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RAWG Video Games Database API API

The largest open video games database. ### Why build on RAWG - More than 350,000 games for 50 platforms including mobiles. - Rich metadata: tags, genres, developers, publishers, individual creators, official websites, release dates, Metacritic ratings. - Where to buy: links to digital distribution

Every row below was read from the vendor's own OpenAPI document. The summary text is theirs. What this registry adds is that each operation is indexed with its method, path, base URL and auth scheme, so a search for a capability can answer with a call rather than a name, and that the endpoint is probed on a schedule.

Specifications as held by the APIs.guru corpus, whose newest record is 2023-04-21. Operations the vendor has added since are not listed here; the origin links above are the vendor's own current documents.

base URLs: https://api.rawg.io/api

find it by capability: POST /search {"query":{"text":"..."}} returns these operations with their invocation detail. Connect any agent client.

RAWG Video Games Database API vv1.0

The largest open video games database. ### Why build on RAWG - More than 350,000 games for 50 platforms including mobiles. - Rich metadata: tags, genres, developers, publishers, individual creators, official websites, release dates, Metacritic ratings. - Where to buy: links to digital distribution services - Similar games based on visual similarity. - Player activity data: Steam average playtime

methodpathwhat the vendor says it does
GET/creator-rolesGet a list of creator positions (jobs). creator-roles
GET/creatorsGet a list of game creators. creators
GET/creators/{id}Get details of the creator. creators
GET/developersGet a list of game developers. developers
GET/developers/{id}Get details of the developer. developers
GET/gamesGet a list of games. games
GET/games/{game_pk}/additionsGet a list of DLC's for the game, GOTY and other editions, companion apps, etc. games
GET/games/{game_pk}/development-teamGet a list of individual creators that were part of the development team. games
GET/games/{game_pk}/game-seriesGet a list of games that are part of the same series. games
GET/games/{game_pk}/parent-gamesGet a list of parent games for DLC's and editions. games
GET/games/{game_pk}/screenshotsGet screenshots for the game. games
GET/games/{game_pk}/storesGet links to the stores that sell the game. games
GET/games/{id}Get details of the game. games
GET/games/{id}/achievementsGet a list of game achievements. games
GET/games/{id}/moviesGet a list of game trailers. games
GET/games/{id}/redditGet a list of most recent posts from the game's subreddit. games
GET/games/{id}/suggestedGet a list of visually similar games, available only for business and enterprise API users. games
GET/games/{id}/twitchGet streams on Twitch associated with the game, available only for business and enterprise API users. games
GET/games/{id}/youtubeGet videos from YouTube associated with the game, available only for business and enterprise API users. games
GET/genresGet a list of video game genres. genres
GET/genres/{id}Get details of the genre. genres
GET/platformsGet a list of video game platforms. platforms
GET/platforms/lists/parentsGet a list of parent platforms. For instance, for PS2 and PS4 the “parent platform” is PlayStation. platforms
GET/platforms/{id}Get details of the platform. platforms
GET/publishersGet a list of video game publishers. publishers
GET/publishers/{id}Get details of the publisher. publishers
GET/storesGet a list of video game storefronts. stores
GET/stores/{id}Get details of the store. stores
GET/tagsGet a list of tags. tags
GET/tags/{id}Get details of the tag. tags

specification origin: https://api.rawg.io/docs/?format=openapi

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