IGDB Proxy Server API

Is a workaround if you have issues with CORS when accesing the IGDB API for a Web Project by making a Proxy Server

How to use

Backend Setup

• Make sure you have Node JS installed on your machine
• open a terminal in this directory
• modify the .env file with your IGDB API credentials
  • USER_ID is your Client ID from IGDB
  • TOKEN is your Access Token from IGDB
• run npm install to install the dependencies
• run npm run start to start the server

Access from frontend

• Make a fetch request to localhost:3000/fetchIGDBData (default)
  • ApiNode the Endpoint you want to get (games, age_rating...)
    https://api-docs.igdb.com/#endpoints
  • Query: The Query you want to run.
    fields name, rating, rating_count; sort rating_count desc;

Example in Javascript

const ApiNode = "games";
const Query = "fields *; sort rating_count desc;";
try {
  const response = await fetch("http://localhost:3000/fetchIGDBData", {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({ ApiNode, Query }),
  });
  const data = await response.json();
  return data;
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
  return error;
}