Match Steam Tags

This repository contains Python code to match Steam tags with appIDs.

Installation

The code is packaged for PyPI, so that the installation consists in running:

pip install steamtags

Usage

Load genres and tags

Ideally, data is loaded from a local cache.

Data is downloaded (and cached) if the local cache is:

• either unavailable,
• or obsolete, i.e. downloaded on a previous day.

import steamtags

genres_dict, tags_dict = steamtags.load()

Download genres and tags

Caveat: in the use case described below, data is not locally cached!

SteamSpy provides several Top-100 game rankings:

• top100in2weeks, with respect to the number of players in the last two weeks
• top100forever, with respect to the number of players since March 2009
• top100owned, with respect to the estimated number of owners

These rankings can be used to retrieve and aggregate genres and tags, as such:

import steamtags

genres_dict, tags_dict = steamtags.download(data_source='top100in2weeks')

References

• An exhaustive list of tags can be found in steam-labs-recommender.
• gamedatacrunch@PyPI: an API to download data through GameDataCrunch API.
• steamspypi@PyPI: an API to download data through SteamSpy API.