Monthly concurrent player counts for any Steam game as a normalized time series, growth rates, and the live most-played feed. No Steam Web API key, no scraping SteamDB.
# one POST, every source POST https://api.trendsapi.ai/api Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY { "mode": "get_growth", "source": "steam", "keyword": "Baldur's Gate 3", "percent_growth": ["3M", "12M"] }
{
"search_term": "Baldur's Gate 3",
"data_source": "steam",
"results": [
{
"period": "3M",
"growth": -3.2,
"direction": "decrease"
},
{
"period": "12M",
"growth": 14.6,
"direction": "increase"
}
]
}Steam's own Web API does not expose player-count history, and SteamDB is a website you are not supposed to scrape. Trends API gives you the same class of data as clean JSON: how many people play a game, month over month, with growth computed and a live most-played feed.
Player counts answer the question hype cannot: is anyone still playing? A game can dominate YouTube for a week and lose half its players in a month. Querying both sources here, on the same 0-100 scale, separates launch noise from durable traction.
Check whether a genre is growing or whether last year's hit was the peak.
Track player momentum for public game publishers.
Time your release window against competitor decay curves.
Pick games with rising player counts, not just current hype.
| Steam Web API / SteamDB | Trends API | |
|---|---|---|
| Player history | not exposed by Steam | monthly series |
| SteamDB scraping | against ToS, brittle | one call, JSON |
| Growth rates | compute yourself | 3M/6M/12M/5Y built in |
| Cross-industry compare | no | same scale as 14 other sources |
| Free tier | n/a | 100 requests/month |
Historical trend series for a keyword on this source, normalized 0-100.
Growth percentages over 3M / 6M / 12M / 5Y windows.
21 live trending feeds across platforms, no keyword needed.
Monthly concurrent player counts for any game as a normalized time series, growth percentages over 3M/6M/12M/5Y windows, and the live Steam Most Played feed.
No. One Trends API key covers Steam and every other source.
SteamDB is a website you scrape against its terms. Trends API gives you the same class of data as clean JSON with normalization and growth already computed, in the same response shape as 14 other sources.
Query steam alongside youtube or google search for the game title and compare normalized scores. Player counts and content interest often diverge in interesting ways.
Up to 5 years of monthly data on paid plans; 90 days on the free tier.
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