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API Key Request for Upcoming Project

Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2020 6:18 pm
by AgentEnder
Hey!

I am working on a project that will allow users to login and rate game compatibility across systems. I would like to have a good autocomplete search for game titles, and believe that this API should be one of the best solutions.

The site will allow search by platform as well. The API would only be hit if a user's search does not hit any current results in the projects database, which would be used as a first layer.

I would also like to use the game image capability for displaying on the rating pages.

Thanks!
Craigory

Re: API Key Request for Upcoming Project

Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 3:15 am
by edirol
Hello.

You've been granted an API key which you can access through this page.
Please check the Announcements forum on a regular basis to ensure compliance with any changes or updates.
Documentation is available here.

Good luck!

Re: API Key Request for Upcoming Project

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:02 am
by AgentEnder
How should I go about making requests given that the server does not indicate cross origin requests are OK?

I am building a web app, and chrome blocks the calls.
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Re: API Key Request for Upcoming Project

Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:06 am
by Zer0xFF
Hi @AgentEnder,

At this moment, we have no plan to enable CORS.

But i do have few comments about what you're doing,
1) If we're not the 1st layer, thats great, but a better solution, instead of requesting this info client side, you should do it server side, and then you can update that 1st layer with the results.
2) using our api for autocomplete is not a great idea, we just dont have the resources to recieve 17 requests, because a user is typing in final fantasy, and to prevent this type of pattern, we have a monthly api limit.
3) if you want an autocomplete feature based on our database, you're free to use the weekly json/mysql dump and build an elastic search based on it, and can then ofc keep that database updated using the update api endpoint.