Pgn2gif

Create GIFs from PGNs. Also let you download your chess games in PGN format from lichess and chess.com

Inspiration from: dn1z/pgn2gif

Usage

Run pgn2gif with the following options:

Usage: pgn2gif [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Create GIFs from PGNs

Options:
  -p, --path TEXT                 path to the pgn file/folder
  -s, --speed FLOAT               speed with which pieces move in gif.
  -o, --out TEXT                  name of the output folder
  -si, --size INTEGER             size of the gif
  -c, --color [green|blue|brown]  color of chess board
  -g, --game-index INTEGER        index of the game for which gif is to be
                                  made
  --all-games                     make gif of all the games found in a PGN
  --help                          Show help screen.

Commands:
  chess_com  Get games played on chess.com
  lichess    Get games played on lichess

Installation

• You'll need Python3.

Then you can directly install it from pip package:

pip install pgn2gif

• or clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/mzfr/pgn2gif

• Run pip install -r requirements.txt

Examples

Run with Default values

• pgn2gif

* path          current working directory
* speed         0.5
* out           folder name `gifs` in current working directory
* size          480 X 480
* color         Brown
* game-index    1st

Change color of the board to blue

• pgn2gif -c blue

Change color of the board to green

• pgn2gif -c green

Give a PGN file as an input

• pgn2gif -p /home/mzfr/dev/mzfr.pgn

Change the speed of the pieces

• pgn2gif -p /home/mzfr/dev/mzfr-1.pgn -s 0.2

Change the size and speed of the pieces(super fast)

• pgn2gif -si 600 -s 0.1

Change size of the chess board

• pgn2gif -si 680