Unofficial Starcraft Guides API
## Find the right guide without crawling the web The Unofficial StarCraft Guide Index provides a predictable, static JSON catalog of community strategy resources for StarCraft and StarCraft II. Search by game, race, matchup, skill level, category, or content type, then use a stable guide ID for direct lookups. ### What you can build - Classroom exercises and API-integration demos - Search,…
Unofficial Starcraft Guides API endpoints
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
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| GET |
getGuide /api/v1/games/{game}/guides/{slug}.json |
Returns one complete guide record. First call getGameGuides for the desired game, then copy the exact slug field from one of its guides into the slug placeholder. |
| GET |
getGuideCollection /api/v1/games/{game}/{dimension}/{id}.json |
Returns guides matching one taxonomy value. Choose a dimension, then provide an id from its matching getTaxonomy list: categories use categories[].id, races use races[].id,… |
| GET |
getGuideById /api/v1/games/{game}/guides/by-id/{guideId}.json |
Returns one complete guide record by stable internal ID. First call getGameGuides for the desired game, then copy the exact id field from one of its guides into guideId. The ID… |
| GET |
getGameGuides /api/v1/games/{game}/guides/index.json |
Set game to sc1 for StarCraft: Brood War or sc2 for StarCraft II. The response includes complete guide records; copy any guide.id value into getGuideById for a stable lookup, or… |
| GET |
getApiStatus /api/v1/status.json |
Returns the current catalog build time, total guide count, per-game guide counts, and collection counts. Use this endpoint for health checks without downloading the full catalog. |
| GET |
getApiIndex /api/v1/index.json |
Start here to discover the API version, health URL, status URL, taxonomy URL, supported games, and links to each game's complete guide collection. |
| GET |
getApiHealth /api/v1/health.json |
Returns a small static response with status=ok, an opaque release identifier, and generation time. This is the only intentionally unauthenticated production path so RapidAPI and… |
| GET |
getTaxonomy /api/v1/taxonomy.json |
Lists every valid game, category, race, matchup, skill level, and content type. Use the returned id fields when filling the dimension and id placeholders in getGuideCollection. |
Unofficial Starcraft Guides API pricing
| Plan | Price | Rate limit | Quotas |
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| BASIC Recommended | Free | — |
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| PRO | $1 / month | — |
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| ULTRA | $5 / month | — |
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| MEGA | $10 / month | 5 / second |
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