Steam Reviews

A package of getting game reviews from steam easily, for further text analytics projects.

Install

The package is available in PyPi.

pip install steam_reviews

Use

Basic usage

For example, we load the reviews of Cyberpunk 2077 from the api. The function load_from_api takes two arguments.

• First is necessary, the appid. It can be find in the web page of the game in steam store. Like Cyberpunk 2077's page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1091500/_2077/, the number 1091500 in the url is its appid.
• Second can be ignored, if you want to take all the reviews, it controls the number of reviews that the program will take from the web api.

from steam_reviews import ReviewLoader
# AppId is 1091500, and we need 1000 reviews
reviews = ReviewLoader().load_from_api(1091500, 1000)
# Save the review text to a list
review_list = reviews.review_list()
print(review_list[0])
# Save the data as json file, provide the folder path as the argument
reviews.save_json('path/to/data/')

With more parameters

You can add more parameters to get customized reviews. More information can be found in the functions' documents in the source code.

set_language() is used most frequently, it sets the language of the reviews that downloaded by the program. All supported language can be found here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/localization.

from steam_reviews import ReviewLoader
# Set the language of reviews to english
reviews_en = ReviewLoader().set_language('english') \
                        .load_from_api(1091500, 1000)
# Set the language of reviews to simplified chinese
reviews_zh = ReviewLoader().set_language('schinese') \
                        .load_from_api(1091500, 1000)

Load reviews of several games

The funciton load_batch_from_api() can receive a list containing appids and request all the reviews for each of the game.

from steam_reviews import ReviewLoader
appids = [1091500, 1097150]
reviews = ReviewLoader().set_language('english') \
                        .set_num_per_page(50) \
                        .load_batch_from_api(appids, 1000)

Load from local json files

from steam_reviews import ReviewLoader
# File path of the saved json data
file_path = 'path/to/data/reviews_1091500.json'
reviews = ReviewLoader().load_from_local(file_path)