# HowLongToBeat

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/howlongtobeat/  
**Website:** https://howlongtobeat.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

HowLongToBeat is a game completion time database that tracks how long it takes to finish thousands of video games. Community-sourced data provides average completion times across multiple play styles including main story, main story plus extras, completionist, and all styles. The site is owned by IGN Entertainment (Ziff Davis) and does not publish an official public API; all programmatic access relies on community-built wrappers that query the website directly.

## Kin Score — 19.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **HowLongToBeat API** — Community-accessible interface to HowLongToBeat game completion time data. Provides search-by-game-name and game-detail lookups returning main story, main story plus extras, com...

## Security (1)

- **Howlongtobeat Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Games, Video Games, Game Completion Times, Game Database, Community Data

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/howlongtobeat/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.