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Steam store API in Python

Steam store data — search games or pull full detail: price, genres, Metacritic, reviews. One POST from Python with the input, rows back as JSON with 41 fields, $0.0008 per delivered app. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

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A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the steam collector returns one dict per app, at $0.0008 each.

First call

Install, call, read the rows.

pip install requests

The only dependency.

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/steam/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "query": "portal",
        "max_results": 10,
    },
    timeout=120,
)
r.raise_for_status()
run = r.json()["payload"]
print(run["count"], "rows,", run["cost"]["usd"], "USD")
for row in run["results"]:
    print(row.get("app_id"), row.get("name"), row.get("type"), row.get("is_free"))

Python: one Steam game data run (Cerca giochi), printing app_id, name, type, is_free

The key comes from an environment variable, never from the code. The run answers in the same request when it finishes in time; payload.results holds the rows and payload.cost what they cost.

Request parameters

What the collector takes.

Input of the Steam game data collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`query`	string	no	Search term (search mode). Use this OR app_ids.
`app_ids`	array	no	Steam appids or store URLs for full detail. Use this OR query.
`country`	string	no	Storefront country for pricing (default us).
`include_reviews`	boolean	no (default true)	Detail mode: also read Steam's review verdict and totals for each app (one small extra request per app).
`max_results`	integer	no (default 20)	How many apps to deliver at most (1–50). You pay only for delivered apps.

Response fields

41 fields per app.

Fields of each row (app)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	1-based position.
`app_id`	string	Steam appid.
`name`	string, nullable	Game/app title.
`type`	string, nullable	game, dlc, demo… (detail mode).
`is_free`	boolean	Free-to-play (detail mode).
`price`	number, nullable	Final price (detail mode).
`price_formatted`	string, nullable	Price as shown (detail mode).
`discount_pct`	integer, nullable	Discount % (detail mode).
`currency`	string, nullable	Price currency (detail mode).
`developers`	string[]	Developers (detail mode).
`publishers`	string[]	Publishers (detail mode).
`genres`	string[]	Genres (detail mode).
`categories`	string[]	Store categories (detail mode).
`release_date`	string, nullable	Release date as shown (detail mode).
`metacritic`	integer, nullable	Metacritic score (detail mode).
`recommendations`	integer, nullable	Total recommendations (detail mode).
`platforms`	string[]	windows/mac/linux (detail mode).
`header_image`	string, nullable	Header image URL.
`icon`	string, nullable	Icon URL (search mode).
`short_description`	string, nullable	Short description (detail mode).
`url`	string	Store page URL.
`logo`	string, nullable	Capsule image (search rows).
`coming_soon`	boolean, nullable	Not yet released (detail rows).
`required_age`	integer, nullable	Minimum age (detail rows).
`list_price`	number, nullable	Price before discount.
`controller_support`	string, nullable	full / partial.
`review_summary`	string, nullable	Steam's review verdict (Very Positive, Mixed…) — detail rows.
`reviews_total`	integer, nullable	Total user reviews.
`reviews_positive`	integer, nullable	Positive reviews.
`reviews_negative`	integer, nullable	Negative reviews.
`reviews_positive_pct`	number, nullable	Share of positive reviews (%).
`website`	string, nullable	Official website.
`languages`	string[], nullable	Supported languages.
`dlc_count`	integer, nullable	Number of DLCs.
`achievements`	integer, nullable	Number of achievements.
`age_rating`	string, nullable	ESRB / PEGI rating.
`content_notes`	string, nullable	Mature-content note from the store page.
`screenshots`	string[], nullable	Screenshot URLs (up to 5).
`trailer`	string, nullable	First trailer stream URL.
`metacritic_url`	string, nullable	Metacritic page.
`support_url`	string, nullable	Support page.

Add ?format=csv to the runs endpoint to get the same rows as CSV.

Long runs

Run in the background, then poll.

A run that needs more time can go to the background: send "async": true, get 202 with the run id, and poll the runs endpoint until the status is done. Reading a run is free.

import os, time, requests

H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"}
r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/steam/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"query":"portal","max_results":10}, "async": True}, timeout=30)
run_id = r.json()["payload"]["run_id"]
while True:
    run = requests.get(f"https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/{run_id}", headers=H, timeout=30).json()["payload"]
    if run["status"] in ("done", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(run["status"], run["count"])

Python: background run and polling

Errors

What can come back, and what is billed.

Collector run errors
Status	Meaning	Billed
`400`	The input does not match the collector (`payload.errors`)	No
`401`	Missing or wrong API key	No
`402`	Balance and free credit do not cover the run: top up	No
`422`	The input can never resolve; retrying the same input cannot help	No
`424`	The run failed at the source (blocked, timed out, layout changed); safe to retry	No
`429`	Rate limit or a per-account brake; wait for `Retry-After`	No

Only delivered rows are billed: a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Price

$0.0008 per delivered app.

What Steam game data rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.0008
1,000	$0.80
10,000	$8.00

Up to 50 apps per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 2,500 apps. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free Steam game data API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 2,500 apps of this collector at $0.0008 each, with no card.

Do I have to handle proxies, retries or blocks?

No. The collector runs on our network and handles them; a run blocked at the source returns 424 and is not billed.

How many rows can one run return?

Up to 50 apps per run (the max_results input, where the collector has one).

Can an AI agent run it?

Yes: the MCP server exposes it as the run_collector tool, with the same input and price. See the MCP server.

Run it on the free credit.

Create an API key, export it as QD_API_KEY and run the example. $0.0008 per delivered app, no subscription.

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