Steam store games — search, details, prices (public store APIs)

One row per Steam app found by your search terms or given by appid — appid, name, type (game / dlc / demo / music / …), free flag, price (list, final, discount % and currency for the country you choose), release date, developers, publishers, genres, categories, platforms, Metacritic score and URL, recommendation count, short description, header image and store URL. Read from Steam's own public store endpoints — no login, no Steam Web API key, no scraping of HTML pages beyond the store's search list.

The default input (term farming, US prices, 100 apps) succeeds within 5 minutes (about 2.5 minutes at the default 1.5 s spacing) and returns rows — Apify auto-tests it daily.

Data source and status

Publisher	Valve Corporation (Steam store)
Endpoints	store.steampowered.com/search/results/?json=1 (store search list, 50 per page, apps only) and store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=<id>&cc=<country> (one app per call, the full record) — both public, undocumented but stable for years; storesearch is not used because it is capped at 10 results per term
Rate	Steam throttles appdetails at roughly 200 calls per 5 minutes per IP; the Actor spaces calls 1.5 s apart by default and waits 60 s when Steam answers 429 or 403
Refresh cadence	Live on every run; prices and discounts are what the store serves for country_code at fetched_at
Terms	Steam store content is Valve's and its partners'; use of the store is subject to the Steam Subscriber Agreement (https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/). This Actor reads only what the public store serves to any visitor and copies no images — header_image is a URL
Known caveats	Apps Steam answers success: false for (unknown, delisted, region-locked, age-gated in some regions) are skipped and listed in RUN_SUMMARY.unavailable_appids; price_* are null for free and unreleased apps; metacritic_score and recommendations are null when Steam has none; packages and bundles in the search list are skipped (apps only); the search list order is Steam's, so "relevance" can shift between runs

Honesty note: the rows are Steam's own appdetails fields flattened — prices are the store's integer minor units ÷ 100, nothing is inferred or estimated, and a run stops with an error rather than guess when the endpoints' shape changes.

Identification: the requests carry a product-token User-Agent and the operator's contact address in the standard From: header (RFC 9110 §10.1.2).

Input

Field	Type	Meaning
search_terms	array	Store search terms; each paged 50 at a time until max_records
app_ids	array	Optional appids fetched first (e.g. 620)
country_code	string	Two-letter store region for prices, default us
sort	select	relevance (default), released_desc, released_asc, name_asc, price_asc, price_desc, reviews_desc
max_records	integer	Default 100, at most 2,000 (≈ 25 min per 1,000)
request_interval_ms	integer	Default 1500 (floor 1000)
contact_email	string	Sent in the From: header

Example — best-reviewed roguelikes with UK prices, plus Portal 2 and Dota 2 by id:

{ "search_terms": ["roguelike"], "app_ids": ["620", "570"], "country_code": "gb", "sort": "reviews_desc", "max_records": 40 }

Output (dataset row)

appid, name, type, is_free, price_initial, price_final, discount_percent, currency, price_final_formatted, country_code, release_date (Steam's display string, e.g. Oct 10, 2007), coming_soon, developers, publishers, genres, categories, platforms (windows / mac / linux), metacritic_score, metacritic_url, recommendations, required_age, short_description (≤ 3,000 chars, HTML stripped), header_image (URL), website, parent_appid (for DLC / soundtracks), store_url, matched_term, fetched_at, source.

A run summary (terms and Steam's own result totals, candidates, rows, unavailable appids, requests, throttle waits, whether the pay-per-event budget stopped the run) is stored as RUN_SUMMARY in the run's key-value store.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
run-start — once per run	$0.10
record — per app row written	$0.005

The default pull (100 apps) costs at most $0.60; 1,000 apps cost $5.10. Rows stop when your run's maximum charge is reached; the run summary says so.

Operator

Steelyard Ventures LLC (RetrainMap) — info@steelyardclinical.com. Not affiliated with Valve Corporation or Steam. The Actor writes only to its own dataset and key-value store; it stores no credentials and sends nothing else.