The analytical site Steam Spy was cut off from the data of the Valve game store for unknown reasons. This was told by the creator of the service Sergey Galenkin on Twitter.
UPD. Game Spy resumed activity 5 hours after the shutdown message. As it turned out, Valve really changed the rules for accessing the Steam API, reducing the limit of requests to the site database from 100 thousand to 900 per hour.
“The Game Spy data analyzer is currently running at 50% capacity, but I will solve this problem in the coming days,” Galenkin promised.
Earlier, Sergey Galenkin was not sure for what reason Valve closed access to the Steam software interface (API) for Steam Spy.
“I do not know if this was done intentionally, or if Valve introduced new rules that I violated [and was disabled automatically],” Sergey wrote.
He noted that Valve can change API access rules without warning, and this has happened before.
“If Valve wants to shut down Steam Spy, I’ll do it. And if they just changed the rules of the API, I’m ready to completely change the site,” added Galenkin.
The Steam Spy website appeared in 2015. Steam Spy uses the Steam API to approximate the volume of game sales based on data on what products the users of the Valve platform have.
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