# cs2.sh Resources

> Short, solution-based guides for using the cs2.sh API to answer CS2 market-data questions.

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## Current prices

Find the current ask, bid, and available volume for an item or marketplace.

- [How to Get Current CS2 Item Prices](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-current-cs2-item-prices) - Get live CS2 skin prices from BUFF, Youpin, CSFloat, Skinport, Steam, and C5Game in one request, with the exact fields each marketplace returns and how fresh they are. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-current-cs2-item-prices.md))
- [How to Compare CS2 Skin Prices Across Marketplaces](https://cs2.sh/resources/compare-cs2-skin-prices-across-marketplaces) - Compare CS2 prices across BUFF, Youpin, CSFloat, Skinport, Steam, and C5Game in one request, with the identity, timing, and settlement rules that make it valid. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/compare-cs2-skin-prices-across-marketplaces.md))
- [How to Get Current BUFF Prices for CS2 Items](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-buff-prices) - Get live BUFF sell listings, buy orders, and order counts for CS2 items, plus BUFF float-range and fade-range pricing for exact float bands. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-buff-prices.md))
- [How to Get Current Steam Community Market Prices](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-steam-market-prices) - Get live Steam Community Market ask, bid, and order counts for CS2 items, plus full-depth orderbooks, without scraping or rate limits. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-steam-market-prices.md))
- [How to Get Current CSFloat Prices for CS2 Items](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-csfloat-prices) - Get live CSFloat sell listings, buy orders, and listing counts for CS2 items and Doppler variants, with the exact fields CSFloat does and does not publish. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-csfloat-prices.md))
- [How to Get CSFloat Buy-Order Prices](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-csfloat-buy-order-prices) - Get the highest CSFloat buy order for any CS2 item or Doppler variant, follow how it moved over time, and read it correctly without bid depth. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-csfloat-buy-order-prices.md))
- [How to Get Current Skinport Prices for CS2 Items](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-skinport-prices) - Get live Skinport asks, listing counts, ask distribution, and rolling 24h to 90d sale statistics for CS2 items in one request. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-skinport-prices.md))
- [How to Get Current Youpin Prices for CS2 Items](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-youpin-prices) - Get live Youpin sell listings, buy orders, and order counts for CS2 items and Doppler variants, with collection times and variant coverage explained. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-youpin-prices.md))

## Price history

Choose the right historical series and retrieve prices at the granularity the job needs.

- [How to Get Historical CS2 Skin Prices](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-historical-cs2-skin-prices) - Choose the right CS2 price history dataset: intraday OHLC from 2025, archive prices and supply from 2023, or completed sales from Steam, CSFloat, and Youpin. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-historical-cs2-skin-prices.md))
- [How to Get BUFF163 Price History with an API](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-buff163-price-history) - Get BUFF ask and bid OHLC from December 24, 2025, long-term BUFF archive prices from 2023, and float-range price history, with the handoffs made explicit. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-buff163-price-history.md))
- [How to Get C5Game Intraday Price History](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-c5game-intraday-price-history) - Get C5Game ask and bid OHLC candles at 5m and 30m intervals from December 24, 2025, plus long-term C5Game archive prices from 2023. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-c5game-intraday-price-history.md))
- [How to Get CSFloat Listing Price History](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-csfloat-price-history) - Get CSFloat ask and bid OHLC candles for CS2 items and Doppler variants from December 24, 2025, at 5m, 30m, 1h, or 1d intervals. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-csfloat-price-history.md))
- [How to Get Skinport Price History for CS2](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-skinport-price-history) - Get Skinport ask OHLC candles from December 24, 2025 and pair them with Skinport's rolling 24h to 90d sale statistics for completed-sale context. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-skinport-price-history.md))
- [How to Get Steam Listing Price History for CS2](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-steam-listing-price-history) - Get Steam Community Market ask and bid OHLC candles with active order counts from December 24, 2025, and keep them separate from Steam's native sale graph. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-steam-listing-price-history.md))
- [How to Get Youpin Price History for CS2](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-youpin-price-history) - Get Youpin ask and bid OHLC from December 24, 2025, archive prices from 2023, and sampled sale prices at 1h, 4h, and 12h with the sampling model explained. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-youpin-price-history.md))

## Sales and volume

Work with completed sales, listing activity, supply, and marketplace volume without mixing their meanings.

- [How to Get CSFloat Sales History with an API](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-csfloat-sales-history) - Get CSFloat daily average sale prices and sale counts for CS2 items and Doppler variants from 2022 onward, with the exact request, response shape, and field meanings. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-csfloat-sales-history.md))
- [How to Get Steam Community Market Sale History](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-steam-market-sale-history) - Get Steam Community Market median sale price and purchase volume for CS2 items, daily since April 26, 2013 and hourly since May 9, 2026, through one API request. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-steam-market-sale-history.md))
- [How to Get CS2 Sale Volume and Supply Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-cs2-sale-volume) - Choose between CSFloat sale counts, Steam purchase counts, and approximate aggregate volume, and pair them with approximate item supply from 2023. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-cs2-sale-volume.md))
- [How to Compare Steam and CSFloat Sales History](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-compare-steam-and-csfloat-sales-history) - Join Steam median sale prices with CSFloat average sale prices on the same dates, and handle the statistical and currency differences that make a naive join wrong. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-compare-steam-and-csfloat-sales-history.md))

## Variants and float

Price Doppler phases, Gamma Doppler phases, Case Hardened tiers, fade ranges, and float bands.

- [How to Get CS2 Doppler Phase Price Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-doppler-phase-price-data) - Get prices for exact Doppler and Gamma Doppler phases, Ruby, Sapphire, Black Pearl, and Emerald, using stable version codes across current prices, history, and sales. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-doppler-phase-price-data.md))

## Catalog and identity

Resolve item names, IDs, wears, collections, images, categories, and float limits.

- [How to Get Float Ranges for Every CS2 Item](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-cs2-float-ranges) - Get CS2 float bounds from the item schema, tell finish-level and wear-level ranges apart, and price an exact float using BUFF float-range buckets. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-get-cs2-float-ranges.md))

## Build with the API

Put the endpoints into production workflows for caching, backfills, charts, alerts, and monitoring.

- [How to Scrape Official Steam Community Market Prices](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-priceoverview) - Use priceoverview on the official Steam Community Market to read one CS2 item's lowest listing, median price, and volume without an API key. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-priceoverview.md))
- [How to Scrape Official Steam Community Market Catalog](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-search) - Use search/render on the official Steam Community Market to discover CS2 item names, listing counts, prices, images, and catalog pages. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-search.md))
- [How to Scrape Official Steam Community Market Listings](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-listings) - Fetch official Steam Community Market listing pages for a CS2 item, join listing and asset records, paginate, and detect grouped redirects. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-listings.md))
- [How to Scrape Official Steam Community Market Orderbooks](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-orderbook) - Fetch buy and sell depth from the official Steam Community Market through its current orderbook route or older histogram interface. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-orderbook.md))
- [How to Scrape Official Steam Community Market Sale History](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-sale-history) - Extract median sale prices and purchase counts from official Steam Community Market pages while handling classic and grouped formats. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-scrape-steam-market-sale-history.md))
- [How to Reliably Scrape Official Steam Community Market](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-build-reliable-steam-market-scraper) - Build a reliable scraper for the official Steam Community Market with identity checks, currency validation, throttling, retries, and raw storage. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/how-to-build-reliable-steam-market-scraper.md))

## API comparisons

Choose a data provider by signal coverage, history depth, marketplace breadth, limits, and cost.

- [Best CS2 Skin Price APIs in 2026](https://cs2.sh/resources/best-cs2-skin-price-apis) - Choose a CS2 price API by current-market breadth, completed sales, history depth, variants, inventory tools, request limits, and cost. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/best-cs2-skin-price-apis.md))
- [cs2.sh vs Scraping the Official Steam Community Market](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2-price-api-vs-scraping-steam) - Compare scraping the official Steam Community Market with cs2.sh intraday OHLC, full-depth orderbook history, and median sales since 2013. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2-price-api-vs-scraping-steam.md))
- [cs2.sh vs Pricempire for CS2 Price Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-pricempire) - Choose cs2.sh for deeper CS2 price and sale history or Pricempire for broader marketplace coverage and trading-product APIs. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-pricempire.md))
- [cs2.sh vs CSGOSKINS.GG for CS2 Price Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-csgoskins-gg) - Choose between cs2.sh's deeper six-market data and CSGOSKINS.GG's five-minute listing feed across 36 CS2 marketplaces. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-csgoskins-gg.md))
- [cs2.sh vs SteamApis for CS2 Market Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-steamapis) - Choose cs2.sh for deep CS2 price and sale history or SteamApis for wider multi-game coverage, live offers, and per-sale details. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-steamapis.md))
- [cs2.sh vs SteamWebAPI for CS2 Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-steamwebapi) - Choose cs2.sh for deep CS2 price and sale history or SteamWebAPI for broader Steam inventory, float, account, and trade APIs. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-steamwebapi.md))
- [cs2.sh vs Official Skinport API for CS2 Market Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-skinport-api) - Compare Skinport's official current-item, rolling-sale, and live-event APIs with cs2.sh intraday OHLC and broader historical datasets. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-skinport-api.md))
- [cs2.sh vs Official CSFloat API for CS2 Market Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-csfloat-api) - Compare CSFloat's official listing API with cs2.sh bid and ask history, completed-sale data from 2022, liquidity, and variant coverage. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-csfloat-api.md))
- [cs2.sh vs Official BUFF API for CS2 Market Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-buff-api) - Compare BUFF's official current-price and trading API with cs2.sh intraday OHLC, multi-year archives, range history, and variant data. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-buff-api.md))
- [cs2.sh vs Official C5Game API for CS2 Market Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-c5game-api) - Compare C5Game's free official market and trading API with cs2.sh intraday OHLC, three-year archives, supply history, and variants. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-c5game-api.md))
- [cs2.sh vs Scraping Youpin for CS2 Data](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-youpin-scraping) - Compare owning a Youpin scraper with cs2.sh intraday prices, three-year archives, sale history, native phase bids, and variant coverage. ([Markdown](https://cs2.sh/resources/cs2sh-vs-youpin-scraping.md))