Examples

Examples

An example request in Java

HttpResponse<JsonNode> response = Unirest.get("https://api-2445582011268.apicast.io/characters/?fields=*&limit=10")
.header("user-key", "YOUR_KEY")
.header("Accept", "application/json")
.asJson();

Get all information from a specific game

/games/1942?fields=*

1942, is the ID of the game.

Get all games from specific genres

/genres/12,9,11?fields=*

Notice you can comma separate multiple IDs (12, 9 and 11). You can do this with games, companies and anything else.

Count total games that have a rating higher than 75

/games/count?filter[rating][gt]=75

Order by popularity

Popularity parameter for games. You can access it like this: /games/?fields=name,popularity&order=popularity:desc

The popularity number is calculated using usage statistics of game pages at https://www.igdb.com

Coming soon games for Playstation 4

/release_dates/?fields=*&filter[platform][eq]=48&order=date:asc&filter[date][gt]=1500619813000

1500619813000: Is the timestamp in miliseconds of today (This you need to generate yourself)
48 Is the platform id of Playstation 4.

‏Source igdb.github.io