Steam Store Scraper: Games, Prices & Regional Pricing

Steam Store Scraper reads the Steam storefront API for any game: title, type, developers, publishers, genres, categories, platforms, Metacritic score, review count, release date and the live price, with discounts, in as many countries as you ask for.

It talks to store.steampowered.com/api the way Steam's own store pages do: no key, no login, no proxy, no browser. Give it app IDs, game names, or nothing at all and it takes Steam's featured lists.

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https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/t7YoTxpZEJOWvw4Ug/records/steam-store-scraper.md

What you get

Output field	Meaning
appId, name, type	Steam app ID, title, and whether it is a game, dlc, demo, music…
isFree	True for free-to-play titles, which carry no price block
country, currency, priceInitial, priceFinal, discountPercent	Live price in the first country you list, converted from Steam's minor units
regionalPrices	One {country, currency, initial, final, discountPercent, finalFormatted} entry per requested country
developers, publishers	Studio and publisher lists
genres, categories	Steam's own genre and feature tags ("RPG", "Single-player", "Steam Cloud")
releaseDate, releaseDateIso, comingSoon	Steam's display date, an ISO date when parseable, and the unreleased flag
metacriticScore, metacriticUrl, recommendations	Critic score with its source link, and the Steam review count
platforms, requiredAge, supportedLanguages	Supported OSes as an array, age gate, and the language list
dlcCount, achievementsTotal, headerImage, website, shortDescription, storeUrl	The rest of the store page, flattened
scrapedAt	Run timestamp

A RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store holds per-run counts, resolved and unresolved search terms, unavailable app IDs, and any request that failed.

Common use cases

• Regional price comparison. The same game at $17.99 in the US, ¥2,633 in Japan and R$59.97 in Brazil, in one row.
• Discount-cycle monitoring. Track discountPercent and priceFinal on a watchlist through a Steam sale.
• Games-market research. Genre, category, Metacritic and review-count distributions across the top sellers.
• Catalogue enrichment. Resolve a list of game names to app IDs and structured metadata.

Quick start

Nothing at all, Steam's current specials, top sellers, new releases and upcoming titles:

{}

A watchlist priced in four regions:

{
 "appIds": ["1091500", "1086940", "292030"],
 "countryCodes": ["us", "de", "jp", "br"]
}

Resolve by name, in German:

{
 "searchTerms": ["Baldur's Gate 3", "Hades II", "Elden Ring"],
 "countryCodes": ["de"],
 "language": "german"
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
appIds	array	[]	Numeric app IDs or full store URLs.
searchTerms	array	[]	Game names, resolved through Steam's store search. Best single match per term.
countryCodes	array	["us"]	ISO alpha-2 codes. The first drives the full record; the rest add regional prices.
language	string	english	Steam language name, not a locale code.
includeFeatured	boolean	false	Append Steam's specials, top sellers, new releases and coming-soon lists.
maxApps	integer	50	Cap on games per run. 0 = no cap.

Which combinations make sense

• No input at all turns includeFeatured on automatically and returns roughly 50 currently promoted apps. That is the intended zero-config run.
• appIds and searchTerms merge into one deduplicated list; the cap applies to the merged list.
• countryCodes beyond the first cost one extra request per 50 games, not one per game, so comparing eight regions across 50 games is 58 requests, not 400.
• language other than english leaves releaseDateIso null, because Steam returns a localised date string this Actor will not guess at.
• maxApps: 0 with includeFeatured is safe (the featured lists hold ~60 IDs); maxApps: 0 with a 5,000-ID list is a two-hour run at Steam's throttle.

Output example

A real record from a live run (categories and supportedLanguages abridged):

{
 "appId": 1091500,
 "name": "Cyberpunk 2077",
 "type": "game",
 "isFree": false,
 "country": "us",
 "currency": "USD",
 "priceInitial": 59.99,
 "priceFinal": 17.99,
 "discountPercent": 70,
 "priceFormatted": "$17.99",
 "regionalPrices": [
 { "country": "us", "currency": "USD", "initial": 59.99, "final": 17.99, "discountPercent": 70, "finalFormatted": "$17.99" },
 { "country": "de", "currency": "EUR", "initial": 59.99, "final": 17.99, "discountPercent": 70, "finalFormatted": "17,99€" },
 { "country": "jp", "currency": "JPY", "initial": 8778, "final": 2633, "discountPercent": 70, "finalFormatted": "¥ 2,633" }
 ],
 "developers": ["CD PROJEKT RED"],
 "publishers": ["CD PROJEKT RED"],
 "genres": ["RPG"],
 "categories": ["Single-player", "Steam Achievements", "Full controller support", "Steam Cloud"],
 "releaseDate": "Dec 9, 2020",
 "releaseDateIso": "2020-12-09",
 "comingSoon": false,
 "metacriticScore": 86,
 "metacriticUrl": "https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/cyberpunk-2077?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f",
 "recommendations": 877998,
 "platforms": ["windows", "mac"],
 "requiredAge": 17,
 "dlcCount": 3,
 "achievementsTotal": 57,
 "supportedLanguages": ["English*", "French*", "Italian*", "German*", "Japanese*"],
 "headerImage": "https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1091500/…/header.jpg",
 "website": "https://www.cyberpunk.net",
 "shortDescription": "Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City…",
 "storeUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091500/",
 "scrapedAt": "2026-08-06T11:45:11.158Z"
}

Two things about this record:

• regionalPrices is omitted entirely (not null) when you request a single country, so CSV exports of a one-region run stay narrow.
• Prices are already converted. Steam returns minor units for every currency including JPY, where 877800 means ¥8,778. The Actor divides by 100 once, consistently, and keeps Steam's own finalFormatted string alongside so you can check it.

RUN_SUMMARY

{
 "appsRequested": 5,
 "appsSaved": 4,
 "appsUnavailable": 1,
 "unavailableAppIds": [999999999],
 "resolvedSearchTerms": [{ "appId": 1086940, "name": "Baldur's Gate 3" }],
 "unresolvedSearchTerms": ["zzzqqqnotathing"],
 "featuredIdsAdded": 0,
 "requestsFailed": 0,
 "failures": [],
 "filters": { "countryCodes": ["us", "de", "jp"], "language": "english", "includeFeatured": false, "maxApps": 10 },
 "finishedAt": "2026-08-06T11:45:11.162Z"
}

appsUnavailable and requestsFailed are different things: the first is Steam saying "this app is not sold here", the second is a request that never landed.

Finding an app ID

The app ID is the number in the store URL: store.steampowered.com/app/1091500/Cyberpunk_2077/ → 1091500. You can paste the whole URL, the Actor extracts the number.

If you only have names, use searchTerms. The Actor calls Steam's own store search, takes the best result of type app, and logs which title it picked so you can check it. Steam's ISteamApps/GetAppList Web API method, the usual advice for bulk name lookup, now returns 404 and is no longer usable; store search is the working replacement.

API example

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/arman-bd~steam-store-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{
 "appIds": ["1091500", "1086940"],
 "countryCodes": ["us", "de", "jp"]
 }'

JavaScript example

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('arman-bd/steam-store-scraper').call({
 appIds: ['1091500', '292030'],
 countryCodes: ['us', 'de', 'jp', 'br'],
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const game of items) {
 const row = game.regionalPrices.map((p) => `${p.country}:${p.finalFormatted}`).join(' ');
 console.log(`${game.name}, ${row}`);
}

Limits and behaviour

• One app per full request. Passing several IDs to appdetails without a filter returns HTTP 400, verified. The only exception is filters=price_overview, which does accept a list; 50 IDs came back in a single response, and that is exactly how the extra countries are fetched.
• Steam throttles around 200 requests per 5 minutes. Requests are paced 1.5 s apart, so budget about 40 games a minute, roughly 1,200 against the default 30-minute timeout. Raise the timeout for more.
• A 429 is a timed ban, not a bucket. Backoff is in minutes (60 s, then 120 s), and Retry-After is honoured when Steam sends it. A throttled appdetails sometimes answers HTTP 200 with a literal null body; that is treated as throttling too.
• success: false is normal. It means the ID does not exist, or the app is not sold in the requested country. Those IDs go to RUN_SUMMARY.unavailableAppIds and the run continues.
• Regional prices can be sparse. A game withdrawn from one region simply has no entry for it in regionalPrices, rather than a row of nulls.
• metacriticScore is often null. Steam only carries it where Metacritic has a PC score; plenty of top sellers have none.
• Public data only. No authentication, no personal data, no access-control bypass.

FAQ

Do I need a proxy? No. Proxy configuration is not required to run this Actor.

Do I need a Steam API key? No. You supply no credentials.

Why is priceFinal null? Either the title is free-to-play (isFree: true), or it is a bundle/package with no per-app price, or it is not sold in the country you asked for. Check isFree first.

Are prices really in cents? Steam returns minor units for every currency, including ones that have no minor unit. initial: 877800 for JPY means ¥8,778. The Actor divides by 100 across the board, which is correct for all of them.

Can I get review scores? recommendations is Steam's total review count and metacriticScore is the critic score. The positive/negative split lives on a different endpoint and is not included.

How do I pick a country code? Any ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code Steam sells in, us, gb, de, fr, jp, br, in, ru, tr, au. Note that some regions are billed in USD rather than a local currency; the currency field tells you which.

Can I schedule it? Yes, it is designed for scheduled runs. A 50-game watchlist across three regions is about 55 requests and finishes in under two minutes.

Can I integrate it with something else? Yes, Apify API, client libraries, webhooks, scheduled runs, dataset exports (JSON/CSV/Excel) or MCP. Output is structured JSON.