/itchio/games/search

POST /api/itchio/games/search

Price: 5 credits

Search and browse itch.io games by keyword and/or filters (sort, genre, tag, platform, pricing). Each result carries id, alias, name, url, author, tagline, genre, platforms, price, is_free, is_on_sale, image and rating.

How to use it

Search itch.io games by a keyword (query) or browse with filters: sort (new-and-popular/top-rated/top-sellers/newest), genre, tag, platform (windows/macos/linux/android/web) and pricing (free/paid/on-sale). At least a query or one filter is required; count is how many games to return. Each item has id, alias (slug), name, url, author, author_url, tagline, genre, platforms, price (in the smallest currency unit, e.g. cents), is_free, is_on_sale, image and rating (value/count).

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string nullable — Keyword to search games by (examples: "puzzle", "horror"; minLength: 1)
• sort string nullable — Ordering for browsing games (one of: "new-and-popular", "top-rated", "top-sellers", "newest")
• genre string nullable — Filter by genre (one of: "action", "adventure", "platformer", "puzzle", "rpg", "shooter", "simulation", "sports", "strategy", "visual-novel", "other")
• tag string nullable — Filter by tag (e.g. pixel-art, horror) (minLength: 1)
• platform string nullable — Filter by supported platform (one of: "windows", "osx", "linux", "android", "web")
• pricing string nullable — Filter by pricing (one of: "free", "paid", "on-sale")
• count integer required — Max number of games to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "ItchioGameSearchResult")
• id integer required
• alias string nullable
• name string nullable
• url string nullable
• author string nullable
• author_url string nullable
• tagline string nullable
• genre string nullable
• platforms array (default: [])
• price integer nullable
• is_free boolean (default: false)
• is_on_sale boolean (default: false)
• image string nullable
• rating object nullable
  • @type string (default: "ItchioGameRating")
  • value number nullable
  • count integer nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit 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 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 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 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 Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response 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.