Online-Go.com Developer Resources

gtp2ogs project and documentation

To connect a bot to the online-go.com servers, you’ll need to use the gtp2ogs project which will allow you to connect a bot that speaks the Go Text Protocol to the online-go.com servers.

Realtime API

Playing games, chatting, accessing the AI review system, and many more features relies on establishing a persistent WebSocket connection to the server and exchanging messages.

The protocol is documented in the Goban project here:

GobanSocket Realtime API documentation

REST API

Creating challenges, adding friends, joining tournaments and ladders, loading tsumego, and many more features are done via REST calls to the REST API.

The REST API documentation is a work in progress.