Datagamer, to gamers from gamers. Participative video games database, for your web site.
Web site : datagamer.fr - This is the URL for the V1 API in PHP !
Many video games web site maintain their own database. The problem is that no web site gives a free access to their database ! Developers who want to set up video games web site need automatically to build a database.
This new version of the API is full REST, written in Node.js and run with a MongoDb database.
Unlike the v1, this v2 automatically populate itself when users search video games !
THIS V2 IS AVAILABLE ONLINE at http://movie-discover.com:8084/api
*The current release works ONLY with PC platform games /!*
First of all, you need to create a new user. User have an API key needed for every requests !
Request a new user with a POST request :
URL : http:movie-discover.com:8084/api/users
POST data : {name: "username", email: "[email protected]"}
Return : {code, message, user: {name, email, apiKey}}
Once you have your API key, you just need to pass it through the Headers each time to be authenticated.
Example : Return game info with GET request
Headers : {apiKey : b3dae6c0-83a0-4721-9901-bf0ee7011af}
URL : http://movie-discover.com:8084/api/games/by/id/12
Method : GET
URL : /api/users/?skip={skip}&limit={limit}
Return : {code, message, count, skip, limit, users:[{user}]}
Method : GET
URL : /api/users/by/name/{name}
Return : {code, message, count, users:[{user}]}
Method : GET
URL : /api/users/by/id/{id}
Return : {code, message, user}
Method : POST - Only request with no authentication !
URL : /api/users
Form param : {name, email}
Return : {code, message, user}
Method : PUT
URL : /api/users/{id}
Return : {code, message, user}
Method : DELETE
URL : /api/users/{id}
Return : {code, message}
I show only the methods associated with the developer but other objects support the exact same syntax.
Method : GET
URL : /api/developers/?skip={skip}&limit={limit}
Return : {code, message, count, skip, limit, developers:[{developer}]}
Method : GET
URL : /api/developers/by/name/{name}
Return : {code, message, count, developers:[{developer}]}
Method : GET
URL : /api/developers/by/id/{id}
Return : {code, message, developer}
Method : POST - Only Genre object don't have an image attribute.
URL : /api/developers
Form param : {name, image}
Return : {code, message, developer}
Method : PUT - Only Genre object don't have an image attribute.
URL : /api/developers/{id}
Form param : {name, image}
Return : {code, message, developer}
Method : DELETE
URL : /api/developers/{id}
Return : {code, message}
##Game
Method : GET
URL : /api/games/?skip={skip}&limit={limit}
Return : {code, message, count, skip, limit, games:[{game}]}
Method : GET
URL : /api/games/count
Return : {code, message, count}
Method : GET
URL : /api/games/top/{limit}
Return : {code, message, games}
Method : GET
URL : /api/games/similar/by/{percentage}/for/{defaultTile}
Return : {code, message, games:[{game}]}
Method : GET
URL : /api/games/by/defaultTitle/{defaultTitle}
Return : {code, message, count, games:[{game}]}
Method : GET - Return a game with extended information. This method will automatically update the game information if needed.
URL : /api/games/by/id/{id}
Return : {code, message, game}
Method : POST - Only defaultTitle is mandatory !
URL : /api/games
Form params : {defaultTitle, overiew, titles: [{name, countryCode}], releaseDates: [{date, countryCode}], versions: [{number, date, description}], metacritic: {score, url}, editors: [{Editor._id}], developers: [{Developer._id}], genres: [{Genre._id}], platforms: [{Platform._id}], media: {boxArt: {front, rear}, thumbnails[], logos[], banners[], fanArts[], screenshots[], trailers}}
Return : {code, message, game}
**Country code** must be ISO alpha 3 code in uppercase.
Method : PUT
URL : /api/games/{id}
Form params : {defaultTitle, overiew, titles: [{name, countryCode}], releaseDates: [{date, countryCode}], versions: [{number, date, description}], metacritic: {score, url}, editors: [{Editor._id}], developers: [{Developer._id}], genres: [{Genre._id}], platforms: [{Platform._id}], media: {boxArt: {front, rear}, thumbnails[], logos[], banners[], fanArts[], screenshots[], trailers}}
Return : {code, message, game}
Method : DELETE
URL : /api/games/{id}
Return : {code, message}
code: 200, message: Success !
code: 201, message: Success, new resource added !
code: 202, message: Success, existing resource updated !
code: 204, message: Success, no content to return !
code: 304, message: No error but nothing happened here !
code: 400, message: Bad request syntax !
code: 403, message: Invalid API key !
code: 404, message: Resource doesn't exist in database !
code: 410, message: Precondition failed, check header content !
code: 411, message: Mandatory data missing !
code: 412, message: Resource already exist in database !
code: 500, message: Server error !
{name, email, apiKey}
- name : String required
- email : String email format
- apiKey : String auto generated once
{name, image, creationDate, updateDate}
- name : String required
- image : String represent a substainable URL
- creationDate : Date auto generated once
- updateDate : Date auto generated at each update
{name, creationDate, updateDate}
- name : String required
- creationDate : Date auto generated once
- updateDate : Date auto generated at each update
{defaultTitle, overiew, titles: [{name, countryCode}], releaseDates: [{date, countryCode}], versions: [{number, date, description}], metacritic: {score, url}, editors: [{Editor._id}], developers: [{Developer._id}], genres: [{Genre._id}], platforms: [{Platform._id}], media: {boxArt: {front, rear}, thumbnails[], logos[], banners[], fanArts[], screenshots[], trailers}}
- defaultTitle : String required
- overview : String
- titles : Array
- name : String
- countryCode : String ISO Alpha 3 uppercase
- releaseDates :
- date : Date
- countryCode : String ISO Alpha 3 uppercase
- versions :
- number : String
- date : Date
- descriptione : String
- metacritic :
- score : Number
- url : String
- editors : Array of ObjectId, need to be an existing Editor id
- developers : Array of ObjectId, need to be an existing Developer id
- genres : Array of ObjectId, need to be an existing Genre id
- paltforms : Array of ObjectId, need to be an existing Platform id
- media : Array
- boxArt : Array
- front : String
- rear : String
- thumbnails : Array of String
- logos : Array of String
- banners : Array of String
- fanArts : Array of String
- screenshots : Array of String
- trailers : Array of String
- boxArt : Array
- percentage : Number valorized when a games list is return
- creationDate : Date auto generated once
- updateDate : Date auto generated at each update
Datagamer is distributed under the MIT License.
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