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Itch Io Game Metadata Scraper Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage
1,744 datasets. Pick your catch. Every guide here is built on what the catalog can actually prove.
1,744 datasets. Pick your catch.
What do teams actually do with 1.5 million indie listings?
Profile the long tail first: pricing, tag and platform coverage across listings that storefront-level trackers never reach. Because every row ships a genre, a price string and platform flags, plain aggregations answer questions commercial trackers cannot — how many free Horror browser games appeared this month, or how Android releases distribute across the catalog.
Monitor prices forward, not backward. Historical pricing and discount snapshots are not exposed anywhere public, so time-series analysis means continuous re-collection keyed on data-game_id, storing dated snapshots as you go.
Enrich rather than duplicate. The RAWG Video Games Database API contributes 500,000+ games across 50 platforms, 1.1M ratings and 58K tags for matching itch.io listings against a rated reference corpus, and the Common Crawl Web Corpus — 300+ billion crawled pages in monthly WARC/WAT/WET drops — preserves storefront and wiki context at web scale when you need history itch.io itself does not publish.
| Field | Where it appears | Example |
|---|---|---|
| data-game_id | Numeric project ID attribute on each game_cell div in browse HTML | 4892272 |
| title | game_title anchor in HTML; plainTitle element in RSS | FEED THE FISH |
| description | Short blurb in the game_text div; RSS description CDATA | Feed the fish. Do not look out the window. |
| author | Creator display name in the game_author anchor | Nincy12 |
| url | Canonical game page on the creator's subdomain | |
| genre | Primary classification in the game_genre div | Adventure |
| platforms | RSS platforms block flags: windows, mac, linux, android, html | <android>yes</android> |
| createDate | RFC 822 publication timestamp in the RSS createDate element | Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:47:40 GMT |
| imageurl | Cover thumbnail hosted on img.itch.zone at a 315x250 crop | img.itch.zone/.../315x250%23c/...jpg |
Pick up where this leaves off
Every one of these ships with sample rows before you commit to anything.
RAWG Video Games Database API
slug · name · name_original …+24 more
Common Crawl Web Corpus
urlkey · timestamp · filename …+2 more
Steam Store - Scrapeable Catalog
steam_appid · name · type …+14 more
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How many games are listed on itch.io?
The games browse index reported 1,509,534 results and the broader catalog 1,470,173+ results as of August 2026, spanning games, game assets, tools, soundtracks, physical games, comics and books. New listings appear continuously — feed items carry same-day timestamps — and the archive reaches back to the site's 2013 launch.