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Metacritic API

Using this Metacritic API, you are able to search games on metacritic.com.

It will give you back the metacritic score, users score, genres, rating, developers and much more (see below for an example). The output is in JSON format, so it is easy to parse in both PHP or other languages.

By default it uses the URL prefix: "http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/". If you want to search for Playstation 3 games, just change it to: "http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3". See metacritic.php file.

Example

Searching on the PC game called "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim", will give the following JSON output:

On error

When for some reason the page couldn't be loaded / found or parsed, you will get the following JSON response:

Or when metacritic.php is directly called, without input you will get: {"error": "Game title is empty"}

Code example

Please, see example.php

Another way to access the API is to directly call metacritic.php via the website URL:

Be-aware that the game title needs to be URL encoded to work.

Have fun!

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