🎮 Steam Store Search Scraper

This Actor scrapes game listings from the Steam store based on a given keyword search. It utilizes Puppeteer with stealth mode to navigate through search results and extract detailed information about Steam games.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Search for games on Steam using keywords
• 📊 Extract comprehensive game data including title, price, and platforms
• 🖼️ Collect game capsule images
• 📅 Gather release dates and review information
• 🔢 Configurable maximum number of results
• 🕵️‍♂️ Uses stealth mode to avoid detection
• 🔄 Automatic pagination through infinite scrolling

📥 Input

The Actor accepts the following input parameters:

• keyword (required): The search term to find games on Steam
• maxResults (optional): The maximum number of game listings to scrape (default: 100)

📤 Output

The Actor outputs a dataset containing the following information for each game:

• 🔗 Game URL
• 🖼️ Capsule image URL
• 📛 Game title
• 💻 Supported platforms
• 📅 Release date
• ⭐ Review result
• 👥 Number of reviews
• 💰 Price

🚀 Usage

To use this Actor, simply provide a search keyword and optionally set the maximum number of results. The Actor will then navigate through Steam's search results, collecting game information until it reaches the specified limit or exhausts all available results.

This Actor is perfect for game developers, marketers, or researchers looking to gather insights from Steam game listings.

💡 Use Cases

• 📊 Market Analysis: Track pricing trends and game popularity
• 🎯 Competitive Research: Monitor new releases and user reception
• 🔬 Genre Studies: Analyze game characteristics across different categories
• 💼 Business Intelligence: Gather data for informed decision-making in game development or publishing

🆘 Support

If you encounter any issues or have questions about using this Actor, please don't hesitate to reach out through Apify's support channels.

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2  "maxResults": 100,
3  "keyword": "war"
4}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2	{
3		"url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/593380/XCOM_2_War_of_the_Chosen/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_2",
4		"title": "XCOM 2: War of the Chosen",
5		"platform": [
6			"win",
7			"mac",
8			"linux"
9		],
10		"releaseDate": "4 Dec, 2018",
11		"reviewResult": "Very Positive",
12		"reviewNum": "82% of the 3,438 user reviews for this game are positive.",
13		"price": "12,30€"
14	},
15	{
16		"url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/2974330/God_of_War_Ragnark__Digital_Deluxe_Edition_Upgrade/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_2",
17		"title": "God of War Ragnarök - Digital Deluxe Edition Upgrade",
18		"platform": [
19			"win"
20		],
21		"releaseDate": "19 Sep, 2024",
22		"reviewResult": "Positive",
23		"reviewNum": "85% of the 28 user reviews for this game are positive.",
24		"price": "69,99€"
25	},
26    ...
27]