Api for Lichess.org extension

Features

• dockerfiles to apt get stockfishapi
• Api scrapes lichess for moves and sends fen to stockfish for evaluation
• Returns best_move

Environment Variables

Name	Description	Required
STOCKFISH_PATH	The path to call Stockfish from the terminal.	True, if Stockfish is not available globally.

Getting Started

1. Ensure python and pip are installed on your machine.
2. Ensure Stockfish is installed on your machine.
3. Ensure the environment variables are set up as needed.
4. Install python dependencies by running pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Run uvicorn main:app --reload to run the project.
6. It is encouraged to run this in a Docker container

Running with Docker

1. Run docker build -t stockfishapi:latest ./
2. Run docker run -p 8080:8080 stockfishapi ensuring the port is exposed.

Deployment

gcloud auth login
export GCP_PROJECT_ID="xyz"
export DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME="name"
export GCR_REGION="us-east4"

gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/${GCP_PROJECT_ID}/${DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME}:<tagname>

gcloud run deploy <cloud_name> --image gcr.io/${GCP_PROJECT_ID}/${DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME}:<tagname>