# Steam Scraper: Games, Prices, Top Sellers & Reviews (`sysco32/steam-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Steam store: top sellers, new releases, specials and upcoming, keyword search and full game details (price, discount, genres, developers, Metacritic, review score). Steam reviews scraper with playtime and votes; schedule it as a Steam price tracker. No login. $1 per 1,000 games.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sysco32/steam-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Gabor Sziladi](https://apify.com/sysco32) (community)
- **Categories:** Games, E-commerce, Developer tools
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 game results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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.
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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

## Steam Scraper: Game Prices, Top Sellers, New Releases & Reviews

Scrape the **Steam store**: the **top sellers**, new releases, specials (discounts) and upcoming charts, **keyword search** with sorting and filters, and full **game details** for any app ID or store URL: price and discount in your country's currency, release date, developers, publishers, genres, categories, platforms, Metacritic score, DLC count and **review score**. Switch to reviews mode to get **user reviews** with playtime, votes and language. No login and no browser needed.

- ✅ Charts: `topsellers`, `globaltopsellers`, `newtrending`, `comingsoon`, `specials`, `toprated`, `newreleases`
- ✅ **Search** by keyword, sorted by relevance, release date, reviews, price or name, with only-discounted and only-free filters
- ✅ **Prices in any country** (`country: de` gives EUR, `gb` gives GBP) with discount %
- ✅ **Review summary**: `review_score_desc` (such as "Very Positive"), `positive_pct` and `total_reviews`
- ✅ **User reviews** mode: text, recommended or not, playtime at review, helpful and funny votes, language, Steam Deck flag
- ✅ **Only new reviews** monitoring for review alerts. You pay only for new reviews.

### Input examples

Top sellers (default):

```json
{
  "mode": "charts",
  "charts": [
    "topsellers"
  ],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "country": "us"
}
```

Best-reviewed roguelikes on sale in Germany:

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerms": [
    "roguelike"
  ],
  "sortBy": "reviews",
  "onlyDiscounted": true,
  "country": "de",
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

Details for specific games (app IDs or store URLs):

```json
{
  "mode": "games",
  "games": [
    "730",
    "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145360/Hades/"
  ]
}
```

Latest negative reviews, as a daily monitor:

```json
{
  "mode": "reviews",
  "games": [
    "1145360"
  ],
  "reviewSentiment": "negative",
  "maxReviewsPerGame": 200,
  "onlyNewReviews": true
}
```

### Output example (real run)

A game (languages shortened):

```json
{
  "record_type": "game",
  "chart": "topsellers",
  "appid": 4435490,
  "search_rank": 1,
  "name": "Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4",
  "search_release_date": "Oct 22, 2026",
  "search_review_summary": "Very Positive",
  "search_positive_pct": 81,
  "search_review_count": 4282,
  "search_price_final": 69.99,
  "search_discount_pct": 0,
  "store_url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/4435490/",
  "type": "game",
  "is_free": false,
  "price_currency": "USD",
  "price_initial": 69.99,
  "price_final": 69.99,
  "discount_pct": 0,
  "price_formatted": "$69.99",
  "release_date": "Oct 22, 2026",
  "coming_soon": false,
  "developers": [
    "Infinity Ward",
    "Beenox",
    "Digital Legends",
    "Activision Shanghai",
    "Raven Software"
  ],
  "publishers": [
    "Activision"
  ],
  "genres": [
    "Action"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Single-player",
    "Multi-player",
    "PvP",
    "Online PvP",
    "Co-op"
  ],
  "platforms": [
    "windows"
  ],
  "metacritic_score": null,
  "metacritic_url": null,
  "recommendations": 8563,
  "achievements": null,
  "dlc_count": 0,
  "required_age": 17,
  "controller_support": "full",
  "supported_languages": "English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Korean * , Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Japanese * , Spanish - Latin America * , Arabic, Simplified Chinese * , Portuguese - Brazil * * languages…",
  "short_description": "War erupts on the Korean Peninsula as North Korea launches an invasion that threatens to destabilize the world in Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4.",
  "website": "https://www.callofduty.com/",
  "header_image": "https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4435490/0c492be3204835d71e8b454b6eb1817f8ff68c0d/header.jpg?t=1792806931",
  "content_descriptors": "Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Drugs",
  "review_score_desc": "Very Positive",
  "total_reviews": 4282,
  "positive_pct": 81,
  "total_positive": 3468,
  "total_negative": 814,
  "review_stats_source": "store",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-25T19:10:44Z"
}
```

A review (`record_type: review`):

```json
{
  "record_type": "review",
  "appid": 1145360,
  "review_id": "236881790",
  "voted_up": false,
  "review": "Gameplay gets boring and repetitive super fast, I wish I would just enjoy it more because all the other aspects of the game seem great, but the gameplay and progression is just so boring to me that I can't bring myself t…",
  "language": "english",
  "created_at": "2026-10-04T13:45:23Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-04T13:45:23Z",
  "votes_helpful": 3,
  "votes_funny": 0,
  "weighted_vote_score": 0.5,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "steam_purchase": true,
  "received_for_free": false,
  "early_access": false,
  "steam_deck": false,
  "author_steamid": "76561198112773213",
  "author_num_reviews": 28,
  "author_num_games_owned": null,
  "playtime_at_review_hours": 6.4,
  "playtime_forever_hours": 8.2,
  "review_url": "https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198112773213/recommended/1145360/",
  "scraped_at": "2026-10-25T19:12:21Z"
}
```

Use the **Games** or **Reviews** views, or export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Game with details and review summary | **$0.001** ($1 per 1,000) |
| User review | $0.0003 ($0.30 per 1,000) |
| Actor start (per run) | $0.002 |

The default run (20 top sellers) costs about $0.022. 1,000 reviews cost $0.30.

### Use cases

- **Game market research**: what sells, at which price, in which genre and country.
- **Price and discount tracking**: daily snapshots of the specials chart or your own watchlist.
- **Player feedback analysis**: negative reviews, playtime and sentiment for your game or competitors.
- **Publisher and investor scouting**: new releases and upcoming games with developer and review data.
- **Datasets for dashboards and AI**: clean game metadata and review text.

### FAQ

**Which data sources are used?** The public Steam store search, the store's `appdetails` endpoint and Steam's official reviews Web API. All are public and need no API key. Requests are rate-limited politely.

**Why are some prices `null`?** Free-to-play games, unreleased games and games not sold in the selected country have no price. `is_free` and `coming_soon` tell you which case it is.

**Where does the review score come from?** From Steam's store summary when available (`review_stats_source: store`), otherwise from the reviews API (`reviews_api`). It matches what you see on the store page for your language setting.

**How many reviews can I get?** As many as you set in `maxReviewsPerGame`. The Actor pages through Steam's reviews API with cursors.

### Related actors

More Actors by the same author:

- [Apple App Store Scraper (sysco32/apple-app-store-scraper)](https://apify.com/sysco32/apple-app-store-scraper): top charts, keyword ranks, app details, developer portfolios and reviews.
- [Apple Podcasts Scraper (sysco32/apple-podcasts-scraper)](https://apify.com/sysco32/apple-podcasts-scraper): podcasts by keyword or top chart, enriched from RSS with owner email and activity stats.

### Need a custom scraper or data pipeline?

If you need data from another game store or website, extra fields, or the results delivered to Google Sheets, a database or an n8n workflow on a schedule, I take custom projects on Fiverr: [Python scraping scripts and n8n automation workflows](https://www.fiverr.com/sysco32/build-python-scraping-scripts-and-n8n-automation-workflows). Public data only; message me with the details first and I'll confirm whether it's doable.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Choose one mode. Each mode uses the options in its section below.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum games per chart or per search term.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter store country code for prices and currency, e.g. <code>us</code>, <code>gb</code>, <code>de</code>, <code>pl</code>, <code>br</code>, <code>jp</code>.

## `charts` (type: `array`):

Steam store lists in their live ranking order.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords, e.g. <code>roguelike</code>, <code>city builder</code>, <code>survival</code>.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of search results.

## `onlyDiscounted` (type: `boolean`):

Search only games currently on sale.

## `onlyFree` (type: `boolean`):

Search only free-to-play games.

## `tagIds` (type: `array`):

Optional tag filter for search, e.g. <code>1695</code> (Open World), <code>492</code> (Indie), <code>3871</code> (2D), <code>1664</code> (Puzzle). Tag IDs are in Steam search URLs (<code>tags=</code>).

## `games` (type: `array`):

For the <b>Specific games</b> and <b>User reviews</b> modes, e.g. <code>730</code> or <code>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145360/Hades/</code>.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each game's store details: price and discount, developers, publishers, genres, categories, platforms, release date, Metacritic, achievements, DLC count, languages, description and images. Turn off for a faster, list-only run.

## `includeReviewSummary` (type: `boolean`):

Add the Steam review score (e.g. 'Very Positive'), total, positive and negative review counts and positive % (all languages).

## `language` (type: `string`):

Steam language name for descriptions, e.g. <code>english</code>, <code>german</code>, <code>polish</code>, <code>schinese</code>.

## `maxReviewsPerGame` (type: `integer`):

Upper limit of reviews per game (reviews mode).

## `reviewSort` (type: `string`):

Steam's review ordering.

## `reviewLanguage` (type: `string`):

Steam language name (<code>english</code>, <code>german</code>, <code>polish</code>…) or <code>all</code>.

## `reviewSentiment` (type: `string`):

Keep only positive or negative reviews.

## `reviewsMaxAgeDays` (type: `integer`):

With 'Newest first': stop at reviews older than N days. 0 = no limit.

## `onlyNewReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Remember the reviews already delivered per game and return only new ones in later runs (best with 'Newest first'). Schedule daily for review alerts and sentiment tracking.

## `stateStoreName` (type: `string`):

Named key-value store for seen reviews. Use a different name for each independent monitor.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "charts",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "country": "us",
  "charts": [
    "topsellers"
  ],
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "onlyDiscounted": false,
  "onlyFree": false,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "includeReviewSummary": true,
  "language": "english",
  "maxReviewsPerGame": 100,
  "reviewSort": "recent",
  "reviewLanguage": "english",
  "reviewSentiment": "all",
  "reviewsMaxAgeDays": 0,
  "onlyNewReviews": false,
  "stateStoreName": "steam-scraper-seen"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `games` (type: `string`):

Games with prices and review scores

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

User reviews

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Records per task, failed inputs with error messages.

# 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 = {
    "mode": "charts",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "country": "us",
    "charts": [
        "topsellers"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sysco32/steam-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 = {
    "mode": "charts",
    "maxResults": 20,
    "country": "us",
    "charts": ["topsellers"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sysco32/steam-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 '{
  "mode": "charts",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "country": "us",
  "charts": [
    "topsellers"
  ]
}' |
apify call sysco32/steam-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sysco32/steam-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/6TWX0clp1ogEaugpr/builds/MVG7g8WED5JkD7hdT/openapi.json