Itch.io Scraper

Indie games, tools and game assets from itch.io — prices and sales, ratings, platforms, genres, tags and release dates — as clean JSON.

Scrape itch.io games, tools, game assets, soundtracks and books from any browse page, tag, creator or game URL. Get price and sale, rating, platforms, genre, tags, status, release dates, screenshots and description for each project. Paste an itch.io browse page with your sorting and filters (top rated, newest, on sale, free, a tag, a platform), a collection, a creator's page or a single game page, or just give tags, and get one row per project with its price and discount, average rating and number of ratings, platforms, genres, tags, development status, release and update dates, languages, inputs, links, cover image, screenshots and full description. No login, no API key, no proxy. Built for indie game market research, discovering games and creators, tracking prices and sales, and building game and asset catalogs.

⚡ Quick start

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://itch.io/games/top-rated" }],
  "maxItems": 5
}

🧩 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	no	—	itch.io browse pages (itch.io/games/top-rated, itch.io/game-assets/free/tag-pixel-art …), collections (itch.io/c/<id>/…), creator pages (<creator>.itch.io) or game pages (<creator>.itch.io/<game>).
tags	array	no	—	itch.io tags to browse games by, such as horror, pixel art or roguelike. Each tag returns the games on its tag page, most popular first. Give these, startUrls, or both.
maxItems	integer	no	—	Maximum number of projects per start URL or tag. The input form starts at 5; leave it empty to get every project the page lists.
includeDetails	boolean	no	true	Open each project's page for its full details: tags, status, dates, original price and sale end, languages, links, screenshots and description. Turn it off for a faster run with only the browse-grid fields.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Proxy settings. itch.io needs no proxy; for runs of thousands of projects, a datacenter proxy runs faster.

Using itch.io filters. Open itch.io/games (or Tools, Game assets, Soundtracks, Comics, Books, Physical games), pick a sort order and filters such as Free, On sale, a tag or a platform, and paste the address from your browser into startUrls. The Actor returns the same projects in the same order, page after page. itch.io shows a browser check on pages that combine three or more filters, so keep to two (for example https://itch.io/games/top-rated/tag-horror).

📤 Output

Each project is one dataset row. Prices are in the currency the creator sells in; price is what a buyer pays now, after any sale. With includeDetails off, rows carry what the browse grid shows: title, tagline, creator, price and discount, platforms, genre, rating and cover image.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
id	number	itch.io project ID.
url	string	The project's itch.io page.
title	string	Project title.
classification	string	game, tool, assets, game_mod, physical_game, soundtrack, comic, book or other.
shortText	string	The tagline shown under the title.
creator	object	The creator's name and itch.io page url.
price	number	Lowest price a buyer can pay now, after any sale; 0 for free and pay-what-you-want-from-zero projects.
originalPrice	number	Price before the current sale; null when not on sale.
currency	string	Price currency (ISO 4217); null for free projects.
isFree	boolean	Whether the project can be had for free.
nameYourOwnPrice	boolean	Whether buyers may pay more than the price ("Name your own price" or "or more").
onSale	boolean	Whether the project is discounted right now.
discountPercent	number	Current discount, in percent.
saleEndsAt	string	When the current sale ends, as ISO 8601.
platforms	array	HTML5 (playable in the browser), Windows, macOS, Linux, Android …
playableInBrowser	boolean	Whether the project plays or runs in the browser.
genres	array	Genres, such as Adventure or Visual Novel.
tags	array	The creator's tags.
ratingAverage	number	Average rating out of 5.
ratingCount	number	Number of ratings.
status	string	Development status: Released, In development, Prototype, On hold …
releasedAt	string	Release date, as ISO 8601, when the creator set one.
publishedAt	string	When the page was published, as ISO 8601, when itch.io shows it.
updatedAt	string	Last update, as ISO 8601.
madeWith	array	Engines and tools the project was made with, such as Unity, Godot or Ren'Py.
averageSession	string	Typical play session, such as "About an hour".
languages	array	Supported languages.
inputs	array	Supported inputs: Keyboard, Mouse, controllers, Touchscreen …
accessibility	array	Accessibility features, such as Subtitles or Configurable controls.
links	array	The creator's links (title, url): homepage, Steam, Discord, Patreon …
summary	string	The page's one-line summary, such as "A downloadable game for Windows and Linux".
coverImage	string	Cover image URL.
screenshots	array	Full-size screenshot URLs.
description	string	Full description as plain text.
descriptionHtml	string	Full description as HTML.
sourceUrl	string	The start URL the project was found from.

💡 Use cases

• Indie game market research — size up a genre or tag: how many games, at what prices, with what ratings, on which platforms and engines.
• Game and creator discovery — find promising new releases, top-rated projects and the creators behind them.
• Price and sale tracking — watch discounts, sale end dates and pay-what-you-want pricing across games and asset packs.
• Asset and tool catalogs — build lists of game assets, tools, soundtracks and tabletop games with their prices, links and media.

❓ FAQ

• Do I need an itch.io account or an API key? No. The Actor reads the same public pages any visitor sees.
• Do I need a proxy? No. It runs without one by default and paces itself, since itch.io slows down visitors who request pages too quickly. For runs of thousands of projects, a datacenter proxy spreads the work over several IPs and runs faster.
• Can I search itch.io by keyword? itch.io's search pages are off-limits to crawlers under its robots.txt, so the Actor does not open them. Use tags instead (each tag is an itch.io tag page), or paste a tag page with your filters, such as https://itch.io/games/newest/tag-horror.
• Why did a browse URL return nothing? itch.io shows a browser check on browse pages that combine three or more filters (for example sort + Free + a tag), and the log says so. Keep to two filters. A tag that does not exist on itch.io also returns nothing.
• Why is the price 0 for a project marked on sale? Some creators sell pay-what-you-want projects from $0 with a discount on the suggested price. The project is free to download, and itch.io still lists the sale.
• How many projects can I get from one browse page? As many as itch.io lists, 36 per page, up to the roughly 9,000 results itch.io shows for one sort and filter combination. Narrow the filters to reach further.
• Why are tags and dates empty for some rows? They come from each project's own page. Turn includeDetails on (the default) to get them.

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🖼 Image credit

Image credit: itch.io