Steam Reviews Scraper — Playtime, Votes & Sentiment

Scrape reviews for any Steam game: recommended or not, the full review text, helpful and funny votes, and — the field that actually matters — how many hours the author had played at the moment they wrote it.

No API key, no login. $0.002 per review — an app with no matching reviews is recorded and not charged.

Input

{ "appId": "570", "maxReviews": 200, "language": "english" }

Bulk, negative reviews only, by store URL:

{
  "appIds": ["570", "https://store.steampowered.com/app/440/Team_Fortress_2/"],
  "reviewType": "negative",
  "sort": "recent",
  "maxReviews": 500
}

Field	Type	Notes
appId	string	App id, or any store.steampowered.com/app/... URL.
appIds	string[]	Up to 10 apps per run.
maxReviews	integer	1–1000 per app. You are charged per review returned.
language	string	Steam language name — english, german, schinese, or all.
sort	enum	recent, updated, all (Steam's helpfulness ranking).
reviewType	enum	all, positive, negative.

Output

{
  "ok": true,
  "appId": "570",
  "totalReviews": 838200,
  "reviewScoreDesc": "Very Positive",
  "recommendationId": "232971383",
  "recommended": false,
  "review": "…",
  "createdAt": "2026-08-14T18:05:33.000Z",
  "helpfulVotes": 1030,
  "funnyVotes": 387,
  "helpfulnessScore": 0.9164,
  "steamPurchase": true,
  "receivedForFree": false,
  "onSteamDeck": false,
  "authorName": "…",
  "authorPlaytimeHours": 7724.5,
  "authorPlaytimeAtReviewHours": 7680.8,
  "authorGamesOwned": 5,
  "authorReviewCount": 1
}

What it gets right

• ⭐ Playtime at the time of review. Steam stores it and almost nothing surfaces it. It is the single number that separates a considered 400-hour review from a refund-window rant, and it is returned in hours — Steam's own unit is minutes, which nobody thinks in.
• ⭐ Totals are always present. Steam silently drops total_reviews, the positive/negative split and the score label from its summary whenever review_type is not all — measured. Those totals are what make a sample mean anything (42 negative reviews reads very differently against 800 than against 838,200), so they are fetched in their own request rather than reported as null.
• helpfulnessScore is a number. Steam sends it as a string; a score you cannot sort is not a score.
• Dates are ISO. Steam sends epoch seconds; read as milliseconds they land in 1970, and the spec asserts nothing predates Steam itself.
• Cursor paging is de-duplicated. Steam repeats its cursor at the end of a result set, so a naive pager loops and re-bills the same reviews. This stops on a repeated cursor and on a page that adds nothing new.
• Store URLs are resolved to app ids, so pasting a link works.

Pricing

$0.002 per review returned. 100 reviews is 20 cents. An app with no reviews under your filters produces a reviewCount: 0 record and is not charged.

Limits

• 10 apps per run, up to 1000 reviews each.
• Reviews only. Not store metadata, prices, or player counts.
• language uses Steam's own names (english, schinese), not ISO codes.
• Bundles and DLC pages are not review-bearing app ids; those return a clear error.

FAQ

Do I need a Steam API key? No — the review endpoint is public.

Can I get every review of a huge game? Up to 1000 per run; run again with a different sort or language for more.

Why is authorPlaytimeAtReviewHours sometimes null? Steam does not record it on older reviews.

Changelog

• 0.1 (2026-09-10) — first release. Playtime-at-review in hours, totals fetched independently of filters, numeric helpfulness score, de-duplicated cursor paging, store-URL resolution.