Giant Bomb API

Name: Giant Bomb API
Brand: Giant Bomb API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentData EnrichmentData TransformationapiKey17 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Look up video games, platforms, characters, companies, and reviews from the Giant Bomb wiki by GUID or via the unified search endpoint.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the Giant Bomb API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Giant Bomb API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Giant Bomb API.

Search the Giant Bomb catalogue across games, characters, and companies via /search

Fetch a single game record by GUID with full metadata at /game/{guid}/

List platforms and resolve platform details for release tagging

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use Giant Bomb API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Game Discovery and Recommendation

Power game discovery features in apps and websites by searching Giant Bomb's catalogue and pulling structured metadata such as genre, platform, release year, and developer. The /search endpoint accepts a query string and resource filters, and individual records can be fetched by GUID for full detail.

Search Giant Bomb for 'Hollow Knight', take the first result GUID, and fetch the full game record including platforms, developer, and release date

Franchise and Character Research

Build franchise pages, fan wikis, or research datasets by pulling character profiles and the franchises they belong to. Each character record links to appearances and can be cross-referenced against companies and games. Useful for content sites that want structured data without scraping.

Fetch the franchise record for 'The Legend of Zelda' and list every character GUID associated with it

Release Tracking Dashboard

Track upcoming and recent video game releases by polling /releases and joining results to platform and game records. The API returns structured release dates, regions, and platform GUIDs that can be filtered to build a calendar or alerting system.

List all game releases on PlayStation 5 from the last 30 days and return title, release date, and developer

AI Agent Game Knowledge Base

Use Jentic to give an AI assistant grounded answers about video games. The agent issues an intent like 'find information about Baldur's Gate 3', Jentic resolves the Giant Bomb /search call, executes it with the user's API key held in the vault, and returns structured data the agent can summarise.

Through Jentic, search Giant Bomb for 'Baldur's Gate 3', fetch the game GUID, and produce a summary including genre, developer, and aggregated review snippet

Key Endpoints

17 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for giant bomb api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/games/

List or filter games

GET

/game/{guid}/

Fetch a single game by GUID

GET

/search/

Unified search across resources

GET

/platforms/

List platforms

GET

/characters/

List characters

GET

/franchises/

List franchises

GET

/reviews/

List editorial reviews

GET

/games/

List or filter games

GET

/game/{guid}/

Fetch a single game by GUID

GET

/search/

Unified search across resources

GET

/platforms/

List platforms

GET

/characters/

List characters

GET

/franchises/

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your Giant Bomb API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time, which matters because it rides in the query string. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'look up a video game by title' or 'find a game platform', and Jentic returns the matching Giant Bomb operation with its query-parameter schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

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FAQs

Specific to using Giant Bomb API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Giant Bomb API?

Giant Bomb does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Giant Bomb API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

What authentication does the Giant Bomb API use?

Giant Bomb uses a per-user API key passed as the api_key query parameter on every request. Through Jentic the key is held in your encrypted Jentic One instance, so the agent receives a scoped execution token rather than the raw key in its prompt context.

Can I search for a game by title with the Giant Bomb API?

Yes. Call GET /search/ with the query string and a resources filter such as resources=game to return matching games ranked by relevance, then call GET /game/{guid}/ to fetch the full record for any result.

What are the rate limits for the Giant Bomb API?

Giant Bomb enforces 200 requests per resource per hour and asks integrators to identify themselves with a descriptive User-Agent string. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 420; back off and retry after the window resets.

How do I look up a game's release dates with the Giant Bomb API through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'find video game release dates', load the GET /releases/ schema, and execute with a filter such as filter=game:{guid}. The response contains release_date, region, and platform GUIDs you can join back to /platform/{guid}/.

Is the Giant Bomb API free?

Yes. Giant Bomb provides the API at no cost for non-commercial use; commercial usage requires direct permission from Giant Bomb. An API key is created free of charge from any logged-in Giant Bomb account profile page.

What response formats does the Giant Bomb API support?

The API returns JSON by default and also supports XML and JSONP via the format query parameter. Jentic's generated schema models the JSON response shape so agents can deserialise results into typed objects without custom parsing.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Giant Bomb API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One self-hosted, your own rules decide which Giant Bomb operations and credentials the agent may use. The Giant Bomb API is read-only and passes the game guid in the URL path, such as GET /game/{guid}/, so you can pin the agent to a single lookup like fetching one game by guid or restrict it to search and metadata reads across games, platforms, characters, and reviews. There are no write or destructive operations to expose, so the agent can only read the video game data you allow.