# Steam Scraper - Games, Sales Estimates, Players, Reviews (`coiled_magistrate/steam-scraper-fast`) Actor

Scrape Steam games by URL, search or charts (top sellers, new, specials): price, discounts, tags, genres, reviews, current players, owner and revenue estimates, plus review texts. $2 per 1,000 games.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/coiled\_magistrate/steam-scraper-fast.md
- **Developed by:** [TrendsData](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate) (community)
- **Categories:** Games, E-commerce, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 games

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Steam Scraper - Games, Sales & Revenue Estimates, Player Counts, Reviews

Scrape **Steam games** by URL, **search** (e.g. "roguelike") or **charts** (top sellers, popular new releases, specials, coming soon, free to play) and get everything a game developer, publisher or investor needs:

- **Price & discounts** in any store country, release date, developers, publishers
- **Genres, categories and user tags**, supported languages, platforms, Metacritic score
- **Reviews** - total, positive/negative, positive ratio, Steam review score
- **Players** - live player count right now and yesterday's peak
- **Sales estimates** - estimated owners (review-count method) and **estimated gross revenue**, plus SteamSpy owner range and average playtime
- **Review texts** (optional) - text, recommended or not, playtime at review, helpful votes, language

**$2 per 1,000 games, $0.20 per 1,000 reviews.** No start fee. Removed or invalid games are **never charged**.

### Why this scraper

- **Built for market research** - owners and revenue estimates next to every game, no spreadsheet formulas needed
- **Charts & search** - analyse a whole genre or the current top sellers in one run
- **Fast & reliable** - Steam's own JSON endpoints, ~0.5 s per game, no browser
- **Filter** - `minReviews` skips tiny games (free)
- **Privacy friendly** - review texts without reviewer identities

### Use cases

- **Game developers & publishers** - validate a genre before you build: how many games, how they sell, what players praise
- **Competitor tracking** - schedule daily runs and follow price, discount, review and player trends
- **Investors & analysts** - screen the Steam market for breakout titles
- **Marketing** - find tags, languages and price points that work
- **Sentiment analysis** - thousands of review texts for NLP / AI

### Input example

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["roguelike deckbuilder"],
  "charts": ["popularnew"],
  "maxGamesPerSource": 100,
  "minReviews": 50,
  "country": "us"
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
  "appId": 1086940,
  "name": "Baldur's Gate 3",
  "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/",
  "developers": ["Larian Studios"],
  "releaseDate": "2023-08-03",
  "price": 59.99,
  "discountPercent": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "genres": ["Adventure", "RPG", "Strategy"],
  "tags": ["RPG", "Character Customization", "Choices Matter", "Story Rich"],
  "metacriticScore": 96,
  "reviewScore": "Overwhelmingly Positive",
  "totalReviews": 858918,
  "positiveRatio": 0.9679,
  "currentPlayers": 25073,
  "peakPlayersYesterday": 54771,
  "estimatedOwnersLow": 17178360,
  "estimatedOwners": 25767540,
  "estimatedOwnersHigh": 51535080,
  "estimatedGrossRevenue": 927476601.4,
  "steamSpyOwners": "20,000,000 .. 50,000,000",
  "averagePlaytimeHours": 95.2
}
```

### How are sales estimated?

`estimatedOwners` = total reviews x 30 (the widely used review-count "Boxleiter" method; `Low` = x20, `High` = x60). `estimatedGrossRevenue` = estimated owners x launch price x 0.6 (discounts, regional pricing, refunds), before Steam's cut. These are **estimates** - great for comparing games, not exact sales.

### Pricing

- **$0.002 per game** with all details, player count and estimates
- **$0.0002 per review text** (only if `maxReviewsPerGame` > 0)

### More tools from this author

- [Google News Scraper - real article URLs, any date range](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/google-news-fast)
- [Google Ads Transparency Scraper - every ad your competitors run](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/google-ads-transparency-fast)
- [Google Trends Scraper - interest over time, by region, related queries](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/google-trends-reliable)
- [Google Trends Trending Now - real-time trending searches for any country](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/google-trending-now)
- [Keyword Suggestions - Google, YouTube, Amazon autocomplete](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/keyword-suggestions)
- [Tech Stack Detector - Wappalyzer & BuiltWith alternative](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/tech-stack-detector)
- [Company Jobs Scraper - Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby & more](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/company-jobs-scraper)
- [YouTube Scraper - videos, channels, search results ($1/1K)](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/youtube-scraper-fast)
- [YouTube Transcript Scraper - subtitles for videos, channels, playlists](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/youtube-transcript-fast)
- [YouTube Shorts Scraper - search, hashtags, channels](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/youtube-shorts-fast)
- [YouTube Channel Scraper - subscribers, stats, links, latest videos](https://apify.com/coiled_magistrate/youtube-channel-fast)

# Actor input Schema

## `games` (type: `array`):

Steam store URLs (store.steampowered.com/app/...) or numeric app IDs.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Search terms, e.g. 'roguelike', 'cozy farming', 'souls-like'.

## `charts` (type: `array`):

Steam lists to scrape.

## `maxGamesPerSource` (type: `integer`):

How many games to take from each search query or chart.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code for prices and currency, e.g. us, gb, de, pl, br.

## `includePlayerCount` (type: `boolean`):

Live number of players right now (Steam API).

## `includeOwnerEstimates` (type: `boolean`):

SteamSpy owner range, yesterday's peak players, user tags and average playtime.

## `minReviews` (type: `integer`):

Skip games with fewer reviews (skipped games are not charged).

## `maxReviewsPerGame` (type: `integer`):

Also scrape up to N review texts per game (newest first). 0 = no review texts. Reviews are charged separately.

## `reviewLanguage` (type: `string`):

Steam language name for review texts: all, english, german, french, spanish, russian, schinese, brazilian...

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel requests.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Used automatically only if Steam rate-limits a request.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "games": [
    "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/Baldurs_Gate_3/"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "charts": [],
  "maxGamesPerSource": 50,
  "country": "us",
  "includePlayerCount": true,
  "includeOwnerEstimates": true,
  "minReviews": 0,
  "maxReviewsPerGame": 0,
  "reviewLanguage": "all",
  "maxConcurrency": 8,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped items.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Compact table view.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "games": [
        "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/Baldurs_Gate_3/"
    ],
    "searchQueries": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("coiled_magistrate/steam-scraper-fast").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "games": ["https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/Baldurs_Gate_3/"],
    "searchQueries": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("coiled_magistrate/steam-scraper-fast").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "games": [
    "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1086940/Baldurs_Gate_3/"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call coiled_magistrate/steam-scraper-fast --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,coiled_magistrate/steam-scraper-fast"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/bILeZUIsYiA4XtTWN/builds/Dk8Iznx45CadavLeU/openapi.json