Trouble fetching user reviews for a game

Hi,

I'm having some trouble fetching user reviews for a game. Here's what I'm doing, if anyone can please tell me what I'm doing wrong:

* Suppose I want to fetch user reviews for 'Alien: Isolation' for the PC.

1. Search for the game by title and platform: http://www.giantbomb.com/api/games?api_key=[key]&format=json&filter=name%3AAlien%3A+Isolation%2Cplatforms%3A94&field_list=api_detail_url

1.1. The reply contains the following apiDetailsUrl: http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-44296/

2. Get specific details from the api url: http://www.giantbomb.com/api/game/3030-44296/?api_key=[key]&format=json&field_list=id

2.1. The reply contains the following game_id: 44296

3. Get user reviews for game by id: http://www.giantbomb.com/api/user_reviews?api_key=[key]&format=json&game=44296

3.1 The results are empty. According to the API doc, adding &game=[game_id] should do exactly what I want. The game definitely has user reviews (http://www.giantbomb.com/alien-isolation/3030-44296/user-reviews/).

3.2 Also the API doc seems to be out of date: http://www.giantbomb.com/api/documentation#toc-0-43 One of the fields returned is called 'game'. First of all, it doesn't state whether 'game' is the title or the id of the game, but by trying a few different calls it seems that it's the title. However, in all the examples I tried, the field 'game' was never returned, and instead I got a field called 'wikiObject'. This is not mentioned in the doc anywhere.

3.3 I tried filtering by the game id with the following requests: &game=[game_id] or &filter:game=[game_id] or &filter:object=[game_id] or &filter:wikiObject=[game_id]. None of these worked.

Am I doing something completely wrong or is there a problem with the API?

Regards,

Yevgeny.

You ever figure this out?

Registered to ask same question.

I just want to get average review scores for games (guessing by doing average calculation myself)

Bumping this up because I'm running into this same issue still, and have also tried everything in the initial post.

I was also experimenting with fetching staff reviews for games (to see if this was specifically an issue with user reviews), and was able to fetch specific reviews with a &filter=game:[game name], even though the API docs say to switch "game" to "object" when using it in filters. However, this did not translate back to user_reviews.

Bump!

I guess the endpoint is returning all user review results for all games? It's saying that there are 28K+ results total.

EDIT: Found answer here - http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/api-developers-3017/q-how-to-query-user-reviews-via-the-api-for-a-game-1454356/

I can't figure this out either. Trying to fetch user reviews gets me either every single user review for every game, or none at all.

If I use filter=object:3030-15473 (for Metroid Prime) I get 0 review yet the page displays 18 user reviews. (http://www.giantbomb.com/metroid-prime/3030-15473/user-reviews/)

If I do filter=game:3030-15473 I get all 28K+ results.

All I really want is the aggregate score that's displayed on the game page, but I can't find that in the API so I was going to average them by hand...