# FreeToGame Free Games Scraper (`ninhothedev/freetogame-scraper`) Actor

$0.5/1K 🔥 Fast FreeToGame scraper! Free-to-play PC & browser games — genre, publisher, developer & release. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Browse or list & pull the full free-games catalog for apps ⚡

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninhothedev/freetogame-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ninhothedev](https://apify.com/ninhothedev) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## FreeToGame Free Games Scraper 🎮

Scrape the entire [FreeToGame](https://www.freetogame.com/) catalog of **free-to-play PC and browser games** into clean, structured JSON — no API key, no login, no proxy required. Filter by platform, genre/category and sort order, or pull full details (description, minimum system requirements, screenshots) for any specific game.

Perfect for building **game-discovery apps, catalogs, price/deal trackers, market research and ML datasets**.

***

### ✨ Features

- **Full catalog** — hundreds of live free-to-play titles, refreshed straight from FreeToGame.
- **Two modes**:
  - `games` — list games, optionally filtered by **platform**, **category/genre** and **sort order**.
  - `game` — fetch rich detail (full description, system requirements, screenshots) for specific game ids.
- **Rich, normalised fields** — id, title, genre, platform, publisher, developer, release date, thumbnail, URLs and more.
- **Datacenter-friendly** — clean JSON endpoint, so it runs fast and cheap without residential proxies.
- **Every field nullable** — predictable schema that never breaks your downstream pipeline.

***

### 🚀 Example input

**Get the most popular free PC games:**

```json
{
  "mode": "games",
  "platform": "pc",
  "sortBy": "popularity",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

**Get all free browser MMORPGs, newest first:**

```json
{
  "mode": "games",
  "platform": "browser",
  "category": "mmorpg",
  "sortBy": "release-date"
}
```

**Get full details for specific games:**

```json
{
  "mode": "game",
  "gameIds": [452, 540]
}
```

***

### 📦 Example output

```json
{
  "id": 452,
  "title": "Call of Duty: Warzone",
  "short_description": "A standalone free-to-play battle royale.",
  "genre": "Shooter",
  "platform": "Windows",
  "publisher": "Activision",
  "developer": "Infinity Ward",
  "release_date": "2020-03-10",
  "thumbnail": "https://www.freetogame.com/g/452/thumbnail.jpg",
  "game_url": "https://www.freetogame.com/open/call-of-duty-warzone",
  "profile_url": "https://www.freetogame.com/call-of-duty-warzone",
  "description": "Call of Duty: Warzone is both a standalone free-to-play battle royale...",
  "minimum_system_requirements": {
    "os": "Windows 7 64-Bit (SP1) or Windows 10 64-Bit",
    "processor": "Intel Core i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300",
    "memory": "8GB RAM",
    "graphics": "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 / GeForce GTX 1650",
    "storage": "175GB HD space"
  },
  "screenshots": [
    "https://www.freetogame.com/g/452/Call-of-Duty-Warzone-1.jpg"
  ],
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-18T12:00:00+00:00"
}
```

> In `games` mode, `description`, `minimum_system_requirements` and `screenshots` are `null` (they are only available in `game` detail mode).

***

### 🎛️ Input reference

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `mode` | select | `games` (list) or `game` (details for specific ids). |
| `platform` | select | `all`, `pc` or `browser`. Used in `games` mode. |
| `category` | string | Optional genre slug, e.g. `mmorpg`, `shooter`, `strategy`, `moba`, `battle-royale`. |
| `sortBy` | select | `popularity`, `release-date`, `alphabetical` or `relevance`. |
| `gameIds` | array | Numeric game ids to fetch in `game` mode, e.g. `[452, 540]`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Max games to return (default `100`, max `1000`). |

***

### 💸 Pricing

This actor is lightweight and datacenter-friendly. Expect roughly **~$0.5 per 1,000 games** scraped on the Apify platform (plus your plan's platform usage). A full catalog pull of the entire FreeToGame library costs just cents.

***

### 🧩 Use cases

- **Game catalogs & directories** — power a searchable free-games database.
- **Discovery apps** — recommend new free-to-play titles by genre and platform.
- **Datasets** — build ML / analytics datasets of the free-to-play market.
- **Marketing & market research** — track publishers, genres and release trends.

***

### 🔍 FreeToGame Scraper vs. building it yourself

| | This Actor | DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Ready in seconds | Write & maintain HTTP code |
| Schema | Normalised, fully nullable | You handle edge cases |
| Detail enrichment | Built in | Extra work |
| Scheduling & storage | Apify platform | You build it |

***

### 🔗 Related actors

- [CheapShark Game Deals Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/cheapshark-game-deals-scraper)
- [Steam Games Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/steam-games-scraper)
- [Google Play Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/google-play-scraper)
- [Pokemon Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/pokemon-scraper)

***

### 🏷️ Keywords

freetogame scraper, free to play games, free games api, free pc games, free browser games, game catalog scraper, game dataset, mmorpg scraper, video game data, game discovery api

***

*Not affiliated with FreeToGame. Data is fetched from FreeToGame's public API for research and aggregation purposes. Respect their terms of use.*

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to scrape. 'games' fetches a list of free-to-play games (optionally filtered by platform, category and sort order). 'game' fetches full details (description, system requirements, screenshots) for the specific game ids you provide.

## `platform` (type: `string`):

Filter the games list by platform. 'all' returns both PC and browser games. Only used in 'games' mode.

## `category` (type: `string`):

Optional category/genre slug to filter the games list, e.g. 'mmorpg', 'shooter', 'strategy', 'action-rpg', 'moba', 'battle-royale'. Leave empty for all categories. Only used in 'games' mode.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Sort order for the games list. Only used in 'games' mode.

## `gameIds` (type: `array`):

List of FreeToGame numeric game ids to fetch full details for. Required when mode is 'game'. Example: \[452, 540]. Find ids in the 'id' field of the games-list output or in a game's freetogame.com URL.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of games to return. Caps the games list (or the number of ids processed in 'game' mode).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "games",
  "platform": "all",
  "category": "mmorpg",
  "sortBy": "popularity",
  "gameIds": [
    452,
    540
  ],
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ninhothedev/freetogame-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ninhothedev/freetogame-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call ninhothedev/freetogame-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ninhothedev/freetogame-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ALfxcufGavDZOhgAP/builds/bIfcTtRb8YV4wLoHZ/openapi.json