Official Steam API for Pricing

[SLMT]

I found the official API for pricing information from here

First, you can get the list of apps on Steam via this link:

http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamApps/GetAppList/v0001/

Then, get the information of an app via this API:

http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=[App Id]&cc=[Country Code]

[App Id] is the id of the app on Steam. [Country Code] is one of the codes defined in ISO 3166-1.

For example, you can get the information about "LEGO® STAR WARS™: The Force Awakens" via this link:

http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=438640&cc=tw

To get the price information, follow this hierarchy: [App Id] > data > price_overview. Here is an example of price_overview from the above link:

"price_overview":{
    "currency":"TWD",
    "initial":165000,
    "final":115500,
    "discount_percent":30
}

Note that all prices are represented in cents (not dollars) with corresponding currency and this field may be omitted if the game is free-to-play.

I recommend us to use the official API to collect the data.

[SLMT]

I also found that we can add a filter to omit those unnecessary information:

http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=[App Id]&cc=[Country Code]&filters=price_overview

like this:

http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=438640&cc=us&filters=price_overview

Here is someone's survey about this API:

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/User:RJackson/StorefrontAPI#Known_methods

[SLMT]

There is a way to retrieve the pricing information of multiple applications in a single request. Just add , to separate multiple ids:

http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=[App Id]{,[App Id]}&cc=[Country Code]&filters=price_overview

For example:

http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=438640,417800&cc=us&filters=price_overview

[ChingTsai]

Great thanks to SLMT to provide these usufull info.
I will replace the steamDB api in the crawler to this steam offical api, since SteamDB doesn't encourage us to get price data from them.

[cyhsutw]

Great thanks to @SLMT for the input.

@ChingTsai Since there isn't a way to get historical data using the API mentioned above, do you have any idea on how we can get the data we need for prediction?

[ChingTsai]

@cyhsutw the only solution is using the API @SLMT provided and start to collect it every day from now on. But for those apps that are not on our collecting list, I think we still can get the initial data from SteamDB and then collect the reset on our own.

[vulovicv23]

Hey all!

Is there a way to get other currencies?

Since when executing:
https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=438640,205100&cc=us&filters=price_overview

I get only USD?

Thanks!

[melihsunbul]

Hi @vulovicv23, You can change cc parameter to get other currencies. For example en, tr, etc.

[JoaquinBruhn]

How could this be used on javascript using fetch() I´m trying to use the json response for a simple site I´m building but the requests is always rejected.
I´m tring with this:

fetch("https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=261550", {
mode: "no-cors"
}).then((res) => {
console.log(res);
});

not specifying "no-cors" returns an error and I´ve tried specifying the method as well but it´s still rejected. Don´t know what´s wrong since using the link on the browser gives the proper responce.

[kaftar007]

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