RAWG
DATA · DATA & ANALYTICS
Game, platform, genre, and developer data from RAWG, whose terms require visible credit.
Connecting RAWG in practice
RAWG’s free key allows 20,000 requests a month and is licensed for non-commercial projects only, with an active hyperlink back to RAWG required from every page that displays its data. Commercial use starts at $149 a month for 50,000 requests, and the key travels as a ?key= query parameter — the form that ends up in referrer headers and proxy logs.
Scopes that draw scrutiny
key (query parameter)The only credential. It has no scopes and exists for quota accounting, but RAWG warns that requests without it may be banned, and a key in the query string leaks into logs.
Rate limits
- Free tier: up to 20,000 requests per month, non-commercial projects only.
- Business, $149/month: up to 50,000 requests per month.
- Enterprise: up to 1,000,000 requests per month, plus a downloadable file API.
- Commercial use is free below 100,000 monthly active users or 500,000 page views per month; above that RAWG requires commercial terms.
Worth knowing
- Attribution is a licence condition, not a courtesy: RAWG requires credit and an active hyperlink from every page where its data or images appear.
- No data redistribution and no cloning — you may not resell the data or make it available to other businesses, which rules out caching it into a shared dataset for customers.
- The whole surface is 30 paths on one host (api.rawg.io/api), so there is no separate sandbox or staging key to develop against.
Checked against RAWG API docs and pricing (2026-09-29), RAWG OpenAPI schema (2026-09-29)
What an agent can do
Each action is granted on its own. An agent allowed to read is not thereby allowed to write, and the scope beside each row is what the acting user must have connected for it to run at all.
Often connected alongside
Put RAWG behind one governed endpoint.
Same permissions, same audit trail, whatever else you connect next.