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Web API for Ratings

A topic by NightBlade created Apr 07, 2021 Views: 765 Replies: 3

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I wrote a script to list ratings/reviews for multiple games on Steam, and I would like to build something similar for Itch.

Steam currently has a free (non-login-required) API you can poke to get ratings information for any of the ratings/reviews on your games. It doesn't require an OAuth token or anything, it's just a public-facing API. Here's a sample URL that shows reviews for my Steam game: https://store.steampowered.com/appreviews/1342600?json=1&filter=recent&num_per_p...

Is there any such thing on Itch, or any plans to make one? I checked all the API docs but didn't see anything.

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leafoAdmin4 years ago(+2)

Maybe at some point but we don’t have this right now. Reviews currently aren’t publicly browsable for games, they are only visible by followers of the accounts that create the reviews, and by the game developers. We’d like to make some updates to how the reviews system works before opening things up more.

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Hugh Lashbrooke275 days ago

I know this thread is a few years old now, but I was wondering if this is an area that had moved forward at all. Is there a chance you will be adding ratings and reviews to the API soon, or a timeline for when you think it might be implemented?

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a1s18 days ago

There is already a shitty way to get all reviews/ratings from Itch. I will not explain how (so I don't get banned by angry devs,) but I will hint that https://itch.freezing.top/feed?filter=ratings is a feed of all ratings, and doesn't require you to be logged it. Have fun.

P.S. Anyone who can scrape reviews with the hint was going to figure this out anyway.

P.P.S. Guys, either restrict reviews to be "friends only" (or even "author only") or make a normal API - this is silly.

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