# Steam Scraper — Games, Prices & Top Sellers (`glitchbound/steam-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Steam store: search games, pull full details with price, discount, genres, developers, Metacritic score and recommendation counts, plus current Top Sellers. Any country.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/glitchbound/steam-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Daniel Meshulam](https://apify.com/glitchbound) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, AI, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Steam Scraper — Games, Prices & Top Sellers

Pull structured game data from the Steam store: **search by keyword**, **look up games by app ID**, and **read the live Top Sellers chart** — with real prices for any country.

Built on Steam's own public store endpoints, so there is no login, no key and no bot wall.

### What you get

Every row is one game:

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `title` | `Hades II` |
| `appId` | `1145350` |
| `price` / `currency` | `29.99` / `USD` |
| `initialPrice`, `discountPercent` | `49.99`, `40` |
| `isFree` | `false` |
| `genres`, `categories` | `["Action","Indie"]` |
| `developers`, `publishers` | `["Supergiant Games"]` |
| `metacriticScore` | `92` |
| `recommendationCount` | `184213` |
| `releaseDate`, `comingSoon` | `28 Sep, 2024` |
| `platforms` | `{windows: true, mac: true, linux: false}` |
| `topSellerRank` | `5` (only on Top Sellers rows) |
| `url`, `headerImage`, `shortDescription` | |

### Three modes, one Actor

**Search** — `searchTerms: ["roguelike", "city builder"]`
Find every game matching a keyword, with full details. Use `maxResultsPerSearch` to cap.

**Direct lookup** — `appIds: ["730", "570"]`
Track specific games. Perfect for a daily price-watch schedule.

**Top Sellers** — `includeTopSellers: true`
Steam's current best-selling chart, ranked. Schedule it daily and you have your own sales-trend dataset.

You can combine all three in one run.

### Example input

```json
{
  "searchTerms": ["roguelike"],
  "appIds": ["730"],
  "includeTopSellers": true,
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 20,
  "country": "us"
}
```

### Regional pricing

Set `country` to any two-letter code (`us`, `gb`, `de`, `br`, `tr`, `il`…) and Steam returns that region's price and currency. Run the same app IDs across several countries to build a regional price-comparison table.

### Who this is for

- **Game devs & publishers** — track competitor pricing, discount depth and review counts
- **Deal sites & bots** — detect discounts the moment they go live
- **Market analysts** — chart what genres are selling, using the Top Sellers list over time
- **AI / dataset builders** — clean structured game metadata with descriptions and tags

### Pricing

Pay per result. You are charged only for rows that come back with data — failed lookups are returned as `error` rows and cost nothing.

### Notes

- Steam rate-limits aggressive clients. This Actor paces requests and rotates proxy IPs automatically; leave the default Apify proxy on.
- Games that are region-locked or delisted return an `error` row rather than failing the whole run.
- Set a **max charge per run** in the run options if you want a hard spend ceiling — the Actor honors it and stops cleanly.

### FAQ

#### Do I need a Steam API key or a Steam account?

No. This uses Steam's own public store endpoints, the same ones the store pages
themselves call, so there is no login, no key and no bot wall.

#### How do I find a game's app ID?

It is in the store URL: `store.steampowered.com/app/1145350/` is app ID
`1145350`. If you only know the name, search by keyword first and the app ID
comes back on every row.

#### Can I get prices for a specific country?

Yes, and this is the main reason to use it over a single-region scraper. Set
`country` to any two-letter code such as `us`, `gb`, `de`, `br`, `tr` or `il`, and Steam
returns that region's price and currency. Run the same `appIds` across several
countries in separate runs to build a regional price-comparison table.

#### Can I detect a discount the moment it goes live?

Schedule a run with your `appIds` and watch `discountPercent` and `price`
against `initialPrice`. Steam exposes those on the store payload, so a scheduled
run every few hours is enough to catch a sale as it starts.

#### Does it return user reviews?

No. It returns `recommendationCount`, meaning how many recommendations a game
has, and `metacriticScore`, but not individual review text.

#### What happens with delisted or region-locked games?

They come back as `error` rows naming the problem, and error rows are never
charged. The rest of the run continues.

#### Can I track what genres are selling over time?

Yes. Set `includeTopSellers: true` on a daily schedule. Each row carries
`topSellerRank` and its genres, so a few weeks of runs gives you your own
sales-trend dataset that Steam does not publish historically.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search the Steam store for, one per line (e.g. "roguelike", "city builder").

## `appIds` (type: `array`):

Steam app IDs to look up directly (e.g. 730 for Counter-Strike 2).

## `includeTopSellers` (type: `boolean`):

Also pull Steam's current Top Sellers, with a topSellerRank on each row. Schedule it daily to track what's selling.

## `maxResultsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

How many games to return per search term (Steam's search returns up to ~100).

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

Two-letter country code — prices and availability differ per region.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Two-letter language code for store text.

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

Proxy settings.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "roguelike"
  ],
  "includeTopSellers": false,
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 20,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Steam games with price, discount, genres, Metacritic score and chart rank.

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "roguelike"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("glitchbound/steam-scraper").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 = { "searchTerms": ["roguelike"] }

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

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "roguelike"
  ]
}' |
apify call glitchbound/steam-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=glitchbound/steam-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/ANCl4ts8dO2mg2Fb7/builds/EnSOUuUzwiZyTw6mB/openapi.json