About the project
Built for game nights, with clear sources.
Board Games Bot is a free, independent and ad-free Telegram bot for organizing groups, choosing games and recording plays.
Data from BoardGameGeek
Board Games Bot uses the BoardGameGeek XML API to search for games and, when a player asks for it, synchronize their public collection. Game titles, identifiers, publication years, player counts, play times, weights and cover images may come from BoardGameGeek and are cached locally to operate the bot.
Read the official BoardGameGeek XML API Terms of Use and visit BoardGameGeek.
BoardGameGeek and BGG are trademarks of BoardGameGeek, LLC. Board Games Bot is not affiliated with or endorsed by BoardGameGeek.
Other data sources
If BoardGameGeek is temporarily unavailable, the bot may use its local cache or public Wikidata records that include a valid BoardGameGeek identifier. The bot does not scrape BoardGameGeek web pages.
Privacy
- Collection sync is started explicitly by the player and uses their public BoardGameGeek username.
- The public website stores aggregate daily action counts only—no cookies, IP addresses or user-agent strings.
- Group collections, plays and statistics are available only through the bot's Telegram flows and authenticated Mini App.