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Seen a lot of talk of people wondering what to do with their premium subscriptions.

Personally, I'm on an annual recurring subscription and have done since subbing.

I'm optimistic and excited for the new Giant Bomb we'll be seeing while being sad at the end of an era.

So as a reminder, all these 13 years of content we've all loved is right here on this website, I'm personally going to be spending the slow month of may revisiting beloved content and some things I missed out on.

• Project B.E.A.S.T
• Old mailbags
• Old I love Mondays
• GOTY Skits
• How to build a Bomb
• UPFs
• Metal Gear Scanlon ( I skipped the MGSV season )
• Too Human: Video Thing
• Six Scary Frights

There's honestly too many things to list off the top of my head. I've absolutely loved the nostalgia and chaos of old giant bomb content, but it's really worth seeing how they've all grown still putting out top tier content.

Hey Duders!

Today I finally got around to wrapping up a little side project I've been working on that the recent site redesign inspired me to do! I still need to workshop the name, but currently I've dubbed it Gatsby Bomb. https://gatsbybomb.netlify.com/

It's a Progressive Web App built in Gatsby V2 thats strictly just for watching videos that are linked to a giant bomb show, split up into seasons. It currently only has a smaller subset of giantbomb shows. You can search videos and shows by name, watch GB Infinite, and whatever is currently live (This is pretty experimental and might not work on mobile :( ).

I'd be happy to go into some details in how it's built if anyone is interested! :)

It's built to be really fast and was super fun to build. It uses the embedded player for videos so as long as you're logged into giantbomb.com on your device, you should be able to watch premium videos and things like continue watching should still function.

Hoping to add more things and tighten up the design as it is still a work in progress, let me know what you guys think!

Disclaimer: This is by all means not trying to replace watching videos on giantbomb, the engineering team continues to push out a dope website that looks great and functions great for viewing the content!

Okay, practically found my answer last night for both questions.

The reason why I couldn't get certain videos was because I wasn't using an account with a premium subscription, so i was only able to grab non premium videos.

As for the seasons question, Shout out to @danauer and @wcarle talking about it on the second episode of the GiantDevCast (highly recommend giving a listen).

To paraphrase and hopefully not accidentally mislead people, Show seasons seem to be for the most part separated by the year of the publish_date for a video, with a few exceptions on certain shows like This Is The Run being more seasonal by the game they are playing. I was able to use the associations field from a video to create the season split, though I had to specify specific shows to do that since there's no explicit data point that I could see to decide that.

Hope this wasn't wrong and helps other duders out!

Hey everyone, Web developer / ReactJS fanboy here,

I was messing around with Gatsby building a micro GB PWA only focused on videos in shows. I'm able to grab all the shows from the API no problem, though for certain videos API calls with a show filter responds with incomplete data.

Example

https://www.giantbomb.com/api/videos/?api_key=<APIKEY>&format=JSON&filter=video_show:9

{

"error": "OK",

"limit": 100,

"offset": 0,

"number_of_page_results": 0,

"number_of_total_results": 0,

"status_code": 1,

"results": [

],

"version": "1.0"

}

Also with the new re design video_show pages have dropdown menus to select "seasons", I noticed there doesn't seem to be any data of this open to the API.

Is there something I'm missing or do things just still need to be transitioned over to the new show focused data?

Any insight would be very helpful, just looking to build a cool thing with some cool content I follow.

Cheers,