Little Golem API?

What is the preferred way for a program to monitor LG games? Should I just scrape the regular game pages? (e.g. http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=9999999) Or is there a more stable (less likely to change) API for automated monitoring of games?

I would think you'd fetch the PGN-like list of moves, e.g. http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/png.jsp?gid=1367051&gid=1367052

Hmm.. I guess it's more SGF-like than PGN-like.

I use the iPhone site ( http://www.littlegolem.net/iphone/game.jsp?gid=$gid ) for my bot. I remember at one point Richard claiming it was easier on his hardware to generate those.

There must be a database engine behind LG. Probably mySQL. But I am afraid Richard won't be happy with lots of people querying the DB. Even if they do not have privileges to harm it, they may use too much bandwidth.

If your project is interesting for LG, you should ask him and he may give you an account with read-only privileges.

Thanks for the replies. It sounds like my best bet is to scrape the regular game pages and/or use the SGF-ish pages. (The SGF omits some information, like how much time the players have left.)

If it's a list of games in which you're on move that you're after, there's also the XML dump:

http://www.littlegolem.net/get_xml.jsp?login=$LOGIN&password=$PASSWORD

That's interesting! Are there other XML versions? For example, all the games (current and past) for a given player?