Steam-Reviews-Py
Get reviews from the Steam Web API.
Usage
Place steam_reviews.py in your project.
Make sure to install Requests using pipenv install request or pip install request.
import steam_reviews
reviews = steam_reviews.get('748600') # warning! this is a blocking operation!steam_reviews.get(appid, printProgress=False)
Accepts a Steam App ID as a string, and returns a list of reviews, each with the following structure:
{
'recommendationid': str # The unique id of the recommendation
'author': {
'steamid': str # the user’s SteamID
'num_games_owned': int # number of games owned by the user
'num_reviews': int #n umber of reviews written by the user
'playtime_forever': int # lifetime playtime tracked in this app
'playtime_last_two_weeks': int # playtime tracked in the past two weeks for this app
'last_played': int # time for when the user last played
}
'language': str # language the user indicated when authoring the review
'review': str # text of written review
'timestamp_created': int # date the review was created (unix timestamp)
'timestamp_updated': int # date the review was last updated (unix timestamp)
'voted_up': bool # true means it was a positive recommendation
'votes_up': int # the number of users that found this review helpful
'votes_funny': int # the number of users that found this review funny
'weighted_vote_score': int # (beta) value not used
'comment_count': int # number of comments posted on this review
'steam_purchase': bool # true if the user purchased the game on Steam
'received_for_free': bool # true if the user checked a box saying they got the app for free
'written_during_early_access': bool # true if the user posted this review while the game was in Early Access
}If printProgress is set to True, the function will print to the console every time a request to the Steam Web API succeeds.
➕ Dependencies
This script uses Requests.
To install dependencies with pipenv, use pipenv install requests in your project directory.
If you don't want to use pipenv, you can just use pip install requests.
🚸 Warning!
This script, in its primitive state, is blocking. The Steam Web API only allows 20 reviews to be returned at a time, so multiple blocking requests are made until all reviews have been received. For real-time applications, this will require transitioning the script to a http request library with support for concurrent asynchronous requests.