Steam Deals & Featured Games Scraper

Scrape Steam deals, discounts and featured games straight from Steam's public storefront API — no API key, no login, no cookies. Get every discounted game with its discount percentage, original price, final price, savings amount, currency, platform availability and discount expiry date, for any Steam country/region.

Perfect for game deal tracking, price comparison sites, affiliate marketing and game market research.

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What this Actor does

The Actor calls Steam's own storefront endpoint (store.steampowered.com/api/featuredcategories) — the exact same JSON the Steam store front page loads in your browser — and turns the raw carousels into one clean, flat record per game.

You choose which categories to pull:

Category key	What you get
specials	Currently discounted games (the classic Steam sale list)
top_sellers	Best-selling games right now
new_releases	Newly released titles
coming_soon	Upcoming, unreleased games
spotlight names	Steam's rotating promo carousels (e.g. Spotlights)

Prices come back in the currency of the country code you pass, so you can compare regional Steam pricing across the US, Germany, Brazil, Japan and more.

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Features

• No API key required — pure public storefront JSON
• Real-time discount data — discount %, original price, final price, savings
• Regional pricing — set any Steam cc code (us, de, gb, br, jp, ru, …)
• Platform flags — Windows / macOS / Linux availability per game
• Discount expiry — Unix expiry converted to a clean ISO-8601 UTC timestamp
• Deduplicated — one record per game per category
• Fast & cheap — a full run costs roughly $0.5 per 1,000 results
• Clean, flat output — ready for Google Sheets, CSV, Excel, JSON, or your own database

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	deals	What to scrape. deals pulls the selected featured/deal categories.
categories	array	["specials","top_sellers","new_releases"]	Steam featured-category keys to scrape.
country	string	us	Two-letter Steam country code controlling region, currency and pricing.
maxItems	integer	200	Maximum number of games pushed to the dataset (max 2000).

Example input

{
  "mode": "deals",
  "categories": ["specials", "top_sellers", "new_releases"],
  "country": "us",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Want German prices in EUR? Just change the country:

{
  "mode": "deals",
  "categories": ["specials"],
  "country": "de",
  "maxItems": 100
}

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Output

Every dataset item is one game:

{
  "app_id": 1091500,
  "name": "Cyberpunk 2077",
  "category": "specials",
  "discounted": true,
  "discount_percent": 70,
  "original_price": 59.99,
  "final_price": 17.99,
  "currency": "USD",
  "savings_amount": 42.0,
  "windows": true,
  "mac": true,
  "linux": false,
  "discount_expires": "2026-08-10T17:00:00+00:00",
  "header_image": "https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1091500/header.jpg",
  "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091500",
  "country": "us",
  "source": "steam",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-28T01:51:49.964026+00:00"
}

Field reference

Field	Description
app_id	Steam application ID
name	Game title
category	Which featured category the game came from
discounted	Whether the game is currently on sale
discount_percent	Discount as an integer percentage (e.g. 70)
original_price	Full price in major currency units
final_price	Current price after discount
currency	ISO currency code for the selected country
savings_amount	original_price − final_price
windows / mac / linux	Platform availability booleans
discount_expires	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp when the sale ends
header_image	Steam capsule/header image URL
url	Direct Steam store page link
country	The Steam cc code used for the run
source	Always steam
scraped_at	ISO-8601 UTC scrape timestamp

All fields are nullable — Steam omits prices for unreleased titles, and discount_expires only exists while a sale is running.

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Use cases

• Game deal tracking — run the Actor on a schedule and alert your users the moment a wishlisted game drops below a target price.
• Price comparison — pull the same specials list across multiple country codes and surface the cheapest Steam region for each title.
• Affiliate sites — power "Today's best Steam deals" pages with fresh discount percentages, savings amounts and header images, fully automated.
• Market research — track discount depth, sale frequency and platform coverage across publishers and genres over time.

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Pricing

Roughly $0.5 per 1,000 results. Runs are short and lightweight (512 MB, a single API call per run), so a typical 200-item deals run costs cents.

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Scheduling

Steam rotates its front page carousels and sale lineup constantly. Use Apify's Schedules to run this Actor hourly or daily and build a historical price database — combine it with the Apify API or an integration (Zapier, Make, Slack, Google Sheets) to push new deals straight to your users.

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Related Actors

• Steam Games Scraper — full game details, tags, reviews and descriptions
• Steam Charts Scraper — concurrent player counts and popularity rankings
• GOG Games Scraper — DRM-free store catalog and discounts
• itch.io Games Scraper — indie game listings and pricing

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FAQ

Do I need a Steam API key? No. This Actor only uses public storefront endpoints that require no authentication.

How many deals can I get? Steam's featured endpoint returns a curated slice of each category (typically 10–30 items per category). Combine several categories and multiple country codes for broader coverage.

Can I get prices in my local currency? Yes — set country to your Steam region code and prices are returned in that region's currency.

Is scraping Steam legal? This Actor only reads publicly available, non-personal store data — the same information any visitor sees on the Steam store page. Always review Steam's terms and use the data responsibly.

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Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the Actor page and it will be addressed quickly.