Steam Game Reviews Scraper

Collect public reviews for Steam app IDs into an exportable dataset. Useful for game feedback research, competitor comparisons, patch-feedback checks and localization research.

This Actor uses Valve's current IUserReviewsService/GetAppReviews/v1 API, not the deprecated Steam store /appreviews route. It requires no Steam login, browser, proxy purchase or API key. It collects source data, not AI sentiment or a complete history guarantee.

Pricing

$0.50 per 1,000 successful reviews. $0.003 per run. Standard-run platform usage is included. Only successful eligible rows in the default dataset trigger the result charge. Error, not-found, skipped and robots-denied diagnostics do not trigger a result charge. The run fee, where listed, still applies to empty or failed runs. Memory is limited to 256–512 MB. Set a maximum run cost in Apify; inspect the actual dataset and run charge breakdown after an interruption. Input item limits bound work and do not replace the run spending limit.

Quick start

Find an app ID in its Steam store address, such as 570 in https://store.steampowered.com/app/570/.

{
  "appIds": [570],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "maxTotalReviews": 100,
  "languages": ["english"],
  "sort": "recent",
  "reviewType": "all",
  "purchaseType": "all"
}

Run the Actor, open Review dataset, then export JSON, CSV or Excel using Apify. Also inspect Status and collection limits for failures and stopping reasons. All exported counts refer to this run, not lifetime totals.

For negative feedback in a date window:

{
  "appIds": [570, 730],
  "languages": ["all"],
  "sort": "recent",
  "reviewType": "negative",
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-31",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "maxTotalReviews": 400
}

Dates are UTC and include both boundary days. Both dates are required. They filter when a review was created, including when sorting by update time.

Input reference

Field	Default	Meaning and limit
appIds	Required	1–20 integer Steam app IDs; duplicates removed. URLs and numeric strings are not accepted.
maxReviewsPerApp	100	1–1,000 saved reviews per app.
maxTotalReviews	1,000	1–5,000 saved reviews across the whole run. Apps processed in input order.
maxPagesPerApp	10	1–50 pages per app. Each page requests at most 100 reviews and never more than remaining output capacity.
languages	["english"]	1–10 Steam API codes, e.g. english, german, french, schinese. ["all"] requests every language. Unknown codes may yield no matches.
sort	recent	recent, updated, helpful or funny. Recent/updated are recommended for paging.
reviewType	all	all, positive or negative. The recommendation is Valve's thumbs-up/down, not inferred sentiment.
purchaseType	all	all, steam or non_steam.
filterOfftopicActivity	true	Whether Steam excludes activity it labels off-topic.
dayRange	30	Helpful sort only: 0–365 days. Zero is unrestricted. Steam can broaden the window when necessary.
dateFrom, dateTo	Unset	Paired YYYY-MM-DD creation-date boundaries.
playtimeMinHours, playtimeMaxHours	Unset	Whole hours at review time, between 0 and 1,000,000. Minimum cannot exceed maximum.
primarilySteamDeck	false	If true, only reviews from primarily Steam Deck players. False applies no Deck filter.
includeAuthorIds	false	Opt in to public author Steam IDs and author-based review links.
requestDelayMillis	1,500	1,000–10,000 ms minimum spacing between requests.

Unsupported fields cause validation failure before any network request. Publisher keys, cookies and arbitrary endpoints are intentionally unsupported.

Output

The default dataset has one row for each distinct app ID and review ID found during this run. IDs remain strings to preserve 64-bit precision. Missing optional values are null; zero and false are retained.

Fields include:

• appId, appUrl, reviewId, review, language, recommended.
• createdAt, updatedAt, timestampCreated, timestampUpdated. ISO dates are UTC; timestamps are Unix seconds.
• votesHelpful, votesFunny, weightedVoteScore, commentCount.
• steamPurchase, receivedForFree, writtenDuringEarlyAccess, primarilySteamDeck, refunded.
• developerResponse, developerRespondedAt when provided by Steam.
• playtimeForeverMinutes, playtimeLastTwoWeeksMinutes, playtimeAtReviewMinutes, deckPlaytimeAtReviewMinutes, authorPublicReviewCount, lastPlayedAt.
• authorSteamId and reviewUrl, null by default and populated only when includeAuthorIds is enabled and Steam supplies an ID.
• source and collectedAt for provenance.

All playtime output fields use minutes, although input playtime filters use hours. Review text is original text and may include formatting, URLs or offensive language; escape it before displaying it in HTML.

Summary

The SUMMARY key-value record contains overall status, request-attempt count, applied filters, timestamps and per-app information:

• reviewsCollected, pagesFetched, duplicatesSkipped.
• querySummary: Steam's first-page summary, retained without reinterpretation. The aggregate score fields may be absent when filtering positive or negative reviews.
• dayRangeUsed: the effective Helpful window from Steam, if supplied.
• totalMatching: the matching total returned by Steam, if available. This is not a promise that the run collected all of them.
• status: success, partial, error or skipped.
• stopReason: empty_page, review_limit, global_limit, page_limit, repeated_cursor, missing_cursor, no_new_reviews, rate_limit or error.
• error: machine-readable error code and explanation when applicable.

A successful status means a request was processed, not that every review was downloaded. Check stopReason and counts. A run can succeed with an empty dataset if there are no matching public reviews. No app-name lookup or app-existence verification is performed, so an empty result alone does not prove an app ID exists.

Individual failed apps do not erase prior results. If some apps fail, the dataset is retained and summary status is partial. If every attempted app fails with no retained reviews, the run fails after saving the summary.

Boundaries and reliability

• Only public reviews returned by Steam are collected. No login, private profile data, review comments, game descriptions, prices or hardware details are fetched.
• Anonymous API results can be cached for up to 10 minutes. This is not real-time monitoring.
• Steam controls rate limits and availability. Requests are serial. Transient network errors, HTTP 429 and 5xx have at most two retries. HTTP 4xx other than 429 are not retried. Retry-After is respected; delays longer than 60 seconds stop the app rather than retrying too early. Exhausted 429s stop remaining apps.
• Requests have a 25-second timeout and a 5 MiB response limit. Redirects are not followed. Requests are restricted to the official review endpoint.
• Bounded pagination ends at the first limit or stop condition. Helpful/funny ordering and a changing live dataset do not provide a complete-history guarantee. Rows are deduplicated within the current run only.
• Repeated scheduled runs can return the same reviews. Persistent incremental state, cursor resume, cross-run deduplication and change alerts are not provided.
• API payload changes, removal of reviews, outages or access restrictions can cause partial results. No bypass of blocks or authentication is attempted.
• You are responsible for your use of review data, applicable Steam terms and privacy requirements. This tool is not affiliated with Valve or Steam. Public availability does not grant unrestricted redistribution rights.