Epic Games APIstore.epicgames.com ↗
Access Epic Games Store data: free games, catalog browsing, game details, search, discounts, genres, news, and homepage features via 12 structured endpoints.
What is the Epic Games API?
The Epic Games Store API provides 12 endpoints covering the full EGS catalog — from free game promotions via get_free_games to detailed product data via get_game_details, which returns title, price, genres, features, ESRB rating, star rating, developer, publisher, and description in a single call. You can browse the full catalog with pagination, filter to discounted titles, search by keyword, and pull homepage sections like the featured carousel and top new releases.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/af5648f3-99a5-49a7-a148-2369345fc030/get_discover_something_new' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Returns games from the Discover Something New section on the Epic Games Store homepage. These are recently highlighted or newly released titles with pricing and badges.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"items": "array of game objects with title, price_label, badge, image_url, product_url, timestamp"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"items": [
{
"badge": null,
"title": "ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies",
"image_url": "https://cdn1.epicgames.com/spt-assets/4b09c4deba1d4d36acdcd079dfe698ff/zero-parades-11fr0.jpg",
"timestamp": "2026-06-11T03:02:37.849987+00:00",
"price_label": "$39.99",
"product_url": "https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/zero-parades-ed90f8"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the Epic Games API
Free Games and Promotions
The get_free_games endpoint returns every active and upcoming free game from Epic's weekly promotion, including each game's status (FREE NOW or COMING SOON), offer_date_range, image_url, and product_url. For tighter use cases, get_free_games_now and get_free_games_coming_soon filter that list to a single status. The promotion list refreshes weekly, so polling once or twice per day is sufficient to catch transitions.
Catalog Browsing and Search
browse_games accepts tag, category, sort_by, sort_dir, count, and start parameters, returning paginated CatalogGame objects with title, price, original_price, discount_percentage, image_url, product_url, and offer_type, plus a total count for building pagination controls. The category parameter accepts values like games/edition/base, Game, or Apps; omitting tag returns all games. browse_discounted_games mirrors this interface but restricts results to titles currently on sale. search_games takes a query string and returns up to 20 results ranked by relevancy, each with title, type, price, and product_url.
Game Details and Metadata
get_game_details accepts a game_slug — the URL slug from an EGS product page, such as fortnite or ghostrunner-2 — and returns the most complete record in the API: description, genres (array), features (array), developer, publisher, price, esrb_rating, and star_rating out of 5. The star_rating and esrb_rating fields may be null if Epic has not published that data for the title.
Homepage Sections and News
Three endpoints cover EGS editorial surfaces: get_homepage_featured returns the hero carousel with title, tagline, badge, image_url, and product_url; get_discover_something_new returns recently highlighted titles with price_label and badge; and get_top_new_releases returns curated new releases with price. get_news covers the EGS news section, returning article title, summary, date, category, image_url, and url. get_popular_genres returns genre name, slug, and image_url for the categories shown on the EGS browse page.
The Epic Games API is a managed, monitored endpoint for store.epicgames.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when store.epicgames.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official store.epicgames.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Track the weekly free game rotation and notify users when a new title goes FREE NOW using get_free_games_now
- Build a deal-finder dashboard by paginating browse_discounted_games and sorting by discount_percentage
- Populate a game info card with genres, features, ESRB rating, star rating, and publisher via get_game_details
- Monitor the EGS homepage carousel for new featured promotions using get_homepage_featured
- Feed a content aggregator with Epic's latest news articles including title, date, and category from get_news
- Display genre thumbnails and slugs for category navigation by calling get_popular_genres
- Search the EGS catalog by keyword and display price and product URL using search_games
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 200 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
| Team | $300/mo | 20,000 | 300 req/min |
| Company | $1,000/mo | 100,000 | 500 req/min |
Each endpoint has a fixed posted price per successful call — most fall between 1 and 10 credits — shown on this API's page before you run it. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Epic Games have an official public developer API?+
What does get_game_details return, and how do I identify the right game_slug?+
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ghostrunner-2 is ghostrunner-2. Slugs can be extracted from product_url fields returned by browse_games, search_games, or the homepage endpoints.How does pagination work in browse_games and browse_discounted_games?+
start parameter (0-based) and a count parameter for page size. The response includes a total field indicating the full number of matching items, so you can calculate the number of pages as ceil(total / count) and iterate by incrementing start by count each request.Does the API expose user reviews, individual review text, or wish-list data?+
star_rating from get_game_details but does not expose individual review text, user-submitted reviews, or wish-list data. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add an endpoint targeting per-game user review content.Are DLC, add-ons, or bundles returned separately from base games?+
browse_games and browse_discounted_games endpoints include an offer_type field on each result that identifies the content type. The category parameter also accepts values like games/edition/base to filter to base editions. DLC and bundles may appear when broader category values are used. Dedicated filtering by DLC alone is not a built-in preset — you can fork the API on Parse and revise it to add that filter.