Steam Games, Prices & Reviews Scraper

Pull structured data from the Steam store — the largest PC games marketplace. Search 277,000+ products, get full game metadata with regional pricing, or collect user reviews complete with the reviewer's playtime.

Why Use This Actor?

• Three jobs in one actor. Search the catalogue, fetch full game details, or page through reviews — same input shape, same output envelope.
• Regional pricing. One country code switches the storefront, so you can compare the same title across US, UK, German, Brazilian or Indonesian pricing.
• Playtime-weighted reviews. Every review carries playtimeAtReviewHours — you can tell a 2-hour hot take from a 1,000-hour verdict, which plain star ratings can't.
• Discount tracking. discountPercent, originalPriceFormatted and priceFormatted make sale monitoring a one-line filter.
• Honest nulls. A free or region-unavailable title returns priceCents: null, never a misleading 0.
• No key, no login, no browser. These are the same endpoints the store's own pages call.

What It's Good For

• Market research — how many roguelikes shipped this year, at what price, with what reception?
• Price and sale monitoring — track discounts across a wishlist or a publisher's catalogue.
• Competitor analysis — line up a rival's review sentiment, tags and pricing against yours.
• Review mining — sentiment and feature complaints, weighted by how long the reviewer actually played.
• Regional pricing studies — purchasing-power comparisons across storefronts.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search, detail or reviews.
searchTerm	string	–	Keyword for search mode. Empty lists the whole store.
appIds	array	–	App IDs for detail/reviews. Store URLs are accepted and parsed.
tagIds	array	–	Steam tag IDs to filter a search.
onlySpecials	boolean	false	Restrict a search to titles on sale.
country	string	us	Two-letter code driving regional price and currency.
language	string	english	Store language.
reviewFilter	string	recent	recent, updated or all (most helpful).
reviewType	string	all	all, positive, negative.
purchaseType	string	all	all, steam, non_steam_purchase.
reviewLanguage	string	all	Review language filter.
maxItems	integer	200	Record cap. In reviews mode it is split evenly across the app IDs.

Example — find discounted roguelikes

{ "mode": "search", "searchTerm": "roguelike", "onlySpecials": true, "country": "us", "maxItems": 200 }

Example — reviews for Counter-Strike 2

{ "mode": "reviews", "appIds": ["730"], "reviewFilter": "recent", "reviewLanguage": "english", "maxItems": 500 }

Output

Search / detail row:

{
  "appId": 4075620,
  "title": "Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder",
  "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/4075620/Combolands_Roguelike_Citybuilder/",
  "releaseDate": "Aug 24, 2026",
  "platforms": ["win"],
  "priceCents": 799,
  "priceFormatted": "$7.99",
  "originalPriceFormatted": "$9.99",
  "discountPercent": 20,
  "reviewSummary": "Very Positive",
  "reviewPositivePercent": 96,
  "reviewCount": 204,
  "tagIds": [9, 1716, 3959],
  "_mode": "search"
}

Review row:

{
  "appId": 730,
  "recommendationId": "198234771",
  "votedUp": true,
  "review": "Skill ceiling is high, hard to learn, fun with friends.",
  "createdAt": "2026-08-26T09:14:02+00:00",
  "votesUp": 3,
  "steamPurchase": true,
  "refunded": false,
  "onSteamDeck": false,
  "authorName": "player123",
  "authorGamesOwned": 214,
  "playtimeAtReviewHours": 1154.7,
  "playtimeForeverHours": 1201.3,
  "appReviewScoreDesc": "Very Positive",
  "appTotalPositive": 1277397,
  "appTotalNegative": 221211,
  "appTotalReviews": 2601715,
  "_mode": "reviews"
}

Field reference — selected

Field	Type	Description
priceCents	integer	Final price in minor units (799 = $7.99). null when free or unpriced in that region — never 0.
discountPercent	integer	Current discount; 0 when not on sale.
reviewPositivePercent / reviewCount	integer	Parsed from the store's own review tooltip.
recommendationTotal	integer	Steam's lifetime recommendation count (detail mode).
playtimeAtReviewHours	number	Hours played when the review was written. Steam reports minutes; this is converted.
appTotalPositive / appTotalNegative	integer	Whole-game review totals, repeated on each review row for convenience.
_mode	string	Which mode produced the row.
_error	string	Present only on failures (no_app_ids, app_unavailable, reviews_unavailable, blocked, http_*).

Known Limits

• Search caps out per query. Very broad searches page deeply but slowly; narrow with tags, price or onlySpecials for large sweeps.
• detail mode is one request per app. Steam's endpoint accepts a list but only returns data for a single app, so large ID sets take proportionally longer.
• Delisted or region-locked apps return an app_unavailable error row rather than an empty record — that's deliberate, so gaps are visible.
• Review author IDs are public profile data. authorGamesOwned reads 0 for users with a private profile; that's the source's value, not a parse failure.
• No owner or sales estimates. Steam does not publish unit sales; recommendationTotal and review counts are proxies, not sales figures.

Scope & Compliance

• Public store data only. Every endpoint used is one Steam's own public store pages call for anonymous visitors. No key, no login, no credentials.
• Reviews are public, attributed content. The actor collects the public display name and profile link Steam already shows on each review; it collects no emails, no private contact details and no data from private profiles.
• No security control is defeated. Ordinary HTTPS requests with a browser-accurate TLS fingerprint. No CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication.
• Rate limits are respected. Requests are paced between pages.
• Use the output in line with Valve's Steam Terms of Service and applicable law.

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