Please read the overwolf.games.events documentation page to learn how to use Overwolf game events.
Sample Apps
Available Features
Game event status
It is highly recommended to communicate errors and warnings to app users.
Check the current game event status here. Alternately, you can easily check that status from your app itself, using our API.
gep_internal
Info Updates
key | Category | Values | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
gep_internal | gep_internal | Local + Public version number | See notes | 229.0 |
gep_internal note
Data Example:
{"info":{"gep_internal":{"version_info":"{"local_version":"157.0.1","public_version":"157.0.1","is_updated":true}"}},"feature":"gep_internal"}
game_info
Info Updates
key | Category | Values | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
game_state | game_info | The current state of the game. | See notes | 229.0 |
game_mode | game_info | Currently played game-mode. | See notes | 229.0 |
battle_tag | game_info | Player's battelnet tag | See notes | 229.2 |
game_type | game_info | The type of the current played game | See notes | 252.0 |
game_queue_type | match_info | The type of the current queue | See notes | 256.1 |
game_state note:
List of possible values:
- loading_screen_start
- game_loaded
- match_in_progress
- match_ended
Data Example:
{"info":{"game_info":{"game_state":"loading_screen_start"}},"feature":"game_info"}
game_mode note
Be wary that this is not supported in game-browser.
Full list of game-modes:
- 0003 = "Junkensteins Revenge"
- 0007 = "Ctf"
- 0008 = "Meis Snowball Offensive"
- 0009 = "Elimination"
- 0015 = "Uprising"
- 0016 = "Skirmish"
- 0020 = "Assault"
- 0021 = "Escort"
- 0022 = "Hybrid"
- 0023 = "Control"
- 0025 = "Tutorial"
- 0026 = "Uprising All Heroes"
- 0029 = "Team Deathmatch"
- 0030 = "Deathmatch"
- 0032 = "Lucioball"
- 0037 = "Retribution"
- 0041 = "Yeti Hunter"
- 0042 = "Halloween Holdout Endless"
- 0061 = "Calypso Heromode"
- 0066 = "Story Missions"
- 0067 = "Storm Rising"
- 0074 = "Survivor"
- 0089 = "Snowball Deathmatch"
- 0109 = "Flashpoint"
- 0090 = "Practice Range"
- 0112 = "Bounty Hunter"
- 0165 = "Hero Mastery - Solo"
- 0186 = "Hero Mastery CO-OP"
Data Example:
{"info":{"game_info":{"game_mode":"16"}},"feature":"game_info"}
Note that on the response the leading zeros are removed ("0030" => "30")
battle_tag note
Data Example:
{"feature":"game_info","category":"game_info","key":"battle_tag","value":"OverTheTop#2100"}
game_type note:
List of possible values:
- UNKNOWN
- UNRANKED
- CUSTOM_GAME
- PRACTICE
- ARCADE
- TUTORIAL
- SKIRMISH
- VS_AI
- DEATHMATCH
- RANKED
- HERO_MASTERY
Data Example:
{"feature":"game_info","category":"match_info","key":"game_type","value":"SKIRMISH"}
game_queue_type note:
possible game_queue_type values:
- OPEN_QUEUE
- ROLE_QUEUE
Data Example:
{"feature":"game_info","category":"match_info","key":"game_queue_type","value":"OPEN_QUEUE"}
match_info
Info Updates
key | Category | Values | Notes | Since Version |
---|---|---|---|---|
map | match_info | Name of currently played map. | See notes | 229.0 |
pseudo_match_id | match_info | Unique mtch_id | See notes | 237.0 |
match_outcome | match_info | Outcome of the current match | See notes | 250.1 |
map note
Important to note some values that are still unknown. Most of them are listed down here.
Possible map values:
- 3314 = "Antarc Pebibsula"
- 2018 = "Busan"
- 1645 = "Ilios"
- 1634 = "Lijiang Tower"
- 1719 = "Lijiang Tower Lunar New Year"
- 1207 = "Nepal"
- 1694 = "Oasis"
- 2087 = "Circuit Royal"
- 707 = "Dorado"
- 2628 = "Havana"
- 1878 = "Junkertown"
- 2161 = "Rialto"
- 1467 = "Route 66"
- 3205 = "Shambali Monastery"
- 388 = "Watchpoint Gibraltar"
- 1886 = "Blizzard World"
- 2651 = "Blizzard World Winter"
- 1677 = "Eichenwalde"
- 2036 = "Eichenwalde Halloween"
- 687 = "Hollywood"
- 1707 = "Hollywood Halloween"
- 212 = "Kings Row"
- 1713 = "Kings Row Winter"
- 2892 = "Midtown"
- 0468 = "Numbani"
- 2360 = "Paraiso"
- 2868 = "Coloesseo"
- 3411 = "Esperanca"
- 2795 = "New Queen Street"
- 3603 = "New Junk City"
- 3390 = "Suravasa"
Data Example:
{"info":{"match_info":{"map":"357"}},"feature":"match_info"}
Note that in the response the leading zeros are removed ("0030" => "30")
pseudo_match_id note
This is an Overwolf-generated code, unrelated to the game.
Data Example:
{"info":{"match_info":{"pseudo_match_id":"5a7e3729-993c-414d-8e3f-592faeef81e7"}},"feature":"match_info"}
match_outcome note
Possible values:
- victory
- defeat
Data Example:
{"info":{"match_info":{"match_outcome":"victory"}},"feature":"match_info"}
Events
Event | Event Data | Fired When (announcement) | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
match_start | null | Match started. | See notes | 229.0 |
match_end | null | Match ended. | See notes | 229.0 |
round_start | null | Round started. | See notes | 252.0 |
round_end | null | Round ended. | See notes | 252.0 |
respawn | null | The local player respawn. | See notes | 258.0 |
revive | null | The local player revive. | See notes | 258.0 |
match_start note
Data Example:
{"name":"match_start","data":""}
match_end note
Data Example:
{"name":"match_end","data":""}
round_start note
Data Example:
{"name":"round_start","data":""}
round_end note
Data Example:
{"name":"round_end","data":""}
respawn note
Data Example:
{"name":"respawn","data":null}
revive note
Data Example:
{"name":"revive","data":null}
kill
Info Updates
key | Category | Values | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
eliminations | kill | Total amount of eliminations. | See notes | 229.0 |
eliminations note
Data Example:
{"info":{"kill":{"eliminations":"6"}},"feature":"kill"}
objective_kills note
Data Example:
{"info":{"kill":{"objective_kills":"2"}},"feature":"kill"}
Events
Event | Event Data | Fired When (announcement) | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
elimination | Integer | Elimination is performed. | See notes | 229.0 |
elimination note
The event includes the total amount performed in the match.
Data Example:
{"name":"elimination","data":"8"}
death
Info Updates
key | Category | Values | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
deaths | death | Total amount of deaths. | See notes | 229.0 |
death note
Data Example:
{"info":{"death":{"deaths":"5"}},"feature":"death"}
Events
Event | Event Data | Fired When (announcement) | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
death | Integer | Death has occurred. | See notes | 229.0 |
death note
The event includes the total amount of kills performed in the match.
Data Example:
{"name":"death","data":"2"}
assist
Info Updates
key | Category | Values | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
assists | death | Total amount of assists. | See notes | 229.0 |
assist note
Data Example:
{"info":{"assist":{"assist":"5"}},"feature":"assist"}
Events
Event | Event Data | Fired When (announcement) | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
assist | Integer | Assist has occurred. | See notes | 229.0 |
assist note
The event includes the total amount of assists performed in the match.
Data Example:
{"name":"assist","data":"2"}
roster
Info Updates
key | Category | Values | Notes | Since GEP Ver. |
---|---|---|---|---|
roster_XX | roster | Data about the roter | See [notes](#roster_XX -note) | 249.0 |
roster_XX note
List of values:
- player_name - the player's full name
- battlenet_tag - the battle net tag
- is_local - is the player the local player true/false
- is_teammate - is the player one of your teammates true/false
- hero_name - the name of the selected hero
- hero_role - the role of the selected hero
- team - the player's team 0/1
- kills / deaths / assists - the total number of kills/deaths/assists
- damage - the total damage
- healed - the total healed
- mitigated - the total mitigated
As for version 249.1.0 hero_name and hero_role will be available for the local player team only We will add them to the other team in the next GEP release
Data Example:
{"feature":"roster","category":"roster","key":"roster_0","value":"{\"player_name\":\"EDGED217\",\"battlenet_tag\":\"EDGED217#2842\",\"is_local\":false,\"is_teammate\":true,\"hero_name\":\"MOIRA\",\"hero_role\":\"SUPPORT\",\"team\":0,\"kills\":4,\"deaths\":0,\"damage\":462.16,\"assists\":0,\"healed\":274.866,\"mitigated\":0}"}