# itch.io Games Scraper (`scrapyx/itchio-games-scraper`) Actor

Indie game listings from itch.io: browse any genre/tag/platform/free page, with title, author, price and platforms from the list, plus optional full detail per game (price, rating, tags, tools used, dev status, description).

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapyx/itchio-games-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ibnu Adzim](https://apify.com/scrapyx) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.56 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## itch.io Games Scraper

Indie game listings from [itch.io](https://itch.io) — browse any
genre/tag/platform/free page, with optional full detail per game.

***

### What you get

**`browseUrls`** — one `SEARCH_SUMMARY` + N `GAME` rows per browse URL.
Each `GAME` row always has the list-card fields (title, author, price
tag text, genre, platforms, thumbnail). When `includeGameDetails` is on
(default), it's enriched with price/rating (`product`, raw JSON-LD),
the full info panel (`infoPanel`: dev status, tags, tools used,
languages, playtime, etc. — whatever itch.io's own table shows for that
game), and `fullDescription`.

Pagination is real and honest here — `?page=N` genuinely advances and
ends with a real 404, not a clamp — so a browse URL with more results
than one page pages through them automatically up to
`maxItemsPerQuery`.

***

### Input

```jsonc
{
  "browseUrls": ["https://itch.io/games/free"],
  "includeGameDetails": true,
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 36
}
```

- **`browseUrls`** — any itch.io `/games...` URL. This actor doesn't
  build filter URLs itself (itch.io has too many genre/tag/platform/
  price/sort combinations to reinvent) — browse itch.io in your browser
  and paste the resulting URL.
- **`includeGameDetails`** — `true` costs one extra request per returned
  row for price/rating/full detail; `false` returns list-card fields
  only.
- **`maxItemsPerQuery`** — caps rows per browse URL, paging as needed
  (36 rows/page, itch.io's own page size).

***

### Known limits

**1. `browseUrls` must be a real itch.io `/games...` path.** Other
paths (including `/search`, which itch.io's own `robots.txt` disallows)
are refused before any request.

**2. Price absence means free, not "$0.00".** A game's price tag is
simply not present in the list card when the game is free — this
actor's `priceTag` field is `None` for those, not a zero-value string.

**3. `product` and `infoPanel` are raw, not flattened.** `infoPanel`'s
keys are itch.io's own row labels for that specific game (varies —
"Average session" only appears if the developer disclosed a playtime
estimate, for example), not a fixed schema.

***

### Errors are honest, no disguised-200 traps

An invalid browse URL (e.g. a genre that doesn't exist) gets a genuine
404 → `ERROR` row, not a silent fallback to a different listing. A game
removed between the list fetch and the detail fetch is reported per-row
via `_detailError`, without failing the whole query.

### Anti-bot posture

**None encountered.** 3/3 `curl_cffi` TLS profiles clean 200 on both the
main itch.io host and a creator subdomain detail page.

### Policy

`https://itch.io/robots.txt` has a single `User-agent: *` group —
`/games...` browse paths and creator subdomains are not disallowed
(only `/search`, `/embed/`, `/checkout/`, and a few purchase/download
paths this actor never touches).

# Actor input Schema

## `browseUrls` (type: `array`):

Any itch.io '/games...' browse URL: 'https://itch.io/games' (everything), 'https://itch.io/games/genre-platformer', 'https://itch.io/games/free', 'https://itch.io/games/tag-multiplayer', etc. itch.io has many genre/tag/platform/price/sort combinations -- browse itch.io in your browser and paste the resulting URL rather than this actor guessing at filter parameters. Each entry gets its own SEARCH\_SUMMARY + GAME rows, with real pagination up to 'maxItemsPerQuery' (confirmed honest: no clamp, a real 404 past the last page).

## `includeGameDetails` (type: `boolean`):

When true, each returned game gets one extra request to its own page (hosted on the creator's itch.io subdomain) for price/rating (JSON-LD) and the full info panel: dev status, tags, tools used, languages, playtime, full description. When false, only the fast list-card fields are returned (title, author, price tag text, platforms, thumbnail) -- no extra requests.

## `maxItemsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Caps rows per browse URL, paging as needed (36 games per page, itch.io's own page size). 0 = no explicit cap (still bounded by a safety net).

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many requests may be in flight at once. This absorbs latency variance; it is NOT the throttle — the crawl rate is set by 'Minimum interval between requests' below.

## `minRequestInterval` (type: `number`):

The actual speed control: the shortest gap between two requests, across all workers. No WAF or rate-limiting was observed during testing, so this is modest routine pacing rather than a defensive measure.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential with no country pin is the cloud default. No WAF was observed during testing (3/3 TLS profiles clean on both the main site and a creator subdomain detail page).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "browseUrls": [
    "https://itch.io/games/free"
  ],
  "includeGameDetails": true,
  "maxItemsPerQuery": 36,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "minRequestInterval": 0.5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

One row per scraped record. See the dataset's default view for field definitions.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "browseUrls": [
        "https://itch.io/games/free"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapyx/itchio-games-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "browseUrls": ["https://itch.io/games/free"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapyx/itchio-games-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "browseUrls": [
    "https://itch.io/games/free"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapyx/itchio-games-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapyx/itchio-games-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/rsYk3AJoSDfmLIia2/builds/5RIZysBiY6qWoRv9v/openapi.json