API Key Request for Gamesibeat.com

[gamesibeat]

Hello TheGamesDB team,

I have been using your API for many years. I use your API to retrieve some game data for my site gamesibeat.com. I would like to continue using your API. Would it possible to get an API key?

Thanks,
Gamesibeat

[Zer0xFF]

Hi there,

You've been granted an API key which you can access through this page.
if you used the only API, you should look at the possibility of using the legacy subdomain while changing to the new api.

please check the Announcement forum on regular bases to ensure compliance with any changes or updates.


Regards
Zer0xFF

[gamesibeat]

Thanks so much for the quick response. Ill give it a try.

[gamesibeat]

Hi there,

You've been granted an API key which you can access through this page.
if you used the only API, you should look at the possibility of using the legacy subdomain while changing to the new api.

please check the Announcement forum on regular bases to ensure compliance with any changes or updates.


Regards
Zer0xFF

Okay the key is working for me, but it looks like your still missing a bunch of data in the ByGameID API call. Also, says my key only has 999 calls for a month. Unfortunately I cannot work with that. Since I am a web developer that works on API's for a living I will offer my services if you need help.

Thanks,
Gamesibeat

[Leo_Pride]

Hopefully ZerO can elaborate on usage, but the understanding I've had is that each call can make 20 requests, so 10000 entries with images or 20000 without.

[gamesibeat]

Okay so it looks like you have to specify separate fields when querying a game by ID.

https://api.thegamesdb.net/Games/ByGame ... somestring

The issues I am seeing with having such a low query allowance is that several of the fields just return an ID. Which means you would have to make subsequent queries to get the values of those IDs.

Instead of having to query the developers, publishers, genre and platform again after querying the game. You should be able to add a join to your API call so it can just return all of this data instead of forcing the user to make several more API queries.

Thanks,
Gamesibeat

[Zer0xFF]

there isn't a single API endpoint that returns ID only.

all the `/Games/*` endpoint can be called with `&field=publishers,genres.....etc` so there is almost no need to request ID 1st then the required data, the only time thats required is if you want fan art,banners,clearlogo (all those can be requested at once though) since you can only request those through `/Games/images` endpoint.

also, if you're using this endpoint `/Games/ByGameID?id=1,2,3,4,5,6` you can request as much as URL limit would allow you in 1 request (though each page has a 20 game limit, but the rest will be split into a 2nd page).

lastly, since your project is a website, you should be maintaining your own mirror and only really requesting updates that way you won't be bound by any limits, and we do plan on providing a private key with a finite request limit to create a mirror for uses such as yours.

lastly, just nit picking `id,game_title,release_date,developers` are always included by default so you don't need to specify them.

[gamesibeat]

Yes you are right, I figured out the field parts later. However, I meant that when pulling in a games information instead of a publisher name it pulls in an ID. Thats basically what im talking about making subsequent calls. I could store a mirror of your id's but what if I pull in a new game and it has a new publisher. That would be pretty unrealistic. Same thing with developers and what not. Does that make sense?

P.S. Do you guys have a donation link I can donate to this project?

Thanks,
Gamesibeat

[Zer0xFF]

Yes you are right, I figured out the field parts later. However, I meant that when pulling in a games information instead of a publisher name it pulls in an ID. Thats basically what im talking about making subsequent calls. I could store a mirror of your id's but what if I pull in a new game and it has a new publisher. That would be pretty unrealistic. Same thing with developers and what not. Does that make sense?

ya, but that shouldn't be an issue, since you should be caching the publisher list to start with...
but yes, if a game has a new publisher, you can just request the list again and cache it..
while we don't have every single publisher listed, the current list is over 4000 names, so likely hood of that happening is low that it shouldn't be much of an issue.

either way, my advise is to use the API, try to minimise calls by caching and see whats your request load, when it becomes an issue then let us know, as I think you're getting ahead of yourself right now.

P.S. Do you guys have a donation link I can donate to this project?

not at the moment, but we might look at the possibility of this.

[gamesibeat]

I plan on doing as you mention about just mirroring the API. I will only update it once a week so I shouldn't be making too many calls. If you guys get a donation link let me know id like to contribute in some way to keep this thing going.

Thanks for the support!