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Mobile Apps (& CORS Error)

Client-side calls to the Riot API are blocked because there is no way to make them without exposing your API key to users. You will need to set up a backend server that can make API calls while keeping your API key secure. If you want to quickly set up

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PUUIDs and Other IDs

The Riot API uses three IDs for players: summoner IDs, account IDs, and PUUIDs. Different APIs use different IDs, and you should use whichever ID is required by the API you are using. Summoner and account IDs are only unique per region, and PUUIDs are unique globally. Because the PUUID

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Data Dragon

Data Dragon, or ddragon for short, is a set of static data files that provides images and info about champions, runes, and items. This includes info to translate champion IDs to names. You can download the entire set of data and images by downloading this tarball (make sure to change

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Match History - TFT

Best PracticesTo best utilize TFT match history there are two things to keep in mind; match history is still evolving and fresh data is cheaper. Response Body StructureA basic version of TFT match history was released in the client in patch 9.19. If you look up matches played during

Getting Started

Welcome to Hextechdocs

League of LegendsThis document will provide you with a basic understanding of the League of Legends developer resources. It is designed to help you begin exploring and developing your own tools and products for League of Legends. Getting StartedBefore starting on a product for League of Legends, there are two

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Gathering LoLEsports data

Following the shutdown of some important API from the lolesports website that allowed us to get hashes to gather data from official matches, the solution is to rely on Leaguepedia which has everything we need. Here is an example how to do it in Python. We will use the leaguepedia-parser

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[Obsolete] Using third-party-code to verify account ownership

As noted by Riot in this tweet, the Third Party Code API has been removed and users are encouraged to migrate over to RSO in lieu of using this endpoint. Anything noted in this document is no longer usable as of the 7th of March 2022.Before the new rune

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Rate Limiting

Disclaimer : this article consists in the old doc from the official dev portal : https://web.archive.org/web/20190629194440/https://developer.riotgames.com/rate-limiting.html What is Rate Limiting?In order to control the use of the Riot Games API, we set limits on how many times endpoints can be

Getting Started

Getting Started With The Riot Games API

This guide is to explain the basics of the Riot Games API for League of Legends. Before getting startedIt is worthwhile to read over the developer policies and legal of Riot Games before starting on your project. Developer PoliciesLegal Jibber JabberAlthough we can't cover it all, at the end of

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Crawling matches using the Riot Games API

One of the most popular use cases of the match-5 API is providing statistics like winrates, playrates, banrates and common runes/builds on a per champion rather than a per player basis. Doing this requires access to as many matches as possible to provide accurate information. This guide will show