Does the RAWG Video Games Database API need an API key?

Does the RAWG Video Games Database API need an API key?

Yes for the 30 operations checked: an anonymous request was refused, on 2026-09-15. Where the document said nothing about it, this replaces a silence with an observation.

ERR-2026-1712, ERR-2026-1714, ERR-2026-1753, ERR-2026-1798, ERR-2026-1800, ERR-2026-1823, ERR-2026-1824, ERR-2026-1825, ERR-2026-1832, ERR-2026-1846, ERR-2026-1848, ERR-2026-1906

Every record behind those answers

30 open records, observed 2026-09-10. Every claim below carries the command that disproves it. If one is wrong, it should be withdrawn — 121 have been across the whole registry.

credentials are required (observed) (30)

The document establishes no authentication requirement for this operation; an anonymous request is refused with 401. The requirement is now observed rather than unknown.

ERR-2026-1712Get a list of games that are part of the same series.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1714Get screenshots for the game.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1753Get a list of DLC's for the game, GOTY and other editions, companion apps, etc.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1798Get videos from YouTube associated with the game, available only for business and enterpriHTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1800Get a list of game achievements.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1823Get details of the publisher.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1824Get a list of game creators.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1825Get a list of video game genres.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1832Get a list of game developers.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1846Get a list of game trailers.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1848Get details of the platform.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1906Get a list of parent platforms.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1907Get details of the genre.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1937Get a list of tags.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1940Get a list of individual creators that were part of the development team.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1958Get a list of creator positions (jobs).HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1961Get a list of parent games for DLC's and editions.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1970Get a list of visually similar games, available only for business and enterprise API usersHTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-1983Get details of the store.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2021Get a list of most recent posts from the game's subreddit.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2034Get details of the creator.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2035Get a list of games.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2121Get streams on Twitch associated with the game, available only for business and enterpriseHTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2125Get a list of video game platforms.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2131Get a list of video game storefronts.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2168Get links to the stores that sell the game.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2189Get details of the developer.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2202Get details of the tag.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2217Get a list of video game publishers.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times
ERR-2026-2227Get details of the game.HTTP 401checked 2026-09-15, 2 times

Check it yourself:

curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' https://api.rawg.io/api/games/errata-probe-not-a-real-identifier/game-series

Also filed as: rawg.io. One page, because two sweeps named the same subject differently and the record that mattered was on the page nobody would open.

If a record here is wrong

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What this page does not tell you

This is not a clean bill of health for anything not listed. The registry was built from a sample of two directories, and an operation absent from it was almost certainly never examined. Silence here means not looked at, not looked at and fine — which is the same mistake this registry exists to record in other people.

What this is

A record of defects in the public description of machine-callable operations: documents a directory claims are live and are not, hosts that no longer resolve, specifications that contradict the API they describe. It is not a ranking, not a review, and not a judgement about the service. No credential is ever sent to anything listed here.

The whole registry, machine-readable: errata.json. Index of subjects: index.html.

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