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sx4-discord-bot / Sx4

A public discord bot which suits multiple purposes
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Add a search option for games using IGDB #2

Closed ghost closed 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Add a games search option to SX4 and use IGDB since their API is free with no restrictions on data licensing compared to mobygames and the like. There are multiple ways to consume the api and there is already a reference bot that does so.

Describe the solution you'd like

s?igdb <search term> or s?games <search term> brings up a card with info on the search term.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Some bots offer a Steam search option, but it doesn't include console games or games only available by physical copy or through GOG/EGS/Itch/etc.

Currently the bot hosted in their server is only available there. I don't trust myself to self host the reference bot in a secure way.

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Shea4 commented 4 years ago

A similar command to this would be steam search which will search for any game on steam, but I'll look into this as I'm guessing it has more to offer than steams api.

Shea4 commented 4 years ago

This command has been added in https://github.com/sx4-discord-bot/Sx4/commit/888dc91bdbd33a1867137f69e4e4d05d21ae8622 and will be pushed to the main bot on the 1st December

ghost commented 4 years ago

thanks!