steam-market-search

Steam Market Search

Steam Market Search is a NodeJS package to search the Steam Community Market. Using this package you will be able to search and retrieve images, prices, descriptions, listing counts and other various information made available by each app.

Contents	Type
Getting Started	Setup
search(appid, options)	Method
Basic Search	Code Example
Advanced Search	Code Example
setRequestOptions(options)	Method
Custom Headers	Code Example
Shortcuts	Code Example
Steam Item Types	Table Data
Multiple Filters	Code Example
SearchOptions	Type

Getting Started

Install via NPM

npm install steam-market-search

Then you can require the package in your project using TypeScript

import { market } from 'steam-market-search';

or JavaScript

const market = require('steam-market-search').market;  

Usage

Below is my attempt at documenting how to use this package. If you feel like you can do better please feel free to make a pull request.

search(appid, options);

Searches the marketplace for items.

Property	Description	Type	Default
appid	The AppID of the game you want to fetch items for. Use 753 (steam) for items like trading cards.	number	none
options	Either a SearchOptions object or a string to be used as the search query.	SearchOptions or string	none

Basic Search

Search 730 (CSGO) for a gun skin called Death by Kitty.

market.search(730, 'Death By Kitty').then(results => {
    console.log(results);
});

Advanced Search

Search 290340 (Armello) for a Dire Key item using a custom item type

market.search(290340, { query: 'Dire', 'category_290340_type[]': 'tag_key' }).then(results => {
    console.log(results);
});

setRequestOptions(RequestOptions)

Allows you to define custom RequestOptions like headers to be passed when making API Calls.

Property	Description	Type	Default
RequestOptions	An object of custom request options to be passed during the API Call.	RequestOptions	{ }

Custom Headers

This is an example that uses setRequestOptions() to change the language of the search results

market.setRequestOptions({
    headers: {
        'Accept-Language': 'de'
    }
});

Now all requests made on market will be in German.

market.search(730, 'Death by Kitty').then(results => console.log(results));  

Shortcuts

As a lot of people use this for apps like CS:GO, TF2 or Dota there are several shortcuts to quickly search that specific app.

market.searchCSGO('Death by Kitty');
market.searchTF2('Crate Key');  

// tag_item_class_4 = Emoticons
market.searchCommunity({ query: 'Heart', 'category_753_item_class[]': 'tag_item_class_4' });

Additional Examples

Below are some more examples or explanations that may be helpful

Steam Item Types

When using searchCommunity() you may want to only fetch certain types of items. Below is a table listing each type and the value required to filter

Type	Option	Value
Trading Card	category_753_item_class[]	tag_item_class_2
Emotion	category_753_item_class[]	tag_item_class_4
Profile Background	category_753_item_class[]	tag_item_class_3
Booster Pack	category_753_item_class[]	tag_item_class_5
Sale Items (saliens)	category_753_item_class[]	tag_item_class_10
Consumable	category_753_item_class[]	tag_item_class_6
Normal Cards	category_753_cardborder[]	tag_cardborder_0
Foil Cards	category_753_cardborder[]	tag_cardborder_1
Rarity (Common)	category_753_droprate[]	tag_droprate_0
Rarity (Uncommon)	category_753_droprate[]	tag_droprate_1
Rarity (Rare)	category_753_droprate[]	tag_droprate_2
Rarity (Extraordinary)	category_753_droprate[]	tag_droprate_3
Game	category_753_Game[]	tag_app_APPID

Multiple Filters

The following example will search for any Normal or Foil Trading Cards that contain the word Heart

market.searchCommunity({
    query: 'Heart',
    'category_753_cardborder[]': [
        'tag_cardborder_0', // Normal Border
        'tag_cardborder_1'  // Foil Border
    ],
    'category_753_item_class[]': 'tag_item_class_2' // Trading Cards
}).then(results => console.log(results));

Filter by game

If you only want community items from a specific game you can filter them using the category_753_Game[] option. Like all options ending with square brackets you can pass multiple game appids at once.

// Search for steam community items from the game "100% Orange Juice" 
market.search(753, { 'category_753_Game[]': 'tag_app_282800', query: 'stars' });

Type: SearchOptions

This is the options object you would pass instead of a string when searching

Property	Description	Type	Default
query	The search query	string	None
appid	The game AppID you want to find items for.	number	None
start	Start at	number	None
count	Number of results to be returned in the search.	number	50
sort_column	Sort the results by price or quantity available	string	None
sort_dir	Sort the results ascending or descending	string	asc
search_descriptions	Allows your search query to match descriptions too	number	0
norender	Enables or disables HTML response. Changing this will likely prevent the search results from returning.	number	1
custom	Allows custom parameters like cateogry filters	string or array	None