Iframe Embeds and JSON Feeds for a Website Game Catalog

Use an iframe when an editor chooses a specific game for a specific page. Use a feed when the website builds cards, categories and game pages from structured catalog data. The decision depends on who controls selection and how often the catalog must change.

Iframe codes: best for a handful of specific picks

If you're adding a game or two to an existing blog post, landing page, or sidebar widget, copying the individual embed code is the simplest path — no extra tooling, no build step, works in any HTML-accepting block. The tradeoff shows up once you want dozens of games with titles, thumbnails, and categories laid out consistently: doing that by hand means re-copying and re-formatting every time the list changes.

JSON/XML feeds: best for an actual catalog page

A feed gives you structured data — title, category, thumbnail, embed URL, device support — for every embeddable game in one request, which you render with your own template instead of hand-placing individual iframe blocks. That's the right tool once you're building something that looks like a real games section: a grid, a filterable list, or a page that needs to stay current without someone manually re-pasting codes.

• JSON is the easier format to consume in most modern site stacks — a fetch call and a loop over the array.
• XML suits older CMS integrations or tooling that already expects an XML sitemap-style feed structure.
• Both formats reflect the current live catalog automatically, so a game that gets pulled or a new one that gets added shows up without you touching your own code.

A practical way to decide

Ask how often the list will change and how many games are involved. A static "5 games we recommend" block on a page that rarely changes doesn't need a feed — copy the codes once and move on. A dedicated games section meant to grow over time, or one you want to keep current without manual upkeep, is worth the small amount of extra setup a feed integration takes.

Getting both from the same place

PlayKovo's publisher catalog offers both paths from the same page — copy individual iframe codes directly, or pull the JSON/XML feed for the full embeddable list if you're building something that needs to scale past a handful of picks.