Hello, I'm trying to make a statistical research on lichess users, but apparently there's no way to pick random players (needed for it). Do you know any?
Sorry but no
We all can get pretty random on occasion.
@giancz91 said in #4:
> Are you everywhere? xD
Yes. MrPushwood is an extremely active forum chatter.
He usually makes great jokes.
> Are you everywhere? xD
Yes. MrPushwood is an extremely active forum chatter.
He usually makes great jokes.
I belive you could iterate trough all players in the api
Apparently to pick a random player is not possible, anyway I just found a very good resource for statistical analysis database.lichess.org/
It should be enough :)
It should be enough :)
@medieroed said in #6:
> I belive you could iterate trough all players in the api
I looked into that, but I didn't found a way.
> I belive you could iterate trough all players in the api
I looked into that, but I didn't found a way.
I suppose a manual and rather rudimentary way of doing this would be to use a random number generator to repeatedly generate values between 1 and 37 (corresponding to A-Z, 0-9, and _ ) and manually construct a username that way, typing it into the search bar on the main page until only a single username appears. (Whether this is statistically sound or not is another matter entirely--that depends on your generator, of course--and this would honestly be a pain to do if you have more than, say, 20 accounts to analyze, but it will probably work otherwise.)
@Nel_S said in #9:
> I suppose a manual and rather rudimentary way of doing this would be to use a random number generator to repeatedly generate values between 1 and 37 (corresponding to A-Z, 0-9, and _ ) and manually construct a username that way, typing it into the search bar on the main page until only a single username appears. (Whether this is statistically sound or not is another matter entirely--that depends on your generator, of course--and this would honestly be a pain to do if you have more than, say, 20 accounts to analyze, but it will probably work otherwise.)
This is unsound if you want a sample of chess users on Lichess because players who choose random sequences of letters and numbers for username might not be representative of chess players as a group. Crazy? Genius? Autistic?
> I suppose a manual and rather rudimentary way of doing this would be to use a random number generator to repeatedly generate values between 1 and 37 (corresponding to A-Z, 0-9, and _ ) and manually construct a username that way, typing it into the search bar on the main page until only a single username appears. (Whether this is statistically sound or not is another matter entirely--that depends on your generator, of course--and this would honestly be a pain to do if you have more than, say, 20 accounts to analyze, but it will probably work otherwise.)
This is unsound if you want a sample of chess users on Lichess because players who choose random sequences of letters and numbers for username might not be representative of chess players as a group. Crazy? Genius? Autistic?
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