Steam Game Pricing & Metacritic Scraper

Steam's storefront is a catalog, a chart board, and a price list at the same time. This actor reads those public surfaces without a login, API key, cookie, or proxy setup, and returns one clean record per app: localized price and discount, Metacritic score, review totals, community tags, media, DLC, platforms, and release information.

Five ways to build a dataset

Mode	What it does
search	Matches one or more keywords against Steam's own store search and pages through the results.
browse	Walks a chart: top sellers, new releases, current specials, coming soon, weeklong deals, popular new releases, or the legacy featured mix.
appDetail	Looks up numeric App IDs, or store URLs pasted into the App ID field.
urls	Accepts full store.steampowered.com/app/<id>/ URLs and resolves each one.
featured	Keeps the old behavior: top sellers, new releases, specials, and coming soon, in that order.

Search and chart modes paginate through Steam's 50-result pages until maxItems is reached or the source runs out. Every record is deduplicated by App ID, so overlapping queries and chart pages do not create duplicates.

What lands in each record

• Identity — appId, appName, appType, appUrl, recordType, scrapedAt
• People — developer, publisher, plus developers[] and publishers[]
• Pricing — currentPrice, originalPrice, priceCurrency, priceInitialCents, priceFinalCents, discountPercent, isDiscounted, isFree, packages[], packageOptions[]
• Critical reception — metacriticScore, metacriticUrl, recommendationsTotal, pressQuotes[]
• User reviews — reviewScore, reviewScoreDesc, totalReviews, totalPositive, totalNegative, positiveReviewPercent
• Classification — genres[], categories[], tags[], controllerSupport, requiredAge, contentDescriptors[], platforms
• Release — releaseDate, releaseDateIso, comingSoon
• Content — shortDescription, detailedDescription, website, supportedLanguages
• Media — headerImage, capsuleImage, capsuleImageV5, backgroundImage, backgroundRawImage, screenshots[], screenshotThumbnails[], movies[]
• Extras — achievementsTotal, dlcAppIds[], dlc[], supportUrl, supportEmail

Steam does not publish every field for every app. Missing values are omitted from the record rather than written as null, "", or a made-up placeholder.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
mode	select	search	search, browse, appDetail, urls, or featured.
searchQueries	string list	["adventure"]	One or more keywords for search.
browseCategory	select	topSellers	Chart used by browse; also newReleases, specials, comingSoon, weeklongDeals, popularNew, featuredMix.
appIds	string list	–	Numeric IDs or store URLs for appDetail.
storeUrls	string list	–	Full store URLs for urls.
appTypeFilter	select	all	Keep only game, dlc, demo, or software.
sortBy	select	relevance	released, priceAsc, priceDesc, reviews, metacritic, or nameAsc.
onlyDiscounted	boolean	false	Drop records that are not on sale.
minDiscount	integer	0	Minimum discount percentage (0–100).
maxPrice	number	–	Maximum final price in the storefront currency.
minMetacritic	integer	0	Minimum Metacritic score (0–100).
country	text	us	Two-letter Steam store country, e.g. us, gb, de, ca. Controls currency.
language	select	english	Steam store language for names, descriptions, and store-page text.
includeTags	boolean	true	Read the public store page for community tags and DLC names.
includeReviewSummary	boolean	true	Add Steam's positive/negative review totals and label.
maxItems	integer	20	Stop after this many saved records (1–1000).

Daily test / smallest useful run

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["Hades"],
  "maxItems": 1,
  "includeTags": false,
  "includeReviewSummary": false
}

Browse current specials, deep discounts only

{
  "mode": "browse",
  "browseCategory": "specials",
  "onlyDiscounted": true,
  "minDiscount": 50,
  "maxPrice": 20,
  "maxItems": 25
}

Look up specific games

{
  "mode": "appDetail",
  "appIds": ["1245620", "570", "730"],
  "maxItems": 3
}

Localized prices from pasted URLs

{
  "mode": "urls",
  "storeUrls": [
    "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245620/",
    "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091500/"
  ],
  "country": "de",
  "language": "german",
  "maxItems": 2
}

Compatibility with saved tasks

Older tasks keep working. The actor still reads the former input keys and maps them in code:

• searchQuery → searchQueries
• appId → appIds
• urls / startUrls → storeUrls
• appType → appTypeFilter (including the old empty-string value, which means all)
• mode: "featured" → the featured top sellers / new releases / specials / coming soon mix

The current production prefill (mode=featured, searchQuery=adventure, maxItems=20) still runs and returns records.

FAQ

Do I need a Steam account, API key, cookie, or proxy? No. The actor reads Steam's public store endpoints and product pages. No credentials are required and no proxy configuration is needed.

Why is metacriticScore missing for some games? Steam only publishes a Metacritic score for a subset of titles. When the store has no score, the field is omitted.

Why is discountPercent missing on a game that is on sale? The field is written only when Steam reports a non-zero discount at the moment of the run. A zero discount is not treated as a sale.

Why do prices differ from my region? Steam localizes prices by store country. Set country to the storefront you want; priceCurrency and the formatted price follow that storefront.

What is the difference between tags and genres? genres and categories come from Steam's app metadata. tags are the community tags shown on the public store page, capped at the 20 Steam displays.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads Steam live. Prices, discounts, chart positions, review totals, and tags reflect the moment the actor runs.

Are review numbers the same as Metacritic? No. reviewScore and the review totals are Steam user reviews. metacriticScore is the critic score Steam displays from Metacritic.

Can I get more than 50 results from a chart? Yes. Search and chart modes page through 50-result pages up to maxItems (maximum 1000) or until the chart/search is exhausted. Steam's featured new-releases block is a fixed 30-item list, and the featured mix is a fixed set of featured blocks; those are source limits, not pagination bugs.

Data source

Public Steam Store pages: store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails, featuredcategories, search/results, the product page, and ajaxappreviews. The actor is independent and not affiliated with Valve or Steam.