I've been trying out the IGDB API with python only just recently but I've run into an issue with getting game info. In many cases I only have the IGDB url available for what I'm trying to do, and not the game id, but I can only seem to retrieve info based on the id.
I've tried passing both the url and the slug as parameters, but both give me a syntax error. Here's my code:
token = get_token()
client_id = "my id"
headers = {"Client-ID":client_id, "Authorization":"Bearer " + token['access_token'], "Content-Type":"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
# slug = url.split("/games/")[1]
# data = "fields *, cover.url, videos.video_id, release_dates.human; where slug = '"+slug+"';"
data = "fields *, cover.url, videos.video_id, release_dates.human; where url = '"+url+"';"
response = requests.post("https://api.igdb.com/v4/games", headers=headers, data=data)
game_info = json.loads(response.content.decode('utf-8'))
The response returns a 400 code, and here's the error content it gives in game_info:
[{'title': 'Syntax Error', 'status': 400, 'cause': "Expecting a STRING as input, surround your input with quotes starting at 'https' expecting {'{', 'f', '(', '[', 'true', 't', 'false', 'null', 'n'"}]
The same code works when I use where id = my_game_id. I mainly just need a way to retrieve game info using either the url or slug though, so I'm not sure what I'm missing here.
You must use double quotes. For example:
data = 'fields name; where slug = "'+slug+'";'