Get A List Of Steam Games

Update: see herefor a new version which works on the new steam site.

Using Python and Beautiful Soup. Just a quick (ugly) script thrown together for future reference.

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from urllib import urlopen
import re
import codecs

html_text = urlopen('http://store.steampowered.com/search/?advanced=0&term=&category1=998').read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_text)
f = codecs.open('./output.txt', 'w', 'iso-8859-1')

pages = 1

print "-- Retrieving number of pages..."

for link in soup.findAll('a', attrs={'href' : re.compile("http://store.steampowered.com/search/\?sort_by=&sort_order=ASC&category1=998&page=\d+")}):
 try:
  page = int(link.string)
  if page > pages:
   pages = page
  except ValueError:
   pass

print "-- Pages found:",pages

for page in range(1,pages+1):
 print "-- Retrieving page:",page
 html_text = urlopen('http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=&sort_order=ASC&category1=998&page='+str(page)).read().decode('iso-8859-1')
 soup = BeautifulSoup(html_text)
 for item in soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class' : "global_area_tabs_item_txt"}):
  f.write(item.h3.string+'\r\n')

f.close()