[BUG] Public Custom Games No Longer Accessible Via API

[tjbjorklund3]

Bug Description
As of 14.1, custom games that can be spectated by anyone (Allow spectators: all) no longer are accessible via the API. Unsure if this is intentional or not.

Problem Description
As someone a part of a competitive team, I would love to be able to pull more than just the basic data available in the post-game stats. If they were never intended to be viewable via the API, it's a bit dissapointing, but understandable. I would just like to know so that I can properly continue to build our data dashboard.

Expected Result
Exepected to be able to pull API data for the games.

Actual Result
Was not able to call the games.

Developer Impact
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It's dissapointing, but not a major "issue". More data is great for socials, sponsors, and school administration.

Player Impact
Less data for improvement.

Preconditions
Custom games

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Issue Comments
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[tisbells]

Hi there - This may have been a miss when the spectator service was updated earlier this year. We have a request open to the owning team to see about getting this added back to the Spectator-V5 API. I'll post back here when I have more info.

[tisbells]

Hey there - There was a change made where the spectator service no longer stores custom games by default. Someone needs to click spectate in the client or the game won't be available in the Spectator API. We were able to test that custom matches where the spectate button was pressed are still available in the API.

Let us know if this settles your issue or if you are still unable to find custom lobbies that are being actively spectated in the API.

[jebibot]

Someone needs to click spectate in the client

So, there is no way to know via the API that the summoner is playing a custom game until someone starts spectating, right? Is there a way to "click the button" via the API?