Steam Scraper: Games, Prices & Top Sellers

Pull structured game data from the Steam store: search by keyword, look up games by app ID, and read the live Top Sellers chart, with real prices for any country.

Built on Steam's own public store endpoints, so there is no login, no key and no bot wall.

Do you need an API key? No. Is there a free tier? Yes.

The two things people search for in this category, measured, are free and API key: steam api free games.

So, plainly:

• No API key. Nothing to register for, nothing to rotate, no key to leak in a repo. The source is a public API published deliberately by its owner.
• No proxy setup. The source does not bot-wall datacenter addresses, so the default works.
• Pay per result, not per month. There is no subscription and no minimum. Rows that error or that your filters drop are not charged.
• Free to try. Run it with the prefilled input and see real rows before deciding anything.

What you get

Every row is one game:

Field	Example
title	Hades II
appId	1145350
price / currency	29.99 / USD
originalPrice, discountPercent	49.99, 40
isFree	false
genres, categories	["Action","Indie"]
developers, publishers	["Supergiant Games"]
metacriticScore	92
recommendationCount	184213
releaseDate, comingSoon	28 Sep, 2024
platforms	{windows: true, mac: true, linux: false}
topSellerRank	5 (only on Top Sellers rows)
url, headerImage, shortDescription

Three modes, one Actor

Search: searchTerms: ["roguelike", "city builder"] Find every game matching a keyword, with full details. Use maxResultsPerSearch to cap.

Direct lookup: appIds: ["730", "570"] Track specific games. Perfect for a daily price-watch schedule.

Top Sellers: includeTopSellers: true Steam's current best-selling chart, ranked. Schedule it daily and you have your own sales-trend dataset.

You can combine all three in one run.

Example input

{
  "searchTerms": ["roguelike"],
  "appIds": ["730"],
  "includeTopSellers": true,
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 20,
  "country": "us"
}

Regional pricing

Set country to any two-letter code (us, gb, de, br, tr, il…) and Steam returns that region's price and currency. Run the same app IDs across several countries to build a regional price-comparison table.

Who this is for

• Game devs & publishers: track competitor pricing, discount depth and review counts
• Deal sites & bots: detect discounts the moment they go live
• Market analysts: chart what genres are selling, using the Top Sellers list over time
• AI / dataset builders: clean structured game metadata with descriptions and tags

Pricing

Pay per result. You are charged only for rows that come back with data. Failed lookups are returned as error rows and cost nothing.

Regional pricing, which is the whole reason to run it per country

Steam prices the same game differently in every region, and the country input is passed straight through as the cc parameter, so any Steam storefront works: us, gb, de, fr, it, es, pl, ru, tr, br, ar, mx, jp, kr, cn, in, au, ca, il and the rest.

Run several and the same appId comes back once per country with that region's price, originalPrice, discountPercent and currency, which is how you see a regional price gap rather than guess at one.

language sets the language of the returned text (title, description, genres), independently of the pricing country.

Per game you get title, app ID, appType, release date and coming-soon flag, developers, publishers, genres, categories, price with any active discount, Metacritic score, recommendation count, supported platforms, required age, header image, and the store URL.

Free-to-play titles come back with isFree: true and no price, rather than a misleading zero.

Notes

• Steam rate-limits aggressive clients. This Actor paces requests and rotates proxy IPs automatically; leave the default Apify proxy on.
• Games that are region-locked or delisted return an error row rather than failing the whole run.
• Set a max charge per run in the run options if you want a hard spend ceiling. The Actor honors it and stops cleanly.

FAQ

Do I need a Steam API key or a Steam account?

No. This uses Steam's own public store endpoints, the same ones the store pages themselves call, so there is no login, no key and no bot wall.

How do I find a game's app ID?

It is in the store URL: store.steampowered.com/app/1145350/ is app ID 1145350. If you only know the name, search by keyword first and the app ID comes back on every row.

Can I get prices for a specific country?

Yes, and this is the main reason to use it over a single-region scraper. Set country to any two-letter code such as us, gb, de, br, tr or il, and Steam returns that region's price and currency. Run the same appIds across several countries in separate runs to build a regional price-comparison table.

Can I detect a discount the moment it goes live?

Schedule a run with your appIds and watch discountPercent and price against originalPrice. Steam exposes those on the store payload, so a scheduled run every few hours is enough to catch a sale as it starts.

Does it return user reviews?

No. It returns recommendationCount, meaning how many recommendations a game has, and metacriticScore, but not individual review text.

What happens with delisted or region-locked games?

They come back as error rows naming the problem, and error rows are never charged. The rest of the run continues.

Can I track what genres are selling over time?

Yes. Set includeTopSellers: true on a daily schedule. Each row carries topSellerRank and its genres, so a few weeks of runs gives you your own sales-trend dataset that Steam does not publish historically.