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Explore RAWG Video Games Database API

There are two types of companies: hoarders and givers. RAWG is the largest video game database and game discovery service. And we are gladly sharing our 500,000+ games, search, and machine learning recommendations with the world. Learn what the RAWG games database API can do and build something cool with it!

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Adding the API key to your request

You must include an API key with every request. In the following example, replace YOUR_API_KEY with your API key.

GET https://api.rawg.io/api/platforms?key=YOUR_API_KEY
GET https://api.rawg.io/api/games?key=YOUR_API_KEY&dates=2019-09-01,2019-09-30&platforms=18,1,7

Why build on RAWG

500,000+ games for 50 platforms including mobiles

2,100,000
screenshots

1,100,000
ratings

220,000
developers

58,000
tags

45,000
publishers

24,000
people

Comprehensive video game data: descriptions, genres, release dates, links to stores, ESRB-ratings, average playtime, gameplay videos, Metacritic ratings, official websites, system requirements, linked YouTube and Twitch videos, DLCs and franchises.

Where to buy: links to digital distribution services.

Player activity data: Steam average playtime and RAWG player counts and ratings.

Rapidly growing and getting better by user contribution and our algorithms.

Similar games based on computer vision.

Ready to start?

Free

For personal and hobby projects

Get API Key

Non-commercial projects only
500,000+ video games data
up to 20,000 requests per month
Required backlinks to RAWG from pages where the data is used

$149/m.

Business

For small and mid-size companies

Get started

You must sign up first

All in Free Plan
Commercial use
Where to buy links
Similar games
Gameplay videos, relevant twitch and youtube videos
up to 50,000 requests per month
Email support

Enterprise

For projects with custom needs

All in Business Plan
Downloadable file api
up to 1,000,000 requests per month
Custom data requests
Priority email support

Some apps using our API

Yandex uses RAWG to create new and enrich existing reference cards in its search engine results.

The games search in the Erisly bot on Discord. Over 70,000 connected Discord servers use it.

The Reddit recommendations games bot by Laundmo. Over 60,000 redditors can use it.

Terms of Service

Free for personal use as long as you attribute RAWG as the source of the data and/or images and add an active hyperlink from every page where the data of RAWG is used.

Free for commercial use for startups and hobby projects with not more than 100,000 monthly active users or 500,000 page views per month. If your project is larger than that, email us at [email protected] for commercial terms.

No data redistribution. It would not be cool if you used our API to resell our data or make it available for other businesses. In other words, you may use the data with your API access only for your projects.

API Legal Notice: We do not claim ownership of any of the images or data provided by the API. We remove infringing content when properly notified. Any data and/or images one might upload to RAWG is expressly granted a license to use. You are prohibited from using the images and/or data in connection with libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive or otherwise offensive content.

If you have any questions about our API, we'd love to help. Email us at [email protected] or ask the community at our Discord.

Latest updates

ESRB-ratings added to list endpoints for easier filtering based on age rating.
Metacritic can be used as a filtering and sorting option. Filter: https://api.rawg.io/api/games?metacritic=80,100. Sort: https://api.rawg.io/api/games?ordering=-metacritic.
Non-fuzzy search option. To turn off fuzziness: https://api.rawg.io/api/games?search=303%20squadron&search_precise=true. To search by exact term: https://api.rawg.io/api/games?search=303%20squadron&search_exact=true.
API key-based requests signing. The old method of signing with User Agent string will be slowly deprecated.
Last update date added to game details endpoint. Useful to know if there is any new info to grab.
System requirements added to game details endpoint.
Separate Metacritic ratings for each game platform.

API wrappers by our community

All of the libraries are contributed by our users. If you find a bug or missing feature, it's best to contact the author. If you want to submit your wrapper, contact us via [email protected]

Goby dimuska139

Pythonby Laundmo

Pythonby uburuntu

Example usecases

RAWG API is a powerful tool for working with video games data. Below are a few examples of what you can do with the API.

What console games were released last month?

GET https://api.rawg.io/api/platforms # get ids of target platforms
      GET https://api.rawg.io/api/games?dates=2019-09-01,2019-09-30&platforms=18,1,7 # insert platforms ids

What are the most anticipated upcoming games?

GET https://api.rawg.io/api/games?dates=2019-10-10,2020-10-10&ordering=-added

What games were published by Annapurna Interactive in the 2019?

GET https://api.rawg.io/api/developers?search=Annapurna%20Interactive&page_size=1 # get the developer id
      GET https://api.rawg.io/api/games?dates=2019-01-01,2019-12-31&developers=15 # insert developer id

What are the most popular games in 2019?

GET https://api.rawg.io/api/games?dates=2019-01-01,2019-12-31&ordering=-added

What are the highest rated games from 2001?

GET https://api.rawg.io/api/games?dates=2001-01-01,2001-12-31&ordering=-rating

What is the highest rated game by Electronic Arts?

GET https://api.rawg.io/api/developers?search=Electronic%20Arts&page_size=1 # get the developer id
      GET https://api.rawg.io/api/games?ordering=-rating&developers=109 # insert developer id