Steam APP Id Field for Games?

[maltenf]

Hi!

Currently Im matching the games between thegamesdb and steam via "Title" with removed special chars, spaces, and uppercase.

A field when we add or modify games here we can fill out for external ids would be handy for that.

So I was wondering if others here were interested in this and if this could be added in a later version?

For example like that in the json:

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{
	"externalIds": {
		"STEAM": "12335465",
		"EPIC": "1322434455",
		"PSN": "3244324334" // not sure about that
		// etc...
	}
}

Best,

Malte

[PeteOC]

This is a good recommendation - I've added it as a feature request on github - https://github.com/TheGamesDB2/Website/issues/34

[Fidelia]

Hi!

Currently Im matching the games between thegamesdb and steam via "Title" with removed special chars, spaces, and uppercase.

A field when we add or modify games here we can fill out for external ids would be handy for that.

So I was wondering if others here were interested in this and if this could be added in a later version?

For example like that in the json:

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{
	"externalIds": {
		"STEAM": "12335465",
		"EPIC": "1322434455",
		"PSN": "3244324334" // not sure about that
		// etc...
	}
}

Best,

Malte

That's a great suggestion! Having a dedicated field to store external IDs for games would be extremely helpful, especially for tasks like the one you're working on - matching games between databases using title information.

[wandering]

It sounds like you're working on improving game matching across databases (TheGamesDB and Steam) based on cleaned-up titles. Having an external ID field would indeed be helpful to streamline the process, making it easier to track and match games across different platforms by their unique identifiers rather than relying solely on the title, which can sometimes be inconsistent.