Ganonmaster/PyBomb

Python Giant Bomb API Clients

PyBomb

Simple clients for the Giant Bomb API. http://www.giantbomb.com/api/

This will go into version 1.0 when all resources are supported.

Currently Supported Resources:

• games
• game

Install

pip install pybomb

Examples

GamesClient - search

import pybomb

my_key = your_giant_bomb_api_key
games_client = pybomb.GamesClient(my_key)

return_fields = ('id', 'name', 'platforms')
limit = 10
offset = 5
sort_by = 'name'
filter_by = {'platforms': pybomb.PS3}

response = games_client.search(
   filter_by=filter_by,
   return_fields=return_fields,
   sort_by=sort_by,
   desc=True,
   limit=limit,
   offset=offset
)

print response.results
print response.uri
print response.num_page_results
print response.num_total_results

GamesClient - quick_search

import pybomb

my_key = your_giant_bomb_api_key
games_client = pybomb.GamesClient(my_key)

response = games_client.quick_search(
  name='call of duty',
  platform=pybomb.PS3,
  sort_by='original_release_date',
  desc=True
)

print response.results
print response.uri
print response.num_page_results
print response.num_total_results

More examples

To see a working example of Pybomb, take a look at the example project GameSearch https://github.com/steveYeah/gamesearch

Documentation

The full documentation, including more examples can be found at https://pybomb.readthedocs.org