Hey everyone! I’m working on a Discord bot and I’m trying to figure out if there’s a way to pull in some stats from GameJolt. What I’m hoping to do is display things like view counts, download numbers, and likes for specific games. Has anyone done something like this before? Is there an API or some other method to grab this info from GameJolt and show it in Discord? I’ve been searching around but haven’t found a clear answer yet. Any tips or pointers would be super helpful! Thanks in advance for any advice you can share.
hey, i’ve messed around with gamejolt’s api before. it’s pretty simple to use for getting game stats. you’ll need to grab an api key from your account settings.
for the discord bot, check out the discord.py library. it works great with the requests module for making api calls.
just watch out for rate limits. maybe set up some caching to avoid hitting them too much. lemme know if u need more help!
I’ve worked with the GameJolt API before, and it’s quite straightforward to use for fetching game stats. You’ll need to register your application on GameJolt to get an API key and secret. Once you have those, you can make HTTP requests to their API endpoints.
For your Discord bot, I’d recommend using a library like aiohttp for making asynchronous API calls. This will help keep your bot responsive while fetching data. You can create functions to retrieve specific stats like views, downloads, and likes for each game.
One important consideration is error handling. Sometimes the API might be slow or unresponsive, so make sure your bot can gracefully handle these situations. Also, consider implementing a caching mechanism to store results temporarily and reduce API calls.
If you need more specific guidance on implementation, feel free to ask. Good luck with your project!
I’ve actually implemented something similar for my gaming community’s Discord server. GameJolt does have an API that you can use to fetch game statistics. You’ll need to obtain an API key from your GameJolt account settings first.
For the Discord bot, I used Discord.py and the requests library to make API calls to GameJolt. The trickiest part was parsing the JSON responses and formatting the data nicely for Discord messages.
One thing to keep in mind is rate limiting. I set up a caching system to store the stats temporarily and update them every few hours instead of making API calls for every request. This helped avoid hitting API limits and improved the bot’s responsiveness.
If you’re comfortable with Python, I’d be happy to share some code snippets that might help you get started. Just let me know if you need any specific guidance on implementation details.