Steam Games Scraper — Prices, Genres & Metacritic

Search the Steam store and pull clean, structured JSON with full game data: name, price and discount, developers, publishers, genres, categories, platforms, Metacritic score, release date, description and store link. It runs over Steam's public store API, so it's fast and needs no account and no API key. Built for price tracking, market research and building game catalogs — with per-country pricing.

Features

• 💰 Pricing & discounts — price, priceCents, currency and discountPct, localized by country.
• 🏷️ Full taxonomy — genres, categories, platforms, developers and publishers per game.
• ⭐ Metacritic & reviews — metacritic score, metacriticUrl and total recommendations.
• 🆔 Target exact titles — pass Steam app IDs or store.steampowered.com/app/... URLs in appIds.
• 🌍 Regional pricing — set country (e.g. us, gb, de, br) to get the right currency.
• 🎚️ Volume control — maxGamesPerSearch (1–100) caps top results per search term.
• 🧱 Flat, normalized JSON — cleaned description and supported languages, ready to use.

What you get

One flat JSON record per game. Example:

{
  "appId": 620,
  "name": "Portal 2",
  "type": "game",
  "isFree": false,
  "price": "$9.99",
  "priceCents": 999,
  "currency": "USD",
  "discountPct": 0,
  "developers": ["Valve"],
  "publishers": ["Valve"],
  "genres": ["Action", "Adventure"],
  "categories": ["Single-player", "Co-op", "Steam Achievements"],
  "platforms": ["windows", "mac", "linux"],
  "metacritic": 95,
  "metacriticUrl": "https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/portal-2",
  "recommendations": 285000,
  "requiredAge": 0,
  "releaseDate": "18 Apr, 2011",
  "comingSoon": false,
  "website": "http://www.thinkwithportals.com/",
  "headerImage": "https://cdn.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/620/header.jpg",
  "shortDescription": "The Portal 2 single-player campaign introduces new characters and puzzles.",
  "supportedLanguages": "English, French, German, ...",
  "dlcCount": 1,
  "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/620"
}

Output schema

Field	Type	Description
appId	integer	Steam application ID.
name	string	Game title.
type	string	Item type (game, dlc, etc.).
isFree	boolean	Whether the game is free to play.
price	string	Localized display price.
priceCents	integer	Price in the smallest currency unit (cents).
currency	string	Currency code for the price.
discountPct	integer	Current discount percentage.
developers	array	Development studios.
publishers	array	Publishers.
genres	array	Store genres.
categories	array	Store feature categories (single-player, co-op, etc.).
platforms	array	Supported platforms (windows, mac, linux).
metacritic	integer	Metacritic score.
metacriticUrl	string (URL)	Link to the Metacritic page.
recommendations	integer	Number of user recommendations.
requiredAge	integer	Minimum required age.
releaseDate	string	Release date as shown on the store.
comingSoon	boolean	Whether the game is unreleased or coming soon.
website	string (URL)	Official game website.
headerImage	string (URL)	Store header image URL.
shortDescription	string	Short store description.
supportedLanguages	string	Supported languages list.
dlcCount	integer	Number of DLC items.
url	string (URL)	Link to the store page.

Input

{
  "searches": ["portal", "roguelike", "stardew"],
  "appIds": [],
  "maxGamesPerSearch": 20,
  "country": "us"
}

Field	Description
searches	Game titles or keywords to search on the Steam store, one per line.
appIds	Specific Steam app IDs or store URLs (optional).
maxGamesPerSearch	How many top results to fetch per search term (1–100).
country	Two-letter country code for pricing/currency (e.g. us, gb, de, br).

Use cases

• Track prices and discounts across regions with per-country runs.
• Build a game catalog with genres, categories, platforms and Metacritic scores.
• Research a genre's top titles by recommendations and reviews.
• Enrich a games dataset with developers, publishers and release dates.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you're billed a small amount per run and per item scraped — you only pay for what you get. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

FAQ

Do I need a Steam account or API key? No. The Actor runs over Steam's public store API, so there's no account, no login and no API key to set up.

How many games can I get per run? Set maxGamesPerSearch (1–100) to cap top results per search term. Pass multiple keywords in searches, or target exact appIds, to scale a single run.

Can I download games or game files? No. This Actor returns public store metadata only — prices, genres, platforms, Metacritic scores and descriptions. It does not download any game files or DRM-protected content.

What's the output format? Flat, normalized JSON with one record per game and consistent fields, ready for a database or spreadsheet. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Can I get regional pricing? Yes. Set country (e.g. us, gb, de, br) to get localized price, priceCents, currency and discountPct for each game.

Can I connect this to other apps? The Steam Games Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

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Notes

This Actor uses Steam's public store API and returns public store metadata only — no game files or DRM-protected content. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Valve or Steam; all trademarks belong to their respective owners.