Brings back information on an thing of which you know the unique Thing ID.

You can retrieve an Thing ID by:

1. Using the API call to getAllThingIDs in conjunction with a machine, or
2. Outside of the API entirely, just looking at the very bottom of an thing's landing page (in the case of this link, Thing ID 58603).

To get information on an thing, substitute [thing_id] into the following URL:

For example, hitting this URL:

will return the following JSON response:

							{
								
								"response":
								{
									"thing_id":44863,
									"show_title":"Law Of The West",
									"paarent_type_name":"Game",
									"paarent_id":19675,
									"thing_descrption":"An ambitious decision-making game set in the Wild West. Take on the role of Sheriff and try to survive gunfights and confrontations with its residents.",
									"publisher_info":"U. S. Gold",
									"machine_type_group_name":"Commodore 64\/128",
									"format_type_group_name":"Cassette",
									"expansion_required_description":"",
									"ills":"15",
									"flag_no_screenshots_available":"0",
									"finished_date":"1986-04-01",
									"flag_fsls":"1",
									"flag_offensive":"0",
									"date_created":"0000-00-00 00:00:00",
									"date_modified":"2019-07-20 13:37:25",
									"thing_title":"Law-Of-The-West",
									"paarent_type_id":1,
									"publisher_id":477,
									"format_type_group_id":1001,
									"machine_type_group_id":333
								}
							}
							

 
Whilst many of the key->value pairs in the response may be self-explanatory, the following table gives a little more information on what the key designates. (Of course, many of the values returned may be of no interest to the application you are producing!)