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:

  "name": "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim",
  "metascritic_score": 94,
  "users_score": 8.3,
  "rating": "M",
  "genres": "Role-Playing",
  "developers": "Bethesda Game Studios",
  "publishers": "Bethesda Softworks",
  "release_date": "Nov 11, 2011",
  "thumbnail_url": "http://static.metacritic.com/images/products/games/7/5988ee04196a686e107b46174f94a3ae-98.jpg",
  "cheat_url": "http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/pc/code/615805.html"
}```

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

{"error":"Page could not be loaded!"}

Code example
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Please, see [example.php](example.php)

Have fun!