Steam API

Overview

Measurement Record

What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.

Request

GET https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=570

Result

HTTP 200 · application/json · 16,089 bytes · compressed

Response time

163 ms (median of 3) · fastest 159 ms

Transport

TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · certificate issued by DigiCert Inc

Browser CORS

No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header — call it from a server, not the browser

Served by

nginx

Recorded

2026-08-10

Available Data

The kind of data this API exposes, based on its documentation. We could not call the endpoint to confirm the exact field names.

Captured Response

Captured from a real request to https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=570 on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.

{
  "570": {
    "success": true,
    "data": {
      "type": "game",
      "name": "Dota 2",
      "steam_appid": 570,
      "required_age": 0,
      "is_free": true,
      "dlc": [
        1241930
      ],
      "detailed_description": "<strong>The most-played game on Steam.</strong><br>Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter …",
      "about_the_game": "<strong>The most-played game on Steam.</strong><br>Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter …",
      "short_description": "Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's…",
      "supported_languages": "Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English<strong>*</strong>, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean<strong>*</strong>, Norwegian…",
      "reviews": "“A modern multiplayer masterpiece.”<br>9.5/10 – Destructoid<br><br>“Once you start to learn its secrets, there’s a wild and exciting variety of play here tha…",
      "header_image": "https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/570/header.jpg?t=1769535998",
      "capsule_image": "https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/570/capsule_231x87.jpg?t=1769535998",
      
…

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

const url = "https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=570";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=570"
headers = {}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl "https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=570"

What Can You Build?

// Fetch character or game data
const response = await fetch(`https://github.com/Revadike/InternalSteamWebAPI/wiki`);
const data = await response.json();
const items = data.results || data.characters || data.data || [data];
const characters = Array.isArray(items) ? items : [items];
characters.slice(0, 5).forEach(c => {
  console.log(`🎮 ${c.name || c.title}: ${c.description || 'No description'}`);
});

// Get random trivia or game fact
const response = await fetch(`https://github.com/Revadike/InternalSteamWebAPI/wiki`);
const data = await response.json();
const trivia = data.results?.[0] || data;
console.log('Trivia:', trivia.question || trivia.text || JSON.stringify(trivia));
if (trivia.correct_answer) {
  console.log('Answer:', trivia.correct_answer);
}

// Fetch game statistics
const response = await fetch(`https://github.com/Revadike/InternalSteamWebAPI/wiki`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log('Game data from Steam:', data);
const entries = Array.isArray(data) ? data : data.data || data.results || [data];
entries.slice(0, 5).forEach((entry, i) => {
  console.log(`#${i+1}: ${entry.name || entry.title} - Score: ${entry.score || 'N/A'}`);
});

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

How This API Fails

We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.

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Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.