Giant Bomb API
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For Agents
Look up video games, platforms, characters, companies, and reviews from the Giant Bomb wiki by GUID or via the unified search endpoint.
Use for: Search for a video game by title in the Giant Bomb catalogue, Get the full record for a specific game by its GUID, List all platforms a game has been released on, Find all characters that appear in a given franchise
Not supported: Does not handle game purchases, streaming, or user-generated content moderation - use for read-only video game metadata lookups only.
Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Giant Bomb API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The Giant Bomb API exposes structured video game data - games, platforms, characters, companies, franchises, releases, reviews, and videos - drawn from the Giant Bomb wiki. Agents can search the catalogue, fetch detailed records by GUID, and pull review and release metadata to power gaming apps, recommendation engines, or research workflows. Authentication uses a per-user API key passed as a query parameter, and responses are returned in JSON.
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.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fgiantbomb.com%2Fgiantbomb" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fgiantbomb.com%2Fgiantbomb" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic 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
Retrieve character profiles and franchise relationships for gaming wikis
Pull editorial reviews tied to specific game releases
Discover recent video features and trailers from the Giant Bomb video archive
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/
List franchises
GET
/reviews/
List editorial reviews
Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring the Giant Bomb API by hand means registering for a key, appending it to the query string of every request to giantbomb.com/api, and formatting the resource guids yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import the Giant Bomb API from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
Giant Bomb is read-only and puts the game guid in the URL path (/game/{guid}/), so a rule can pin your agent to looking up one game by guid. You choose the operations it may call, and this API exposes only metadata reads, with no write or destructive actions to include.
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.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
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.
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