Retrieve live concurrent player counts for a Steam app using GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers

domain: partner.steamgames.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Call GET https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/ with the target appid -- no API key is required
  2. Read the response's player_count and result fields (result 1 indicates success)
  3. Cache results and poll at a sane interval rather than per-request, since this is a coarse, slowly-changing metric
  4. Combine with GetGlobalStatsForGame if you also need aggregate global stat totals rather than just concurrent player count
  5. Handle apps with no data (e.g., unreleased or delisted titles) returning a zero or error result gracefully

Known gotchas

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