# /isthereanydeal/games/search

`POST /api/isthereanydeal/games/search`

Price: 5 credits

Search and filter PC game deals on IsThereAnyDeal: browse current deals or all games with an extensive filter set (store, product type, platform, DRM, tags, price and discount range, deal flag, review scores) and sorting. Each result carries the game with its current best price, discount, store and all current per-store offers.

## How to use it

Search/browse PC game deals on IsThereAnyDeal. Provide keyword to search games by name, or omit it to browse deals with filters. Set count and deals_only (true = only games on sale, false = all games). Filter by shops, product_types, platforms, drm, tags, price_min/price_max, cut_min/cut_max (discount %), flag (N/H/S), steam_rating_min, metacritic_min, opencritic_min; order with sort; set country and currency. Each result has the game (id, slug, game_title, type), its best current price, cut, shop and flag, plus deals (every current per-store offer).

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of games to return (min: 1)
- `keyword` (string, nullable) — Search games by name (filters below are ignored when set)
- `deals_only` (boolean) — Only games with an active deal, else browse all games (default: true)
- `shops` (array, nullable) — Restrict to these stores (one of: "Steam", "Epic Game Store", "GOG", "Humble Store", "Fanatical", "GreenManGaming", "GamesPlanet US", "GamesPlanet UK", "GamesPlanet DE", "GamesPlanet FR", "GameBillet", "GamersGate", "WinGameStore", "MacGameStore", "Microsoft Store", "Ubisoft Store", "EA Store", "itch.io", "IndieGala Store", "AllYouPlay", "Nuuvem", "Voidu", "DLGamer", "Noctre", "GamesPlanet US", "Amazon", "Playsum")
- `product_types` (array, nullable) — Restrict to these product types (one of: "game", "dlc", "package", "software", "hardware")
- `platforms` (array, nullable) — Restrict to these platforms (one of: "windows", "mac", "linux")
- `drm` (array, nullable) — Restrict to these DRM/activation platforms (one of: "drm_free", "Steam", "Epic Game Store", "GOG", "Ubisoft Store", "EA Store", "Microsoft Store", "itch.io")
- `tags` (array, nullable) — Restrict to games having all these tags
- `price_min` (number, nullable) — Minimum current price (min: 0)
- `price_max` (number, nullable) — Maximum current price (min: 0)
- `cut_min` (integer, nullable) — Minimum discount percent (min: 0; max: 100)
- `cut_max` (integer, nullable) — Maximum discount percent (min: 0; max: 100)
- `flag` (string, nullable) — Deal flag: N new low, H historical low, S store low (one of: "N", "H", "S")
- `steam_rating_min` (integer, nullable) — Minimum Steam review score percent (min: 0; max: 100)
- `metacritic_min` (integer, nullable) — Minimum Metacritic score (min: 0; max: 100)
- `opencritic_min` (integer, nullable) — Minimum OpenCritic score (min: 0; max: 100)
- `sort` (string) — Sort order (default: "-hot"; one of: "-hot", "-time", "-cut", "price", "expiry", "-release-date", "rank", "-waitlisted", "-collected", "-steam-players", "-steam-reviews", "-steam-reviews-count", "-opencritic", "-metacritic", "-metacritic-user")
- `show_mature` (boolean) — Include mature games (default: false)
- `country` (string) — Store region, drives shops and prices (default: "US"; one of: "AD", "AE", "AF", "AG", "AI", "AL", "AM", "AO", "AR", "AT", "AU", "AW", "AZ", "BA", "BB", "BD", "BE", "BF", "BG", "BH", "BI", "BJ", "BM", "BN", "BO", "BR", "BS", "BT", "BW", "BY", "BZ", "CA", "CD", "CG", "CH", "CI", "CL", "CM", "CN", "CO", "CR", "CV", "CY", "CZ", "DE", "DJ", "DK", "DM", "DO", "DZ", "EC", "EE", "EG", "ER", "ES", "ET", "FI", "FJ", "FR", "GA", "GB", "GD", "GE", "GH", "GM", "GN", "GR", "GT", "GW", "GY", "HK", "HN", "HR", "HT", "HU", "ID", "IE", "IL", "IN", "IQ", "IS", "IT", "JM", "JO", "JP", "KE", "KG", "KH", "KM", "KN", "KR", "KW", "KY", "KZ", "LA", "LB", "LC", "LI", "LK", "LR", "LS", "LT", "LU", "LV", "LY", "MA", "MC", "MD", "ME", "MG", "MK", "ML", "MM", "MN", "MO", "MR", "MT", "MU", "MV", "MW", "MX", "MY", "MZ", "NA", "NE", "NG", "NI", "NL", "NO", "NP", "NZ", "OM", "PA", "PE", "PG", "PH", "PK", "PL", "PT", "PY", "QA", "RO", "RS", "RU", "RW", "SA", "SB", "SC", "SD", "SE", "SG", "SI", "SK", "SL", "SN", "SR", "ST", "SV", "SZ", "TC", "TD", "TG", "TH", "TJ", "TL", "TM", "TN", "TO", "TR", "TT", "TW", "TZ", "UA", "UG", "US", "UY", "UZ", "VC", "VE", "VN", "VU", "WS", "YE", "ZA", "ZM", "ZW")
- `currency` (string) — Currency for prices (default: "USD"; one of: "AED", "ARS", "AUD", "BGN", "BRL", "CAD", "CHF", "CLP", "CNY", "COP", "CRC", "CZK", "DKK", "EUR", "GBP", "HKD", "HUF", "IDR", "ILS", "INR", "JPY", "KRW", "KWD", "KZT", "MXN", "MYR", "NOK", "NZD", "PEN", "PHP", "PLN", "QAR", "RON", "RUB", "SAR", "SEK", "SGD", "THB", "TRY", "TWD", "UAH", "USD", "UYU", "VND", "ZAR")

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "ItadSearchResult")
- `id` (string, required)
- `slug` (string, nullable)
- `game_title` (string, nullable)
- `type` (string, nullable)
- `is_mature` (boolean) (default: false)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `banner` (string, nullable)
- `has_achievements` (boolean) (default: false)
- `has_trading_cards` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_early_access` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_pre_order` (boolean) (default: false)
- `cut` (integer, nullable)
- `price` (number, nullable)
- `price_old` (number, nullable)
- `currency` (string, nullable)
- `shop` (string, nullable)
- `flag` (string, nullable)
- `url` (string, nullable)
- `deals` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "ItadDeal")
  - `shop` (string, nullable)
  - `shop_id` (integer, nullable)
  - `url` (string, nullable)
  - `cut` (integer, nullable)
  - `price` (number, nullable)
  - `price_old` (number, nullable)
  - `currency` (string, nullable)
  - `store_low` (number, nullable)
  - `history_low` (number, nullable)
  - `flag` (string, nullable)
  - `voucher` (string, nullable)
  - `promo` (string, nullable)
  - `is_drm_free` (boolean) (default: false)
  - `drm` (array) (default: [])
  - `platforms` (array) (default: [])
  - `added_at` (integer, nullable)
  - `expiry_at` (integer, nullable)
  - `voucher_offers` (array) (default: [])
    - `@type` (string) (default: "ItadVoucherOffer")
    - `cut` (integer, nullable)
    - `price` (number, nullable)
    - `currency` (string, nullable)
    - `voucher` (string, nullable)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.

### 412

The entity was not found, or a precondition failed

What to do: Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.

### 429

Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted

What to do: When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.

### 500

Something broke on our side

What to do: Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.

### 529

Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these headers:

- `X-Error` — Error message text (present only on error)
- `X-Request-ID` — Unique request identifier
- `X-Execution-Time` — Execution time in seconds
- `X-Result-Count` — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
- `X-Total-Available-Results` — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
- `X-Warning` — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
- `X-Retry-After` — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.