Steam Reviews and Game Details Scraper

Collects user reviews and store listings from Steam for any app, in one run. For each app you ask for, the actor optionally emits the game's store details first and then walks its reviews, so a single dataset carries both what a game is and what players say about it.

No Steam account, API key or login is needed. Both endpoints this actor reads are public.

What you get

Every record carries a type field, which is either game or review.

type: "review"

Field	Meaning
recommendation_id	Steam's own ID for the review. Unique, and what de-duplication is keyed on.
app_id	The app the review is about.
review	The review text.
voted_up	true for Recommended, false for Not Recommended.
language	Steam language code, e.g. english, schinese.
votes_up, votes_funny	Helpful and funny vote counts.
weighted_vote_score	Steam's helpfulness score, 0-1. Always a number here; Steam itself sends it as a string on some reviews and a float on others.
comment_count	Comments on the review.
timestamp_created, timestamp_updated	Unix seconds.
steam_purchase	true if bought on Steam, false if a key was activated elsewhere.
received_for_free, refunded, written_during_early_access, primarily_steam_deck	Steam's own flags.
author_steamid	The reviewer's 64-bit SteamID.
author_playtime_at_review_minutes	Playtime in minutes when the review was written.
author_playtime_forever_minutes, author_playtime_last_two_weeks_minutes	Playtime in minutes.
author_num_games_owned, author_num_reviews, author_last_played	Reviewer profile figures.

type: "game"

Field	Meaning
app_id, name	Identity.
app_type	game, dlc, demo, music, video, hardware or mod.
is_free	Free-to-play flag.
release_date, coming_soon	Release date as Steam formats it, and whether it is still unreleased.
developers, publishers	Lists of names.
genres, categories	Lists of labels, e.g. Action, Multi-player.
platforms	Any of windows, mac, linux.
price_final, price_initial	Price in the smallest currency unit - 3999 means $39.99.
price_currency	ISO code the price is quoted in. See the note on countryCode below.
price_discount_percent, price_formatted	Current discount, and the price as Steam displays it.
metacritic_score, metacritic_url	Metacritic rating, when the app has one.
recommendations_total	Steam's total review count for the app.
required_age, short_description, website, header_image, supported_languages	Store listing extras.

Fields that can be missing, and why they are null and not 0

Steam does not report these for every app. Where it does not, the field is null. A 0 would read as a measurement - "this game costs nothing", "this game scored zero on Metacritic" - and those are different claims from "Steam did not say".

• price_* is null for free-to-play games (Steam sends no price block at all), for unreleased games, and for games not sold in the country you asked for.
• metacritic_score and metacritic_url are null for most apps. Only a minority have a Metacritic entry.
• recommendations_total is null for apps with too few reviews for Steam to publish a total.
• website, required_age and the playtime fields are absent on some records and stay null.

Pricing currency depends on where the request comes from

Steam's details endpoint quotes prices in the currency of whichever address the request leaves from. With a rotating residential proxy that means the same game can come back in USD on one run and MXN on the next. The countryCode input pins it - it defaults to US, and price_currency always states what was actually returned.

Looking games up by name

Set searchTerms and the actor resolves each name to an app ID through Steam's own store search - the same endpoint the store's search box calls, which needs no credentials. It is a fuzzy relevance search, not an exact lookup: it takes the top-ranked match, so searching witcher 3 can land on the base game or on a DLC depending on how Steam ranks them that day. An exact appIds entry is always the more precise input, and names that resolve to nothing are logged and skipped rather than guessed at.

Filters

language, reviewType and purchaseType were each verified against the live endpoint to actually change the result rather than being silently ignored. One caveat on purchaseType: free-to-play titles have no product-key activations, so every review is a Steam purchase and the filter appears to do nothing there. It works normally on paid games.

Reviews are read in recent order rather than Steam's default relevance ordering, because relevance is not a stable sort between requests and paging through it revisits some reviews while skipping others.

Cost and de-duplication

You are charged once per record actually delivered to the dataset: one item-scraped per game and one review-scraped per review, both after the record is pushed. Reviews are de-duplicated on recommendation_id before charging, so a review Steam serves on two pages is billed once.

A run that legitimately finds nothing - an app with no reviews matching your filters - pushes nothing and charges nothing beyond the actor start fee.