/v1/game
Game by name or BGG id
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Get an API keyCode snippets
curl "https://api.oanor.com/boardgames-api/v1/game" \ -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/boardgames-api/v1/game", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/boardgames-api/v1/game");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/boardgames-api/v1/game",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)
Example response
A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.
{
"data": {
"game": {
"id": "13",
"url": "https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13/catan",
"name": "Catan",
"rank": 328,
"year": 1995,
"thumbnail": "https://cf.geekdo-images.com/micro/img/e0y6BognJpgqdsgn2mXP5AARp98=/fit-in/64x64/pic2419375.jpg",
"users_rated": 86026,
"bayes_average": 7.032,
"average_rating": 7.19
}
},
"meta": {
"timestamp": "2026-06-09T03:03:50.606Z",
"request_id": "7a422b48-c47a-48ab-babc-1fd0ccc2ba6f"
},
"status": "ok",
"message": "Game retrieved successfully",
"success": true
}