Steam API - Game Controller Support

Question

I'm working with the Steam API to get a list of games to show a user, and it would be nice to know if the game supports controllers. Is there a way to find out if a game has full or some controller support from the Steam API?

Answer 1

You can find this information via the unofficial StoreFront API, using the appdetails call.

http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails/?appids=<<APPID>>&filters=categories

Replace <<APPID>> with the numeric application ID. This will return a json object similar to this:

{
    "440":{
        "success":true,
        "data":{
            "categories":[
                {"id":"1","description":"Multi-player"},
                {"id":"27","description":"Cross-Platform Multiplayer"},
                {"id":"22","description":"Steam Achievements"},
                {"id":"14","description":"Commentary available"},
                {"id":"13","description":"Captions available"},
                {"id":"31","description":"VR Support"},
                {"id":"15","description":"Stats"},
                {"id":"8","description":"Valve Anti-Cheat enabled"},
                {"id":"18","description":"Partial Controller Support"},
                {"id":"17","description":"Includes level editor"},
                {"id":"29","description":"Steam Trading Cards"},
                {"id":"30","description":"Steam Workshop"}
            ]
        }
    }
}

Within the categories key, you will need to look for two IDs. If you look for an id of 17, this indicates "Partial Controller Support". If you look for an id of 28, this indicates "Full controller support" and looks like this in the list:

{"id":"28","description":"Full controller support"}