Searching results

Hello,

I'm working on a C# app and am having a bit of trouble with the search, how do I sort by platform, for instance if i was looking for Fifa99 there are so many different platform versions.

In my app I can add a tick box to platform then can pass the search the console, I tried the below and it doesn't appear to work am I missing something?

http://www.giantbomb.com/api/search/?api_key=KEY&format=json&query="metroid prime"&resources=game,PS1

Cheers

@antrock989: If I understand your problem correctly (ie. you want to filter your game search results by platform), you'll probably have more luck with the games resource. For example, use http://www.giantbomb.com/api/games/?api_key=[KEY]&filter=name:metroid%20prime,platforms:23 to get only GameCube Metroid Prime games.

Edit: although that wouldn't help with FIfa 99, because the releases all fall under one game entry anyway. I'm not sure what the issue with that is.

That's great thank you, ignore the Fifa 99 i just used it as an example and should have checked doh!

BTW where di you find the platform ID list i couldn't see it in the reference docs?

@antrock989: No worries mate. I took it from the platforms list of the game (games: platforms: platform: id). You can search for it straight from the platforms interface too. Like so: http://www.giantbomb.com/api/platforms/?api_key=[KEY]&format=json&filter=name:gamecube&field_list=name,id (It's also the last number in the specific URL's, like 23 in the website URL http://www.giantbomb.com/gamecube/3045-23/)

That great thanks, I thought they out putted as XML looks like i was wrong!

www.giantbomb.com/api/games/?api_key=KEY&format=xml&filter=name:xenogears,platforms:22

does anyone know a list of accepted formats i tried XML

@antrock989: As far as I know it accepts json and xml, not sure if there are more. JSON is enough for most cases anyway.