# GameDataKit Steam App Intelligence

> GameDataKit Steam App Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from api.borisinc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns live Steam game data including details, review scores, concurrent player count, and owner estimates for a given Steam app ID

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.borisinc.com/paid/steam/app/%7Bappid%7D
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/gamedatakit-steam-app-intelligence-84699747
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Dh6b2srF0fHrO2WEu08OD

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability gamedatakit-steam-app-intelligence-84699747
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the live Steam data for ARC Raiders — I want to know how many people are playing right now, what the review score is, and roughly how many people own it?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time Steam game intelligence — live player counts, review sentiment, and ownership estimates — without setting up an API key or account. Ideal for per-call market research tasks, agent-driven competitive analysis, or one-off lookups where the x402 micropayment model fits the workflow. Prefer this over scraping Steam directly when you need structured, aggregated data in a single call.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent appid returns an error or empty details
- Steam API rate limiting may cause intermittent failures
- Owner estimate may be unavailable for very new or low-player games
- Payment failure via x402 prevents data retrieval
- Review score may not be available for games with too few reviews

## How this service works

Live Steam best-sellers, deals, per-app detail and IGDB metadata, Twitch hype scores, and agent utilities for verification and extraction. From $0.001 a call, free samples on every endpoint, auth-then-capture. MCP and HTTP.

## Output

A JSON object containing the Steam app ID, game details (name, etc.), review score label (e.g. 'Very Positive'), live concurrent player count, and a mid-point owner estimate (e.g. '5M'), giving a comprehensive snapshot of a game's current market position.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "appid": 2429640,
  "details": {
   "name": "ARC Raiders"
  },
  "reviews": {
   "score": "Very Positive"
  },
  "live_players": 41230,
  "owner_estimate": {
   "mid": "5M"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/gamedatakit-steam-app-intelligence-84699747/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.borisinc.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.borisinc.com/llms.txt)