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Did they change the rate limits in the last week or so @dtoast ? Now they're set at around 200 requests per hour per endpoint. My app pulls in changes to the database every 8 hours and caches it all, but if there's a decent amount of changes, I get rate limited on the /releases endpoint. My app hasn't been able to complete an update in about 5 days it looks like.

These three all appear to be the same game:

https://www.giantbomb.com/bloons-td-battles/3030-52143/
https://www.giantbomb.com/bloons-td-battles/3030-53584/
https://www.giantbomb.com/bloons-td-battles/3030-51789/

I would say that https://www.giantbomb.com/bloons-td-battles/3030-52143/ is the correct one at this point.

I think the 4 releases of Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions should be deleted from the Final Fantasy Tactics game https://www.giantbomb.com/final-fantasy-tactics/3030-19864/releases/

The War of the Lions has its own page here: https://www.giantbomb.com/final-fantasy-tactics-the-war-of-the-lions/3030-27994/

http://www.giantbomb.com/dragonriders-chronicles-of-pern/3030-45708/
http://www.giantbomb.com/dragon-riders-chronicles-of-pern/3030-6885/

are the same game. I honestly can't tell if the game name should be one or two words. The book series it's based on is one word, but the box art for the game would imply two. Anyway, I think the older of these two entries is the most correct.

@frobie: Found a few more:

Brigador - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-45310/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Orcs Must Die! Unchained - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-46005/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Timespinner - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-47154/?api_key=<key>&format=json
XING: The Land Beyond - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-47452/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Let it Die - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-46574/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Twisted Fusion - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-45816/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Beyond Shadowgate - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-47539/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Dreadnought - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-46585/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Wulverblade - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-46575/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Heroes of Infinity - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-47971/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Viking Squad - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-47934/?api_key=<key>&format=json
Justice Beaver - http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-47210/?api_key=<key>&format=json

All of these had png files for the list of images if that helps any.

Thanks!

@frobie:I'm getting some more weird image issues with the API. I've seen this happen on a couple of games, but here's a specific example:

http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-47680/?api_key=<key>&format=json is endpoint for Super Meatboy Forever.

It returns http://www.giantbomb.com/api/image/scale_large/2676357-7827617660-tumbl.png as the URL for the super_url. However, my code can never grab anything from that URL. If you just punch it into your browser, you get this little error:

Not too sure why it's looking for a jpg when you send it a png in the URL, but I'm getting this error in a browser, and in code.

Hope this is enough info to go on!

@sinistersanatra: You could use the offset parameter to make it seem like you're pulling a random list of games. Just generate a random number between 0 and however many games are in the database - 100. Then use the URL http://www.giantbomb.com/api/games/?api_key=<key>&format=json&offset=<offset> and it will give you 100 games from that offset on. The games are sorted by their ID that is given when added to the database, so they look kind of random if you just grab a slice of 100 games.

@frobie: Very cool. Thank you very much!

Just to follow on with this post, there are some games where the opposite is true. The /game/ detail request returns the wrong images. An example of that is everyone's favorite Bubble Witch 2 Saga. http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-46847/?api_key=<key>&format=json returns a list of JPGs, when they're actually supposed to be PNGs. It seems to be there are very few games where this is the case.

This API is still awesome, there's just some weirdness with the images. I've got workarounds for it on my site, but it would be nice if it got corrected someday.

This is a weird bug. For a few games, the image list that comes back from the /games/ resource is different from what comes back from /game/ resource. It seems like the /games/ resource returns a list of .png files when in reality, the files are supposed to be .jpg files. The /game/ resource returns the correct list of .jpg files.

Here's the example to show this:

http://www.giantbomb.com/api/games/?api_key=<key>&format=json&offset=45800

Search for World of Final Fantasy (3030-50003). The image list it returns is a bunch of .png files, and when you attempt to look at them in a browser, they don't exist (http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_large/14/149021/2759194-9859344256-logo..png is one of the images)

However, if you go to http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-50003/?api_key=<key>&format=json the list of images is correct.

This is happening on more than just this game. Groove Galaxy is another example. It seems to be fairly limited, but something isn't meshing.

Just thought I'd let you guys know.