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IGDB.com

IGDB.com — free tier with API key

🎮 GamesUNMONITORED
AUTH APIKEYCORS ✗AGENT ?HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

IGDB.com exposes a free-tier JSON API. Register for an API key if required; we verified a public or demo endpoint.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://api.igdb.com/v4/games

{
  "message": "Authorization Failure. Have you tried:",
  "Tip 1": "Ensure you are sending Authorization and Client-ID as headers.",
  "Tip 2": "Ensure Authorization value starts with 'Bearer ', including the space",
  "Tip 3": "Ensure Authorization value ends with the App Access Token you generated, NOT your Client Secret.",
  "Docs": "https://api-docs.igdb.com/#authentication",
  "Discord": "https://discord.gg/igdb"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.igdb.com/v4/games"
const res = await fetch("https://api.igdb.com/v4/games");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.igdb.com/v4/games")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 6On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /v4/games awaits first probe
GET/v4/gamesPROBED

IGDB.com — free tier with API key

GET/v4

V4 — documented GET route.

GET/v4/1

V4 details by ID (example: 1).

GET/v4?limit=10

V4 — documented GET route.

GET/v4/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/v4/

V4 — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

IGDB.com: common questions

Is IGDB.com free to use?

Yes — IGDB.com is a free games API. Free tier: Free tier — API key required. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does IGDB.com need an API key?

Yes — IGDB.com needs a free API key, which you pass on each request. Rate limits: Unpublished.

Can I call IGDB.com from the browser?

Not directly — IGDB.com doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is IGDB.com up right now?

IGDB.com is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.