Steam and App Store Reviews

Three new integrations live this week: Steam Reviews, Steam Discussions, and App Store Reviews.

The fun part is they all work completely differently under the hood.

Steam Reviews has a proper JSON API. You give it an app ID, and it hands back reviews. Polite, clean, easy. Exactly how integrations should work.

Steam Discussions has no API at all. Valve just never built one. So chatter scrapes the HTML directly, parses out threads and replies, and feeds them into the same pipeline as everything else. It's slower, deliberate delays between requests, so Valve doesn't get mad, but it picks up bug reports and feature discussions that never make it into reviews.

App Store Reviews come through Apple's RSS feed. No auth, no API keys. You give it an app ID and a country code and it hands back the most recent reviews as JSON. Poll a few countries, grab the new ones, done.

All three get translated if they're not in English, then clustered alongside everything from Discord, GitHub, and forums. Same player complaint on Steam and Discord? Shows up once, not twice.

Check it out at Chatter.Plus