Giant Bomb

Giant Bomb is a video game database and media platform providing comprehensive data on over 100,000 games, characters, companies, concepts, franchises, locations, objects, and other game-related entities. The Giant Bomb API offers RESTful access to this rich dataset, enabling developers to query and integrate video game information into their applications using simple GET requests authenticated with a personal API key.

Giant Bomb publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Characters API, Companies API, Franchises API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Entertainment, Video Games, Game Database, Gaming, and Media.

The Giant Bomb catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Giant Bomb’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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48.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreeSelf serve⚡ Free to try
9 APIs
EntertainmentVideo GamesGame DatabaseGamingMedia

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 48.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Giant Bomb Characters API

Access to character data

Giant Bomb Companies API

Access to company data

Giant Bomb Franchises API

Access to franchise data

Giant Bomb Games API

Access to video game data

Giant Bomb Platforms API

Access to platform data

Giant Bomb Releases API

Access to game release data

Giant Bomb Reviews API

Access to game reviews

Giant Bomb Search API

Search across all resources

Giant Bomb Videos API

Access to videos

Scroll for all 9

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Giantbomb Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Giantbomb Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Giantbomb Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Giantbomb Context

22 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Giant Bomb API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

ApiResponse

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Game

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Get Games

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Search

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Giantbomb Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Giantbomb Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Giantbomb Agentic Access

17 operations

17 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg
GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: giantbomb
name: Giant Bomb
description: Giant Bomb is a video game database and media platform providing comprehensive data on over 100,000 games, characters,
  companies, concepts, franchises, locations, objects, and other game-related entities. The Giant Bomb API offers RESTful
  access to this rich dataset, enabling developers to query and integrate video game information into their applications using
  simple GET requests authenticated with a personal API key.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Free · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/giantbomb.png
tags:
- Entertainment
- Video Games
- Game Database
- Gaming
- Media
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: giantbomb:giantbomb-characters-api
  name: Giant Bomb Characters API
  description: Access to character data
  humanURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  baseURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api
  tags:
  - Characters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/giantbomb-characters-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
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- aid: giantbomb:giantbomb-companies-api
  name: Giant Bomb Companies API
  description: Access to company data
  humanURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  baseURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api
  tags:
  - Companies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/giantbomb-companies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
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- aid: giantbomb:giantbomb-franchises-api
  name: Giant Bomb Franchises API
  description: Access to franchise data
  humanURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  baseURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api
  tags:
  - Franchises
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/giantbomb-franchises-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: Plans
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  - type: FinOps
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- aid: giantbomb:giantbomb-games-api
  name: Giant Bomb Games API
  description: Access to video game data
  humanURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  baseURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api
  tags:
  - Games
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/giantbomb-games-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/plans/giantbomb-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/finops/giantbomb-finops.yml
- aid: giantbomb:giantbomb-platforms-api
  name: Giant Bomb Platforms API
  description: Access to platform data
  humanURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  baseURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api
  tags:
  - Platforms
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/giantbomb-platforms-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: Plans
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  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/finops/giantbomb-finops.yml
- aid: giantbomb:giantbomb-releases-api
  name: Giant Bomb Releases API
  description: Access to game release data
  humanURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  baseURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api
  tags:
  - Releases
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/giantbomb-releases-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/giantbomb-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/plans/giantbomb-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/finops/giantbomb-finops.yml
- aid: giantbomb:giantbomb-reviews-api
  name: Giant Bomb Reviews API
  description: Access to game reviews
  humanURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  baseURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api
  tags:
  - Reviews
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/giantbomb-reviews-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/giantbomb-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/plans/giantbomb-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/finops/giantbomb-finops.yml
- aid: giantbomb:giantbomb-search-api
  name: Giant Bomb Search API
  description: Search across all resources
  humanURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  baseURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/giantbomb-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: Plans
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  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/finops/giantbomb-finops.yml
- aid: giantbomb:giantbomb-videos-api
  name: Giant Bomb Videos API
  description: Access to videos
  humanURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  baseURL: https://www.giantbomb.com/api
  tags:
  - Videos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/giantbomb-videos-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/giantbomb-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/plans/giantbomb-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/finops/giantbomb-finops.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/giantbomb-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/giantbomb-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/giantbomb-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.giantbomb.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/topics/giantbomb-api
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/giant-bomb/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.giantbomb.com/articles/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.giantbomb.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/giantbomb
- type: Plans
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/plans/giantbomb-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/giantbomb-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giantbomb/refs/heads/main/finops/giantbomb-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com