Steam Reviews Scraper — Exact Date Windows, No Key

Scrape reviews for any game on Steam. Give it an app id or a store URL and get back the review text, the verdict, the vote counts, and a full author block — playtime, review history, Steam profile. No API key, no login, no cookies.

Ask for a date range and get that date range. Steam's own day_range filter leaks badly — asking for 3 days returned reviews up to 3,515 days old, and a 30-day request let 33 of 60 through from outside the window — so this scraper does not use it at all. It walks reviews newest-first and enforces your window itself. Anything outside is never delivered and never charged, and the run log says how many were trimmed.

What you can filter on

Field	Type	Default	Notes
appIds	array	— (required)	Numeric ids (570), store pages (store.steampowered.com/app/292030/…), community reviews pages (steamcommunity.com/app/1091500/reviews/) or old review API URLs (store.steampowered.com/appreviews/730?json=1). Several games per run; a game listed twice is scraped once
maxItems	integer	1000 (the form starts at 100)	Cap per game: 4 games at 1000 can return up to 4,000. A run spending limit is shared evenly across the games
language	select	all	Steam language code, or every language
reviewType	select	all	Positive only, negative only, or both
purchaseType	select	all	Bought on Steam, activated from a key, or either
onlyReviewsAfter	date	—	Start of the window, e.g. 2026-01-01
onlyReviewsBefore	date	—	End of the window; a bare date includes that whole day
includeOffTopic	boolean	false	Include bursts Steam classes as off-topic review bombing

All of these are verified live, not assumed. On The Witcher 3: negative returned 200 rows with none recommended, positive + german returned 100 with all recommended and all German, and non_steam_purchase returned 100 with none marked as a Steam purchase.

One caveat worth knowing. purchaseType only separates anything on a paid game. Every acquisition of a free-to-play title counts as a Steam purchase, so on something like Dota 2 all three settings return identical rows. That is Steam's behaviour, not a bug here.

Old windows are as fast as new ones. The date window is sent to Steam, which starts the walk at the window instead of at today. A three-day window from January 2016 on The Witcher 3 came back in 4 requests: 251 reviews, the exact count Steam reports for those days. The run log prints that count up front, and every row is still checked against your dates before it is pushed or charged.

What you get per review

Review: id, permalink, text, language, recommended or not, created and updated timestamps.

Engagement: helpful votes, funny votes, Steam's weighted vote score, comment count.

Context flags: bought on Steam, received free, written during early access, played mainly on Steam Deck, refunded.

Author: Steam id, profile URL, reviews written, and playtime (at the time of the review, lifetime, last two weeks, and on Steam Deck at the time of the review), reported in hours rather than Steam's raw minutes. Steam stopped sending games owned in October 2026, so authorNumGamesOwned is empty.

Also: the developer's reply and when it was posted, and the reviewer's hardware when they chose to show it.

Example input

{
  "appIds": ["292030"],
  "maxItems": 500,
  "language": "english",
  "reviewType": "negative",
  "onlyReviewsAfter": "2026-06-01",
  "onlyReviewsBefore": "2026-08-31"
}

Notes

• Steam's public review API (IUserReviewsService/GetAppReviews) is called directly, without a key, so runs are fast and need no proxy. Steam retired the older store.steampowered.com/appreviews endpoint on 22 October 2026.
• Reviews are deduplicated by recommendationid within a run.
• Cursor pagination stops when Steam stops advancing the cursor, rather than spinning on the last page.
• A run that finds nothing says why in its status rather than returning a silent empty dataset.