Steam API all games

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There is no “Steam API all games and all their details in one go”.

You use GetAppList to get all the steam apps. Then you have to query each app with appdetails which will take a long time.

GetAppList : http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamApps/GetAppList/v0002/?format=json

{
  "applist": {
    "apps": [
      {"appid": 10, "name": "Counter-Strike"},
      {"appid": 20, "name": "Team Fortress Classic"},
      {"appid": 30, "name": "Day of Defeat"},
      {"appid": 40, "name": "Deathmatch Classic"}
    ]
  }
}

appdetails : http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=10

{
  "10": {
    "success": true, 
    "data": {
      "type": "game",
      "name": "Counter-Strike",
      "steam_appid": 10,
      "required_age": 0,
      "is_free": false,
      "detailed_description": "...",
      "about_the_game": "...",
      "short_description": "...",
      "developers": ["Valve"],
      "publishers": ["Valve"],
      "EVEN_MORE_DATA": {}
    }
  }
}

There is a general API rate limit for each unique IP adress of 200 requests in five minutes which is one request every 1.5 seconds.

Another solution would be to use a third-party service such as SteamApis which offers more options but they are inevitably bound to what Steam offers in their API.

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