cWikiBot/lichess.c

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C

#include "lichess.h"
#include <string.h>
#include <json-c/json_tokener.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
json_object* query_lichess(char* username)
{
/* This function queries the lichess api and returns a pointer to a
* json_object, that contains the profile of the queried player
*/
char* api_base = "https://lichess.org/api/user/";
char user_url[128];
int retries = 5;
strcpy(user_url,api_base);
strcat(user_url,username);
printf("querying %s\n",user_url);
char* http_response = request(user_url);
while(http_response == NULL)
{
printf("didn't receive HTTP response, we might be rate-limited. Waiting 60s");
sleep(60);
http_response = request(user_url);
retries--;
if(retries == 0)
return NULL;
}
json_object *lichessUser = json_tokener_parse(http_response);
json_object *profile = json_object_object_get(lichessUser,"profile");
return profile;
}