Pulling Reviews for games

Ok, so sorry to seem like an idiot but could someone either add here or point me to some sames for the following:

1) Pulling reviews for all games for a given platform

2) Pulling a review for a specific game

What I do not understand is how I get the ID for a given game to pull a review or just get all reviews for a pltform or game type.

ANy help is much appreciated :)

A game resource exposes reviews if a review has been written. Each review has deck, description, publish_date, reviewer and score available. If you do not yet know the ID of the game, use the search resource to find it.

Platform resources do not list the games that are available on that platform, which means you can't determine which games are available on any given platform using the API unless you retrieve the data for every game (currently over 30000, I believe) and look at its platforms.

@LordAndrew:

Thank you for the help.  If you are using the Search API and are searching for Halo, how can you limit the search so it only looks for exactly Halo and not all games that have Halo in their name?

@LordAndrew:

Thank you again for the help. 

@mldaj:
I am not sure how to get a review for a given game.  I used the search and got the game ID...I then tried the following but it did not work:

http://api.giantbomb.com/review/30986/?api_key=xxxxxxxxxxx&filed_list=game,deck,score&format=xml    

Can someone help me with an example or inform me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks...

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@mldaj:
I am not sure how to get a review for a given game.  I used the search and got the game ID...I then tried the following but it did not work:

 

 

http://api.giantbomb.com/review/30986/?api_key=xxxxxxxxxxx&filed_list=game,deck,score&format=xml    

 

Can someone help me with an example or inform me what I am doing wrong?

 

 

Thanks...

"

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http://api.giantbomb.com/review/30986/?api_key=xxxxxxxxxxx&filed_list=game,deck,score&format=xml    

 

Can someone help me with an example or inform me what I am doing wrong?

"

This issue seems to be fixed, however, considering I'm new to the API I might be missing a step.

I get the game info from its api_detail_url, for example: api.giantbomb.com/game/17463/?api_key=KEY

The response is fine and contains the field:

... <number_of_user_reviews>3</number_of_user_reviews>...

However, the field reviews is empty. How can I get to the individual reviews for a game without its ID?

Thanks in advance.

#9 Posted by elizeu (1 posts) - 1 year, 2 months ago

This issue seems to be fixed, however, considering I'm new to the API I might be missing a step.

I get the game info from its api_detail_url, for example: api.giantbomb.com/game/17463/?api_key=KEY

The response is fine and contains the field:

... <number_of_user_reviews>3</number_of_user_reviews>...

However, the field reviews is empty. How can I get to the individual reviews for a game without its ID?

Thanks in advance.

I'm wondering the same thing..