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Presumably you just cast the results-object to whatever class corresponds with the API-call you made?

Incidentally, I recommend against posting a topic with a URL in the title (like, say, "MICROTRANSACTION ZONE", but with a dot in the middle...) - you might just set off an automated spam detection system, get all your posts and topics hidden from the forum, lose your ability to contact the moderators, and have to awkwardly sidle up to the Giant Bomb support email... :P

Here's a downscaled screencap of the individual game page:

I've been making a site with the API, and I thought I should show it off in here. Presenting... MICROTRANSACTION ZONE:

If you want a detailed description of what the idea behind the site is, we released a mission statement a while back (Link), but the skinny is as follows:

• We've divided modern video game DLC/microtransactions into several broad categories/"tags"
• Anyone can browse to a game, check off the tags that apply, and write a paragraph or two about exactly how the game's monetization schemes are put together. There's also support for external links, to wiki pages/articles/youtube videos with more information
• Once a submission has been approved/proofread by a moderator (me or my co-founder), it goes live on the site for everyone else to see
• There's also a filtering engine in place, so it's possible to look up "All the [PS4] [First-person shooter games] that have been marked as not having [Randomized real-money loot boxes]"

We're in closed beta right now, polishing off the last few corners before we launch for real. I hope you'll check it out once we open our doors!

Thought I should plug the thing I've been building with the API - presenting MICROTRANSACTION.ZONE:

If you want to read a longer description of the site's purpose and how it'll work, we released a mission statement a while back (Link) but the TL;DR is as follows:

• We've divided modern DLC/microtransactions into several broad categories
• Anyone can look up a game and submit a write-up by ticking off which categories apply, writing a paragraph or two, and maybe adding a few external links with more info
• After it's been verified by me or my partner, it goes live on the site and is available for everyone else to see
• It's also possible to filter by category/genre/platform (i.e. "show me all the [PS4] games in the [First-person shooter] category that have been categorized as not having [Randomized loot boxes]")

Closed beta is happening now to iron out the kinks, get the last stuff sorted, and get feedback from users. We'll probably be launching in a week or so. Hope you'll check it out then!

Even though the /reviews endpoint returns scores on a scale of 1-5, when filtering them, you have to treat them as if they were percentages, where 5 is 100%. So for reviews with score 1, you'd use "&filter=score:20", for reviews with score 2 you'd use "&filter=score:40", etc.

It's not very intuitive. I only know because I randomly clicked on this thread.

I see you already have a user-agent set, so it's not that...

Have you tried changing the API url from HTTP to HTTPS? It redirects automatically, but maybe whatever library you're using is having trouble with that.

Another guess: Try URL-encoding your query variables (e.g. "the%20matrix" instead of "the matrix")

I'm working on a site that only deals in internet-connected games, and so I'm filtering away any games that only exist on consoles that have no internet capabilities (NES, PS1, Game Boy, whatever). It'd be cool if that was a thing you could filter on when calling the /search endpoint - a list of Platform Ids, and then the response you get wouldn't include games that haven't been released on any of those platforms. Disregard, this turned out to not really be a major problem

Something that would be insanely cool, though, would be if I could get "genres" as a field when using the /search endpoint to look up games. Far as I can tell, if I want to include genre information, I have to send off an additional call to the /game endpoint for every result from the /search query. Which is not exactly ideal.

The /games endpoint doesn't return genres either - it seems the (singular) /game endpoint is the only place to get that info.