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CheapShark

Live PC-game deals and prices across digital stores

🎮 GamesHEALTHYchecked 2h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

CheapShark aggregates current sale prices for PC/Steam games across dozens of storefronts and exposes them as JSON. The /deals feed returns titles with sale vs. normal price, savings percentage, store and Steam IDs, and Metacritic/Steam ratings. Keyless and CORS-friendly.

74HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 74 · healthy
Uptime history
88.3%90 days
85.0%30 days
2230P50 · ms
4894P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 71 ms, slowest 4049 ms, most recent 2548 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.cheapshark.com/api/1.0/deals?pageSize=1

[
  {
    "title": "NBA 2K26",
    "dealID": "GKIJ7VPpvf+rslYeeAq3F7p3nSpEFg2gYzczWDcfvwE=",
    "storeID": "23",
    "salePrice": "8.35",
    "normalPrice": "69.99",
    "savings": "88.069724",
    "steamAppID": "3472040"
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.cheapshark.com/api/1.0/deals?pageSize=1"
const res = await fetch("https://www.cheapshark.com/api/1.0/deals?pageSize=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.cheapshark.com/api/1.0/deals?pageSize=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /deals?pageSize=12230 mschecked 2h ago
GET/deals?pageSize=1PROBED

Live PC-game deals and prices across digital stores

GET/deals?limit=5

Deals — documented GET route.

GET/deals?page=1

Deals — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

CheapShark: common questions

Is CheapShark free to use?

Yes — CheapShark is a free games API. Free tier: Free — no key. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does CheapShark need an API key?

No — CheapShark needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Retry-After: 2608s).

Can I call CheapShark from the browser?

Yes — CheapShark returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is CheapShark up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, CheapShark is healthy with 88.3% uptime over 90 days and a 2230 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.