Since 23 October I have noticed that V5 Get Top Games endpoint always returns 0 in field “giantbomb_id”. Is it a bug? Or did I miss some announcement?

Twitch no longer use GiantBomb as a games database, they recently moved to IGDB and so don’t maintain references to GiantBomb game IDs. The API returning 0 rather than removing the field from that deprecated endpoint is the safest option and least likely to be a breaking change.

Thank for the information! Now I have one more reason to write some code this weekend :slight_smile:

This uservoice [image] Add the IGDB game ID to the Helix Games Endpoint Now that Twitch is utilizing IGDB instead of Giantbomb. Please add the IGDB Game ID to the Helix Fetch Game endpoint. https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/api/reference#get-games https://api-docs.igdb.com/#game Then we ca…

Apologies for the confusion. It was an oversight during the IGDB migration and we only only posted about this side effect today. [image] Legacy endpoints returning 0 for “giantbomb_id” following IGDB migration Announcements Following Twitch’s migration to IGDB …

Endpoint Top Games from V5 API returns giantbomb_id always 0

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jbulava November 16, 2020, 11:48pm 5

Apologies for the confusion. It was an oversight during the IGDB migration and we only only posted about this side effect today.

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