Steam Games Scraper

Steam Scraper: game details, prices, owner estimates and player reviews

Three jobs in one actor. Find Steam app ids by name, pull full store details and stats for a list of ids, or pull recent player reviews for them. Details mode gives you the price and discount, the genres and categories, the developers and publishers, the release date, the Metacritic score, the platforms and an owners estimate.

That owners figure needs a caveat up front. Valve does not publish how many copies anything has sold, so owners is an outside estimate delivered as a range like 10,000,000 .. 20,000,000. It is useful for sizing a genre. It is not a sales number, and nobody should present it as one.

🔍 What Steam Scraper does

Search turns a name into app ids. Type portal and you get back appId, name and an icon URL, nothing more. It exists so you can find the id you need, and it is worth knowing that a search row costs the same as a full details row, so keep maxItems low while you are hunting.

App takes those ids and returns the store page as structured data: price as the formatted US string, discountPct, genres, categories, developers, publishers, releaseDate, metacriticScore, recommendations, platforms, the short description with HTML stripped, and the owners and review-count estimates.

Reviews takes the same ids and pulls recent player reviews: the text, whether it was a thumbs up, how many people found it helpful, the reviewer's total playtime in minutes and how many games they own. They are in English unless you pick another language or all of them, and they come from people who bought the game on Steam unless you change purchaseType, because that is what Steam returns by default. On a free-to-play game that default is a thin slice: under 1% of Dota 2's English reviews when we checked. Set purchaseType to all for those games.

A bad id never stops the run. It becomes its own uncharged row and the other ids carry on.

📥 What you give it

{
  "mode": "app",
  "appIds": ["400", "620"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

The app id is the number in a store URL: store.steampowered.com/app/620/Portal_2/ is 620.

📤 What you get back

A real search-mode row from a recent run, which is the whole row, not an extract:

{
  "ok": true,
  "appId": "620",
  "name": "Portal 2",
  "icon": "https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/community_assets/images/apps/620/25a5a16b2423bf7487ac5340b5b0948cef48c5f8.jpg"
}

🧾 Reading the output

Real rows carry ok: true. Anything with ok: false carries an errorCode and is not charged.

The Console's Overview table shows app columns only, so a reviews run looks almost empty in it. The review text is there. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or switch the table to all fields.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Steam Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Run Mode on Search with a game name to collect the app ids you need. 3. Change Mode to App details or Player reviews, and paste those ids into App IDs. 4. Set Max items, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML.

💰 How much does it cost?

$2.00 per 1,000 rows. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

A search row, an app row and a review row all cost the same, which is worth knowing before a wide search. Repeated rows inside a run and every diagnostic row are not charged, and an id that Steam does not recognise costs you nothing.

💡 What people use it for

• Watching price and discount on a list of app ids through a sale, one run a day.
• Sizing a genre before building in it, using owner estimates and Metacritic together.
• Reading recent negative reviews sorted by playtimeForeverMin, so the complaints from people who

actually played it come first.

• Hearing what one market thinks before a launch there, with language set to brazilian or

schinese.

• Building a catalogue of a publisher's back list with genres, platforms and release dates.

🚧 What it does not do

• No sales figures. Nobody outside Valve has them, and owners is an estimated range.
• US store prices only. No regional pricing, no currency choice.
• Recent reviews only. Not the full history, and one language or all of them, not a chosen few.
• No wishlists, no concurrent players, no achievements, no workshop, no news.
• No user profiles or friend lists.
• maxItems is the total in reviews mode, so with several ids the later ones can come back with

nothing. Give a big game its own run.

• Long id lists get throttled. Steam decides the pace, and the tail of a few-hundred-id run can

come back as RATE_LIMITED rows.

• Rows are a snapshot. Prices, discounts and review counts move daily.

🧭 Which app and game scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Where do I find an app id? Either run search mode, or read it out of the store URL.

Why is owners a range? Because it is an estimate. Valve publishes no sales data, so anything presented as a hard number would be made up.

Can I get prices in my currency? No. The US store is what this reads.

Can I get reviews in German or Chinese? Yes. Set Review language to German, or to Chinese (Simplified) or (Traditional).

Why did my second game get no reviews? maxItems is the total across ids and the first game used it up. Run the games separately.

Is this legal? These are public store pages and public reviews, read through endpoints Steam serves to anyone. Reviews are written by identifiable accounts, so treat that text as personal data and have a reason for keeping it. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a good starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the mode, the app ids or query, and the run id. The errorCode on the diagnostic row usually names the problem by itself.