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Steam API

This repository contains Python code to download data through Steam API.

Data

Data is available as a snapshot in another repository.

Usage

• To download an exhaustive list of Steam app ids, along with their app names, run:

python steam_catalog_utils.py

• To download app details of Steam games, run:

python steam_spy.py

• To aggregate all the data contained in app details, run:

python aggregate_steam_spy.py

• To specifically aggregate store descriptions, contained in app details, run:

python aggregate_game_text_descriptions.py

• To plot data for each store attribute, categorie, and genre, run:

python analyze_steam_database.py

• To visualize categories and genres, with a 2D embedding (t-SNE (author's FAQ, wikipedia) or UMAP), run:

python build_tag_map.py

Results

Store attributes

Outputs for each Steam store attribute can be found in plots/.

Confidence intervals can be found in plots_with_confidence_interval/.

Categories and genres

Outputs for each categorie and genre can be found in plots_categories_and_genres/.

Confidence intervals can be found in plots_categories_and_genres_with_confidence_interval/.

Visualization of categories and genres

Addendum

If you like these stats, check out my other repository with a focus on Humble Monthly bundles.