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Undocumented Steam storefront lookups — app details by ID

🎮 GamesHEALTHYchecked 8h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✗AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Steam's internal storefront endpoint returns rich details for any app by ID: name, type, pricing, free-to-play flag, descriptions, and media. It's undocumented and keyless but IP-rate-limited, so cache and go easy. No CORS header is sent, so use it server-side.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 91 · healthy
Uptime history
88.2%90 days
85.0%30 days
268P50 · ms
486P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 127 ms, slowest 469 ms, most recent 207 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=570

{
  "570": {
    "success": true,
    "data": {
      "type": "game",
      "name": "Dota 2",
      "steam_appid": 570,
      "is_free": true,
      "required_age": 0,
      "short_description": "Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes."
    }
  }
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=570"
const res = await fetch("https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=570");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=570")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 3HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /appdetails?appids=570268 mschecked 8h ago
GET/appdetails?appids=570PROBED

Undocumented Steam storefront lookups — app details by ID

GET/appdetails?limit=5

Appdetails — documented GET route.

GET/appdetails?page=1

Appdetails — 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.

Steam: common questions

Is Steam free to use?

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

Does Steam need an API key?

No — Steam needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished (undocumented endpoint; IP rate-limited)).

Can I call Steam from the browser?

Not directly — Steam doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is Steam up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Steam is healthy with 88.2% uptime over 90 days and a 268 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.