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Access SteamCharts data via API: top games by player count, trending titles, search by name, and monthly historical stats per Steam App ID.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/3fcf8070-ee16-4adc-be24-2c51d943c5fe/get_homepage' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Get trending games and a summary of top games from the SteamCharts homepage. Returns lists of currently trending games (by percentage gain) and top games by current player count.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"trending_games": "array of trending game objects with title, appid, current_players, and change_24h",
"top_games_summary": "array of top game objects with title, appid, current_players, peak_24h, and hours_played_last_30d"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"trending_games": [
{
"appid": "3918510",
"title": "SpiritVale Playtest",
"change_24h": "+722.3%",
"current_players": "1767"
}
],
"top_games_summary": [
{
"appid": "730",
"title": "Counter-Strike 2",
"peak_24h": "1554184",
"current_players": "693180",
"hours_played_last_30d": "684574594"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the steamcharts.com API
The SteamCharts API exposes 4 endpoints covering live and historical Steam player-count data. Use get_game_details to pull monthly player history — including average players, peak players, and month-over-month gain — for any game identified by its Steam App ID. Other endpoints surface trending games by 24-hour percentage gain, the full paginated top-games list, and name-based game search with current player counts.
What the API Covers
SteamCharts tracks concurrent player counts for games on Steam. This API exposes four endpoints that map to the main data surfaces on the site: homepage summaries, ranked top-game listings, name search, and per-game historical time series. Every game is referenced by its Steam App ID — the same numeric identifier used across the Steam platform — making it straightforward to cross-reference results with other Steam data sources.
Endpoint Details
get_homepage returns two lists: trending_games (sorted by percentage gain with change_24h fields) and top_games_summary (which includes hours_played_last_30d in addition to current_players and peak_24h). get_top_games paginates the full ranked list 25 games per page, with each entry carrying rank, appid, current_players, peak_24h, and hours_played. Supply a page integer to walk through deeper results. search_games accepts a query string and returns matching titles with their current player counts — useful for resolving a game name to its appid before calling get_game_details.
Historical Data via get_game_details
get_game_details is the most data-dense endpoint. Pass an appid (e.g. '730' for Counter-Strike 2) and the response includes a stats object with playing, 24-hour_peak, and all-time_peak, plus a history array of monthly records. Each history record contains month, avg_players, gain, gain_percent, and peak_players, giving a full time series suitable for trend analysis or charting player-base growth and decline over time.
- Track which games are gaining momentum using
trending_gamesand thechange_24hfield fromget_homepage. - Build a game popularity dashboard ranking titles by
current_playersandpeak_24husingget_top_games. - Resolve a game title to its Steam App ID via
search_gamesbefore fetching detailed stats. - Chart a game's player-base growth or decline over months using the
historyarray fromget_game_details. - Compare
avg_playersandpeak_playersacross months to identify seasonal spikes for a specific game. - Monitor
all-time_peakand current concurrent players to gauge a game's retention relative to its launch. - Aggregate
hours_played_last_30dfrom top games to estimate overall platform engagement trends.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does SteamCharts have an official developer API?+
What does `get_game_details` return beyond current player counts?+
stats object with playing, 24-hour_peak, and all-time_peak, plus a history array of monthly records. Each record includes month, avg_players, gain (absolute change from the prior month), gain_percent, and peak_players. This gives you a full month-by-month time series for any game identified by its appid.Does the API expose individual review scores or Steam store metadata for games?+
How does pagination work in `get_top_games`, and how many games are returned per page?+
page parameter to fetch deeper results. The response includes a page field confirming which page was returned. If you omit page, the endpoint returns the first page by default.