---
title: "Outbound Instant Gaming"
method: GET
path: "/api/out/partner/ig"
tags: ["outbound"]
---

# Outbound Instant Gaming

`GET /api/out/partner/ig`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.getcheapgames.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.getcheapgames.com/api/out/partner/ig`
- Auth: none declared

The Instant Gaming banner's hop, routed through us like every other.

Three path segments, like `/out/promo/...` and `/out/store/...`, and not
the tidier `/out/ig`: that is two segments and would be matched by
`/out/{offer_id}` above, which is declared first and types the id as an
int — so the tidier spelling is a 422 on every click. Depending on
declaration order instead would work until somebody reorders the file.

Their widget builds its own anchor in the browser, pointing straight at
their site — so unlike every other advert here the click never touched our
origin, and nothing we measure could see it. The frontend rewrites that
anchor to this endpoint and hands the destination along.

The destination is carried rather than configured because the creative
rotates: it was advertising FC 27 when this was written, and sending that
click to the front page instead of the page the picture promised is the
kind of tidy-looking change that quietly costs conversions.

Two things are enforced rather than trusted. The host must be theirs, or
this is an open redirect wearing our domain. And the partner id is
OVERWRITTEN with ours, so a hand-edited link cannot point our traffic at
somebody else's account — which is the one thing a caller could otherwise
change to their benefit and our cost.

Recorded like every other exit, as placement 'partner' with no store row
(Instant Gaming is not a store we compare), tagged when our partner id
went on.

## Query parameters

- `to` string
- `src` string, nullable

## Other responses

- `307`: Successful Response
- `422`: Validation Error

---

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