Using STEAM database as source for metadata/media scraping

I’ve posted on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/launchbox/comments/cqkpv3/is_mass_importing_game_names_from_a_list_possible/) about using LB as a game catalog. Gave it a try with some ~900 titles using the method described there to import. My experience:

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From the 946 games I’ve imported, 295 were not found on LBDatabase/Wikipedia (games like “Anima Gate of Memories - The Nameless Chronicles“, “Atelier Rorona The Alchemist of Arland“, “Beholder 2“, etc). About 30 were detected incorrectly, most of them didn’t have the exact game name record on either databases;

Images available on EmuMovies/LBDatabase are somewhat irregular for this purpose (some games only have “Boxes”, some others only “Carts“, etc);

There is a very small number of videos available for PC games.

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Is is possible to use Steam database as an alternative to LBDB/Wikipedia? It would be great since it does already have everything (meta, images and videos).

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It would also be great to have an alternative selection of image types for computer games since Launchbox defaults are mostly for consoles/arcades.

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