Since 23 October I have noticed that V5 Get Top Games endpoint always returns 0 in field “giantbomb_id”. Is it a bug? Or did I miss some announcement?

Twitch no longer use GiantBomb as a games database, they recently moved to IGDB and so don’t maintain references to GiantBomb game IDs. The API returning 0 rather than removing the field from that deprecated endpoint is the safest option and least likely to be a breaking change.

Endpoint Top Games from V5 API returns giantbomb_id always 0

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jbulava November 16, 2020, 11:48pm 5

Apologies for the confusion. It was an oversight during the IGDB migration and we only only posted about this side effect today.

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