Steam Store Catalog Bulk Extractor

Bulk extract Steam game metadata via the public Store API. Maps to recurring Upwork brief class: "build me a CSV of [N] Steam games with price + genre + reviews + release date." Common buyers: gaming media, indie analytics, market research, recommender-system data.

Built 2026-05-03 as Demo #31 — third hybrid-mode (real-recurring-brief) demo.

Run

. ~/freelance/.venv/bin/activate
cd ~/freelance/portfolio_demos/steam_catalog_extractor
python extract.py --ids 730,570,440,1086940,367520,1245620
python extract.py --file appids.txt   # one id per line

Result

• 7 games extracted (CS2, Dota 2, TF2, THE FINALS, Baldur's Gate 3, Hollow Knight, Elden Ring) ✅
• Per-row: name, type, is_free, release_date, developers, publishers, genres, categories, languages, metacritic_score, recommendations_total, price_initial / price_final cents, currency, discount_percent ✅
• Resume + dedupe via in-CSV appid set so a paused 5K-game run picks back up cleanly ✅
• 1.5s sleep between fetches (well under Steam's ~200/5min rate limit) ✅
• Tenacity retries with exponential backoff ✅

Adapting

• For full catalog: enumerate the public app list (currently ~120K apps), filter to games, batch-fetch.
• For specific genres: pre-filter the appid list using SteamSpy or IsThereAnyDeal.
• For multi-region pricing: loop the cc= param across us, gb, de, jp, etc., write one row per region.