itch.io hosts over 500,000 indie games and has roughly 10 million registered users. It is the dominant platform for game jams, experimental titles, and developers who want to publish without a publisher. All of that catalog data — titles, ratings, genres, platforms, creator information — is publicly visible. None of it is available through a bulk API. This post covers what data is actually accessible on itch.io, who needs it and why, and how to run our actor to extract it without building or maintaining any scraping infrastructure. The data access problem There is no public itch.io API for catalog data. itch.io provides a limited API for developers to manage their own games and purchases, but there is no endpoint that lets you query the catalog by genre, rating, platform, or creator. If you want a list of the top-rated horror games, or all puzzle games with more than 1,000 ratings, or every title a specific developer has published — you cannot get that from an API call.…