Steam Player Count & Charts Scraper

Track live Steam player counts, 24-hour & all-time peaks, game metadata, and the most-played games ranking — with no API key and datacenter-proxy-friendly requests. Built for gaming analytics, market research, esports monitoring and trend tracking.

Pricing: ~$0.50 / 1,000 games (pay-per-result). Cheap enough to poll dozens of titles on a schedule.

What it does

• Live players straight from Steam's official GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers endpoint.
• 24h peak and all-time peak concurrent players (via steamcharts.com).
• Game metadata: name, type, is-free flag, header image, short description.
• Most-played ranking of the top games on Steam right now.

No login, no key, no residential proxies required.

Modes

Mode	Input	Output
apps	appIds array	One row per game: current players + name/meta + peaks
top	—	The steamcharts.com most-played ranking (rank, players, peak)

Input

{
  "mode": "apps",
  "appIds": ["570", "730", "440"],
  "includePeaks": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	apps	apps (by appId) or top (most-played ranking)
appIds	array	["570","730","440"]	Steam app IDs (Dota 2, CS2, TF2). Find one in store.steampowered.com/app/570
includePeaks	boolean	true	Also fetch 24h & all-time peaks in apps mode
maxItems	integer	100	Cap the number of games (max 1000)

Output (apps mode)

{
  "app_id": "570",
  "name": "Dota 2",
  "current_players": 749898,
  "peak_24h": 794881,
  "peak_all_time": 1291328,
  "type": "game",
  "is_free": true,
  "header_image": "https://.../570/header.jpg",
  "short_description": "The most-played game on Steam...",
  "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/570",
  "source": "steam",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T17:00:00+00:00"
}

Output (top mode)

{
  "app_id": "730",
  "name": "Counter-Strike 2",
  "rank": 1,
  "current_players": 1165576,
  "peak_24h": 1573727,
  "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/730",
  "source": "steamcharts",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T17:00:00+00:00"
}

Use cases

• Game analytics — chart concurrent players over time for any title.
• Market research — compare live audiences across competing games.
• Esports — monitor player interest around tournaments and patches.
• Trend tracking — catch breakout hits on the most-played ranking early.

Related actors

• Steam Games Scraper
• Steam Reviews Scraper
• GOG Games Scraper
• FreeToGame Scraper

Keywords

steam, steam player count, concurrent players, steamcharts, most played games, steam api, game analytics, player statistics, peak players, esports data, gaming market research, steam scraper

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