Steam Store Game Catalog & Metadata Scraper

Crawl Steam's full game catalog and return rich structured metadata per app. Supports keyword search, direct App ID list input, or full-catalog mode via Steam's store search pagination. Powered by Steam's public appdetails API — no authentication required.

What It Does

For each Steam app discovered (or provided), this actor fetches:

• Core metadata: name, type (game / DLC / software / demo), developer, publisher, release date
• Descriptions: short marketing description and full HTML description
• Genres & categories: genre labels and Steam feature categories
• Platforms: Windows / Mac / Linux support flags
• Metacritic: score and URL (when available)
• Pricing: default price overview plus a configurable multi-country regional pricing matrix
• DLC tree: list of all DLC app IDs linked to the title
• Community: total Steam recommendations and achievements count
• Media: header image URL, screenshot list, and movie/trailer list
• Languages: supported languages string
• Age rating: required age gate value and controller support level

Use Cases

• Game database building: assemble a structured catalog of all Steam games for a RAWG/IGDB-style database
• Pricing intelligence: track regional price differences and discount patterns across countries
• Market analysis: analyze genre/category distributions, platform coverage, and Metacritic trends
• Game discovery apps: power recommendation engines with rich metadata
• DLC mapping: build a complete DLC tree for franchise analysis

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Keyword filter (e.g. "open world rpg"). Leave empty for full catalog.
appIds	array	Specific Steam App IDs to fetch (overrides searchQuery). One ID per entry.
countryCodes	array	ISO country codes for regional pricing (default: us, gb, de). Leave empty to skip.
maxItems	integer	Maximum records to return (required).
maxConcurrency	integer	Concurrent API requests (default 5).

Output

Each record corresponds to one Steam app:

{
  "steam_appid": 730,
  "name": "Counter-Strike 2",
  "type": "game",
  "is_free": true,
  "developers": "Valve",
  "publishers": "Valve",
  "release_date": "27 Sep, 2023",
  "genres": "Action, Free to Play",
  "categories": "Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Steam Achievements, Full controller support",
  "platforms": "{\"windows\":true,\"mac\":false,\"linux\":true}",
  "recommendations_total": 1520340,
  "achievements_total": 167,
  "regional_prices": "{\"us\":{\"currency\":\"USD\",\"initial\":0,\"final\":0,\"discount_percent\":0},...}",
  "header_image": "https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/...",
  "source_url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/730/"
}

Rate Limits

Steam enforces approximately 200 appdetails requests per 5 minutes per IP. The actor uses a 1.6-second inter-request delay by default. For large-scale catalog runs, set maxConcurrency to 1-3. Regional pricing fan-out adds one API call per country code per app.

Notes

• Apps with success: false in the Steam API response are silently skipped
• Price fields are in the currency's smallest unit (e.g. cents: 999 = $9.99)
• Free-to-play apps have is_free: true and price_overview: null