▶️ Open

Opens a game session for a particular user and allows you to tell Game Jolt that a user is playing your game. You must ping the session to keep it active and you must close it when you're done with it.

URL Endpoint

/sessions/open/

Parameters

Name	Required?	Type	Description
game_id	Yes	string	The ID of your game.
username	Yes	string	The user's username.
user_token	Yes	string	The user's token.

Returns

Name	Type	Description
success	boolean	Whether the request succeeded or failed. Example: true
message	string	If the request was not successful, this contains the error message. Example: Unknown fatal error occurred.

Remarks

• You can only have one open session for a user at a time. If you try to open a new session while one is running, the system will close out the current one before opening the new one.

Syntax

/sessions/open/?game_id=xxxxx&username=myusername&user_token=mytoken

Request Example

GET https://api.gamejolt.com/api/game/v1_2/sessions/open/
    ?game_id=1
    &username=hjake
    &user_token=404432
    &signature=af8b72e5668e2175a024220b2401869e 
HTTP/1.1
Host: api.gamejolt.com

Version history

Version	Description
1.0	First implementation