🎮 RAWG Video Games Scraper

🚀 Export 500,000+ video games to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in seconds. Search by genre, platform, Metacritic score, or release date. No scraping engineering required.

The RAWG Video Games Scraper connects to the RAWG Video Game Database REST API and returns structured game records with 16 fields each, including title, cover image, release date, ESRB rating, Metacritic score, genres, platforms, and average playtime. The RAWG dataset is the largest publicly accessible video game database, maintained by a global community and cited by Yandex, Discord bots, and Reddit recommendation engines worldwide.

The catalog spans every major console generation from Atari to PlayStation 5, covering PC, mobile, and retro platforms. Every record links directly to the game's RAWG page for attribution and further research.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Game developers, market analysts, journalists, data scientists, gaming platforms, content teams, academic researchers	Game catalog enrichment, competitive analysis, genre trend mapping, recommendation engine training data, content generation, store listings

📋 What the RAWG Video Games Scraper does

Six filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Keyword search. Find games by title or keyword (e.g. "Grand Theft Auto", "Witcher", "Zelda").
• 🗂️ Genre filter. Restrict to one or more genre slugs like action, rpg, strategy, or indie.
• 🕹️ Platform filter. Scope to specific platform IDs such as 4 (PC), 187 (PS5), or 18 (PlayStation 4).
• ⭐ Metacritic range. Return only games with a critic score in a given range (e.g. 80,100 for acclaimed titles).
• 📅 Date range. Filter by release window using ISO date pairs (e.g. 2023-01-01,2023-12-31).
• 🔃 Custom ordering. Sort by rating, Metacritic, release date, playtime, relevance, or recently added.

Each record includes image URL, unique ID, slug, release date, user rating, rating count, Metacritic score, average playtime, genres, platforms, ESRB rating, and a direct RAWG URL.

💡 Why it matters: building your own game data pipeline means dealing with authentication, pagination, rate limits, and schema changes. This Actor handles all of that and delivers clean structured data in under a minute. Free API key required - register in 60 seconds at rawg.io.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: genres, imageUrl, metacritic, name, platforms, rating, released, results, scrapedAt, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Get a free RAWG API key at rawg.io/apidocs - registration takes under a minute.
2. Create a free Apify account - includes $5 in free credits.
3. Open the Actor on the Apify Console.
4. Paste your RAWG API key into the apiKey field.
5. Set filters - genre, platform, date range, Metacritic range, ordering, or a search query.
6. Set maxItems - 10 for a preview, up to 1,000,000 for a full export.
7. Click Run and wait a few seconds.
8. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Storage tab.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection to find scrapers for hundreds of data sources - all with the same clean output format and zero-maintenance operation.

Data sourced from the RAWG Video Game Database public API (rawg.io). ParseForge does not claim ownership of any game data or images. All data is attributed to RAWG per their Terms of Service. For commercial use exceeding 100,000 monthly active users, contact api@rawg.io for commercial licensing.

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