Steam Reviews Scraper

Steam Reviews Scraper returns the user reviews of any Steam game, one row per review: the full text, whether the reviewer recommends the game, helpful and funny votes, post and edit dates, Steam purchase, free copy, early access and Steam Deck flags, and the hours the reviewer had played. Enter app IDs, store links or game names in Games and click Start; 7,464 English reviews of 6 games took 21 seconds in October 2026. Reviewer names, Steam IDs and profiles are not collected. It costs $0.45 per 1,000 reviews on the Free plan ($0.225 on Business), and the $5 of monthly credit in Apify's Free plan covers about 11,000 reviews.

What data does it return?

Field	Description
reviewId, key	Steam's recommendation ID of the review, and the row key review:<reviewId> that new-only mode compares.
appId, gameName	Steam app ID of the game, and its name when Include game details is on (otherwise null).
text	The whole review as written, with line breaks. Reviews without any text are left out.
recommended	true for a positive review (thumbs up), false for a negative one.
language	Language of the review in Steam's naming, such as english, schinese or brazilian.
votesHelpful, votesFunny, helpfulnessScore	How many users marked the review helpful or funny, and Steam's weighted helpfulness score from 0 to 1.
commentCount	Number of comments under the review.
createdAt, updatedAt	When the review was posted and last edited, ISO 8601 UTC. Equal when it was never edited.
steamPurchase, receivedForFree, writtenDuringEarlyAccess, primarilySteamDeck	Whether the reviewer bought the game on Steam, marked it as received for free, wrote during early access, or played mostly on a Steam Deck.
playtimeAtReviewHours, playtimeTotalHours, playtimeLastTwoWeeksHours	Hours played when writing the review, in total so far and in the last two weeks, to one decimal.
authorGamesOwned, authorReviewCount	How many games the reviewer owns and how many reviews they wrote. These two counts are all the actor keeps about the reviewer. Steam stopped returning the games count on 22 October 2026, so authorGamesOwned is empty in new runs.
type	review for review rows, game for the optional game rows described below.

With Include game details on, each game also gets one row of type game with name, kind (such as game or dlc), developers, publishers, releaseDate as the store writes it, priceInitial, priceFinal, discountPercent and currency for the store country, metacriticScore, genres, categories, platforms, supportedLanguages, dlcCount, achievementsTotal, and the review summary: reviewScoreLabel (such as Very Positive), totalPositive, totalNegative, totalReviews and positiveShare in percent.

How to scrape Steam reviews

1. In Games, enter Steam app IDs (413150), store links (https://store.steampowered.com/app/570/Dota_2/) or names (Hades), one per line. To review a whole genre or series, put words into Search terms, which takes the top matches of each term from the Steam store search.
2. Set Maximum reviews per game. Reviews are read 100 at a time in the Order you pick: newest first, recently updated or most helpful.
3. Narrow by Review language (all or one Steam language such as english or german), Review type (recommended or not) and Purchase type (bought on Steam or with a key from elsewhere). Steam applies these filters itself, so only matching reviews are read.
4. Add Published after to get reviews from a date on. With newest first, reading stops once it reaches that date.
5. Turn on Include game details if you also want prices, genres and the review score, and click Start. Rows land in the Output tab and can be exported as CSV, Excel or JSON.

An API input for recent negative English reviews of two games:

{
  "apps": ["730", "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145350/"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000,
  "language": "english",
  "reviewType": "negative",
  "sort": "recent",
  "publishedAfter": "2026-09-01",
  "includeGameDetails": true
}

Example output

A review of Hades from a run on 11 October 2026 with the prefilled input. Include game details was off, so gameName is null.

{
  "type": "review",
  "key": "review:237457959",
  "appId": 1145360,
  "gameName": null,
  "reviewId": "237457959",
  "language": "english",
  "text": "Probably one of the best games ever, and certainly one of the best of its genre.  Perfect mesh of story and game mechanics, winding down now but still loving it after 110 hours.  Wonderful knowing Hades 2 is waiting for me after I finish.",
  "recommended": true,
  "votesHelpful": 0,
  "votesFunny": 0,
  "helpfulnessScore": 0.5,
  "commentCount": 0,
  "createdAt": "2026-10-11T12:12:40.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-11T12:12:40.000Z",
  "steamPurchase": true,
  "receivedForFree": false,
  "writtenDuringEarlyAccess": false,
  "primarilySteamDeck": false,
  "playtimeAtReviewHours": 110.3,
  "playtimeTotalHours": 112.6,
  "playtimeLastTwoWeeksHours": 100.3,
  "authorGamesOwned": 763,
  "authorReviewCount": 41
}

How much does it cost to scrape Steam reviews?

	Free plan	Starter	Scale	Business
1,000 reviews	$0.45	$0.36	$0.2925	$0.225
Game details, per 1,000	$2.00	$1.60	$1.30	$1.00

You pay only for the events in the table. There is no start fee, and compute time and proxies are included.

10,000 reviews cost $4.50 on the Free plan and $2.25 on Business. A game row costs $0.002 and is charged only when Include game details is on and the store page was read. Reviews removed by your filters or already returned in new-only mode are not charged.

Limits

• One run reads up to 500 pages of 100 reviews per game, so at most 50,000 reviews of each game. Counter-Strike 2 had 2,630,032 English reviews in October 2026; to follow such a game, read the newest reviews on a schedule.
• Up to 3 games are read at the same time. A request that meets a server error or HTTP 429 is repeated twice after a pause.
• A name in Games takes the game with exactly that name, ignoring case and punctuation: Hades gives Hades (1145360), although the store search lists Hades II first. Without an exact match the first search result is used, and the notes of the SUMMARY record name it, so use the app ID when the name is ambiguous.
• Up to 10 games per search term come from the store's quick search. With a higher Maximum games per search term, up to 50, the actor reads the store's search result pages instead, 25 games per page. The search matches names, so roguelike finds games with that word in the title.
• There is a start date in Published after but no end date. For a closed period, use newest first and drop later reviews from the output.
• Reviews with an empty text are skipped: Combolands had 1,417 English reviews and 1,407 with text.
• The review summary of a game row (totalReviews, reviewScoreLabel) counts only reviews that match your language, review type and purchase type filters.
• releaseDate is store text such as Aug 21, 2012 or Coming soon, and the language of descriptions and genres follows Store language.
• With Day range for most helpful, Steam limits the most helpful order to the last 365 days at most.

Watching a game for new reviews

Set a Watch name or save the input as a task, turn on Return only rows new since the last run, choose newest first and schedule the run daily. Each run returns only reviews that no earlier run of the watch returned, so you pay for new reviews only. Reviews that Maximum rows or your spending limit cut off are not counted as seen, and the next run returns them. Keep Maximum reviews per game above the number of reviews a game gets between two runs, because only the newest ones are read. With game details on, the game row comes in every run and is charged each time, and the CHANGES record lists changes of its price, review score and review count since the last run.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Steam reviews?

Steam reviews are public on every store page. The actor reads them through the review endpoint that Valve documents for developers and the public store API, without logging in. It keeps no reviewer name, Steam ID or profile link, only playtime and two counts. Review texts are written by users and can quote anything, and you are responsible for how you use them.

Why does the review score differ from the store page?

The store page shows the score of all reviews in all languages, or of reviews in your language. The game row follows the filters of your run, so a run limited to english and negative reviews reports the totals for that slice.

Which language names does Steam use?

Steam names languages in English and in lower case: english, german, french, spanish, russian, brazilian for Brazilian Portuguese, schinese and tchinese for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, koreana for Korean and japanese. In the prefilled run of 150 reviews on 11 October 2026, 41 were in English, 37 in Russian and 36 in Simplified Chinese.

Related scrapers

• Google Play Reviews Scraper
• App Store Reviews Scraper

Support

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