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Introduction

What TableArchive is, what it holds, and how to use it.

TableArchive is a database of board games, card games, and tabletop RPGs with a JSON API. It holds facts: players, playtime, age, year, credits, editions and expansions, barcodes, IDs in other systems, and photos. It holds no ratings, reviews, or prices.

It is small on purpose. Use it to put game facts in your collection tracker, barcode scanner, Discord bot, or the app you built with an AI assistant. When you need more, every item links to BoardGameGeek and Wikidata where we have the IDs.

What you get

  • GET /v1/items to search and filter, GET /v1/items/{slug} for everything about one item. No key needed to read.
  • Lookup by barcode, Wikidata QID, or BGG ID.
  • Photos resized to 320 and 1024 px as WebP.
  • The source of every field, and a history of every change.
  • An OpenAPI document, llms.txt, and every page here as Markdown.

How it is built

Our own work is public domain (CC0 1.0), offered with no warranty. Facts and photos that come from publishers, Wikidata, and other sources keep their sources' licenses, and the API returns those with the data. See Sources and licenses.