🎮 Steam Reviews Scraper

This actor allows you to scrape game reviews from Steam Community by providing a reviews page URL. It automatically handles pagination and extracts comprehensive review information including ratings, helpful counts, author details, and developer responses.

Features

• URL-based Scraping: Extract reviews by providing a complete Steam Community reviews page URL
• Automatic Pagination: Automatically scrolls and loads more reviews until reaching the end or max items limit
• Comprehensive Review Data: Extract detailed information about each review including:
  • Review text and title
  • Recommendation status (Recommended/Not Recommended)
  • Helpful count and award count
  • Hours played on record
  • Review date
  • Author information (name, profile, avatar, products owned)
  • Developer responses
  • Comment counts
• Smart Deduplication: Automatically removes duplicate reviews based on detail page URLs

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Description
searchUrl	string	Yes	Complete Steam Community reviews page URL
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum number of reviews to fetch (default: unlimited)
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings for the actor

How to Get Reviews URL

1. Go to Steam Community
2. Navigate to any game's reviews page
3. You can filter by different criteria (Most Helpful, Recent, etc.)
4. Copy the complete URL from your browser's address bar
5. Paste it into the searchUrl field

Example review URLs:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/3581600/reviews/?browsefilter=toprated&snr=1_5_100010_
https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/reviews/?browsefilter=mostrecent
https://steamcommunity.com/app/271590/reviews/?browsefilter=mosthelpful

Output

The output is a dataset of review objects, each containing:

• searchUrl: The original reviews page URL used
• detailPageUrl: Direct link to the review detail page
• helpfulCount: Number of people who found the review helpful
• awardCount: Number of awards given to the review
• isRecommended: Boolean indicating if the review recommends the game
• recommendedType: Type of recommendation ("positive" or "negative")
• hoursOnRecord: Number of hours the reviewer has played the game
• title: Review title ("Recommended" or "Not Recommended")
• datePosted: Date when the review was posted
• reviewText: The actual review content
• developerResponse: Developer's response to the review (if available)
• author: Author information object containing:
  • name: Reviewer's Steam username
  • profileUrl: Link to reviewer's Steam profile
  • avatar: URL of reviewer's avatar image
  • productsInAccount: Number of products in reviewer's account
• commentsCount: Number of comments on the review
• scrapedAt: Timestamp of when the review was scraped

Example output:

[
  {
    "searchUrl": "https://steamcommunity.com/app/3581600/reviews/?browsefilter=toprated&snr=1_5_100010_",
    "detailPageUrl": "https://steamcommunity.com/id/sinecostan/recommended/3581600/",
    "helpfulCount": 11,
    "awardCount": 0,
    "isRecommended": true,
    "recommendedType": "negative",
    "hoursOnRecord": 0.2,
    "title": "Not Recommended",
    "datePosted": "13 August",
    "reviewText": "mobile trash ported to steam, yucky do not play",
    "developerResponse": "A developer has responded to this review",
    "author": {
      "name": "Vitamin R",
      "profileUrl": "https://steamcommunity.com/id/sinecostan/",
      "avatar": "https://avatars.akamai.steamstatic.com/cd36dde8ac34e76ff9fd5731c380e1474d14684e.jpg",
      "productsInAccount": "2,164 products in account"
    },
    "commentsCount": 0,
    "scrapedAt": "2025-11-11T08:28:58.633Z"
  },
  ...
]

Use Cases

• Game review analysis and sentiment tracking
• Competitive research for game developers
• Review quality assessment
• Customer feedback analysis
• Market research for gaming industry
• Review moderation and monitoring
• Developer response tracking
• Review helpfulness analysis

Notes

• Results are automatically paginated until reaching the end or max items limit
• All timestamps are in ISO 8601 format
• The actor handles network delays and timeouts gracefully
• Reviews are deduplicated based on their detail page URLs
• Developer responses are included when available
• Hours played information helps assess review credibility

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