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Itch.io API getting a game's full description

A topic by mccordinator created Jun 14, 2018 Views: 819 Replies: 3
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Hopefully this isn't something I overlooked, but I didn't see it in the documentation. Currently I'm pulling all my games and I get an object for each one with a lot of properties which is great, but the only description of the game I am getting back is on a property called short_text. Is there any way to get the full description for the game??

Current game object I am receiving back per game has these properties (edited to remove personal info):

  1. false
  2. classification:"game"
  3. cover_url:"<img url>"
  4. created_at:"2017-02-03 17:06:46"
  5. downloads_count:0
  6. embed:{fullscreenfalseheight120width640}
  7. has_demo:false
  8. id:9999999
  9. in_press_system:false
  10. min_price:0
  11. p_android:false
  12. p_linux:false
  13. p_osx:false
  14. p_windows:false
  15. published:true
  16. published_at:"2017-02-03 17:29:22"
  17. purchases_count:0
  18. short_text:"Short description of the game"
  19. title:"My Game Title"
  20. type:"html"
  21. url:"<game url>"
  22. user:{ <bunch of user info> }
  23. views_count:140

Would love to be able to get the full "Description" or "Details" for each game.

Admin(+1)

we don't make it available right now. We don't have the full API published and we have very few consumers right now. Could you tell me more about what you're building with the API? Thanks

Thanks for the quick response.
I am just incorporating it in to my personal portfolio site to keep a running log of the games I have made. :)

If you'd like me to not use it for this, I can just keep the data updated locally.

Thanks!

Admin(+1)

That's fine. API changes come slow and carefully, since changes can't be undone. We're probably not going to add something to fetch descriptions right now, so it probably makes more sense or you to add that info in manually.

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