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Inactive Claims

A call to this endpoint returns information about all (1000 max) achievement set development claims of a specified kind: completed, dropped, or expired.

HTTP Request

GET

https://retroachievements.org/API/API_GetClaims.php?k=1

Query Parameters

NameRequired?Description
yYesYour web API key.
kThe desired claim kind: 1 (completed), 2 (dropped), or 3 (expired). Defaults to 1.

Client Library

ts
import { buildAuthorization, getClaims } from "@retroachievements/api";

// First, build your authorization object.
const username = "<your username on RA>";
const webApiKey = "<your web API key>";

const authorization = buildAuthorization({ username, webApiKey });

// Then, make the API call.
const claims = await getClaims(authorization, { claimKind: "completed" });
kotlin
val credentials = RetroCredentials("<username>", "<web api key>")
val api: RetroInterface = RetroClient(credentials).api

val response: NetworkResponse<GetClaims.Response, ErrorResponse> = api.getClaims(
    claimKind = 2
)

if (response is NetworkResponse.Success) {
    // handle the data
    val claims: GetClaims.Response = response.body

} else if (response is NetworkResponse.Error) {
    // if the server returns an error it be found here
    val errorResponse: ErrorResponse? = response.body

    // if the api (locally) had an internal error, it'll be found here
    val internalError: Throwable? = response.error
}

Response

json
[
  {
    "ID": 11245,
    "User": "kmpers",
    "GameID": 24541,
    "GameTitle": "GP World",
    "GameIcon": "/Images/076324.png",
    "ConsoleID": 33,
    "ConsoleName": "SG-1000",
    "ClaimType": 0,
    "SetType": 1,
    "Status": 1,
    "Extension": 0,
    "Special": 1,
    "Created": "2023-10-27 22:30:49",
    "DoneTime": "2023-10-27 23:21:12",
    "Updated": "2023-10-27 23:21:12",
    "UserIsJrDev": 0,
    "MinutesLeft": -173762
  }
  // ...
]
json
[
  {
    "id": 11245,
    "user": "kmpers",
    "gameId": 24541,
    "gameTitle": "GP World",
    "gameIcon": "/Images/076324.png",
    "consoleId": 33,
    "consoleName": "SG-1000",
    "claimType": 0,
    "setType": 1,
    "status": 1,
    "extension": 0,
    "special": 1,
    "created": "2023-10-27 22:30:49",
    "doneTime": "2023-10-27 23:21:12",
    "updated": "2023-10-27 23:21:12",
    "userIsJrDev": false,
    "minutesLeft": -173762
  }
  // ...
]

Source

RepoURL
RAWebhttps://github.com/RetroAchievements/RAWeb/blob/master/public/API/API_GetClaims.php
api-jshttps://github.com/RetroAchievements/api-js/blob/main/src/feed/getClaims.ts
api-kotlinhttps://github.com/RetroAchievements/api-kotlin/blob/main/src/main/kotlin/org/retroachivements/api/RetroInterface.kt

Released under the MIT license.