WARNING

This IS heavily work-in-progress. Chances are there's nothing to see for you here.

GOALS

This project, more or less, started with me having some gripes with a much more famous idling bot based on SteamKit, so I figured I'd just make my own.

Currently, the main goals are to make a framework to "deal with Steam" in various way, particularly stuff that I want to automate for myself. Currently, higher level features include (this list might not be up to date):

• card farming
• stream "viewing" (to get drops; but it doesn't stop automatically)
• sale queues
• daily sale stickers
• trading the entire (tradable) inventory to another account
• accepting trades
• listing owned games
• listing inventory

There's low level stuff, of course:

• making and using a client connection (i.e. protobufs)
• logins
• making authenticated https queries

so in theory you can make your own features if you wanted to.

This is a one-man spare-time project, so progress is slow and mostly based on what I want to do.

Note that a bot is in a separate repository: https://github.com/Christian-Stieber/Christians-Steam-Bot

PLATFORMS

If, for whatever reaason, you are stupid enough to want to try this: while the code is meant to be portable, there are a couple of platform-specific items such as getting information about the current machine. Code might not exist yet for all platforms, and if it does exist then it certainly hasn't been tested.

Linux

Currently, I'm developing this on a Debian Linux box.

This list of required packages might be incomplete:

• g++ (at least version 12)
• libboost-all-dev (at least 1.81)
• cmake
• libprotobuf-dev
• protobuf-compiler
• libssl-dev
• libsystemd-dev
• libzstd-dev
• libbz2-dev
• liblzma-dev

Windows

Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition should be able to build things out of the box.

Building

I'm not actively supporting standalone builds of just the framework; please refer to Christians-Steam-Bot.

DATA FILES

The bot stores data in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Christian-Stieber\Steam-framework or ~/.Christians-Steam-Framework. For now, these are unencrypted, but I'll change that eventually.

You'll find a logfile there as well -- but I'm not sure whether it's properly flushed on Windows.

3RD PARTY CODE

In addition to libraries that are used through packages, the framework includes some other 3rd party code in its source tree:

• https://github.com/steamdatabase/protobufs.git
  Was added as a submodule
• https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum
  Code has been copied into my source tree.
  See Headers/External/MagicEnum.
• https://github.com/boostorg/fiber/tree/develop/examples/asio
  Boost fiber has no official asio support (or asio has no fiber support, whatever you prefer).
  Thus, I've copied the asio code from the fiber documentation and adapted it a bit to make it work.
  See Headers/boost.

INSPIRATIONS

"Inspirations" on how the Steam stuff works was taken from
https://github.com/SteamRE/SteamKit
https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm

SteamKit in particular has also provided me with lists of enum values to copy-paste.