FR: Game metadata from Steam

[mavanmanen]

Steam has the best metadata out there and is easy to access and parse in JSON format.
A list of all the app ids is available at https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamApps/GetAppList/v0002/?key={API_KEY}&format=json
A daily task could be run to update the local DB with this information for quick searching.
With the app id, the metadata can be grabbed at https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids={APP_ID}

[mavanmanen]

Yesterday I did some quick and dirty coding to test the apis to grab this data and use the drop api to update my games with the steam description etc.

I ran into one caveat: Steam does not provide traditional cover art images as they use their own format for this in the store.

[DecDuck]

You may be able to search SteamGridDB for images if you have the App ID? Sounds like something we need to figure out.

[naerymdan]

Maybe https://www.steamgriddb.com/ has an api, they do offer easy access to the original steam assets.

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[Hicks-99]

Yesterday I did some quick and dirty coding to test the apis to grab this data and use the drop api to update my games with the steam description etc.

I ran into one caveat: Steam does not provide traditional cover art images as they use their own format for this in the store.

Steam offers traditional cover art for most games, just take a look at your Steam Library.
Getting the metadata you need from Steam isn't exactly straightforward. The data is split across several API endpoints and some information isn't available through any endpoint at all, you have to scrape it from the HTML. Trust me, it's not fun.

I'm nearly finished implementing a Steam metadata provider. By the end of the week, I plan to open a pull request with my changes.