Sunday, August 11, 2013

Steam Trash Bot

Quick post today for a quick project. After getting sick of seeing 4 beta invites for a free-to-play game that was released a long time ago in my inventory I thought I'd make a Steam bot that would automatically accept trade requests so I could finally get rid of the crap in my inventory. I also figured that I might as well make it so anyone can take anything of use out of the bot's inventory, since after all one person's trash is another person's treasure. Thanks in large part to the amazing steam and steam-trade Node libraries, this ended up being really easy to do, and the code is a bit unspectacular. The one interesting challenge I had to solve was how to make it easy to request an item from the chat bot. After thinking for a while and looking at the available API, I decided that the best way was to have a user paste a link to the item into the trade window's chat area. This link contained all the information needed to find the item in the bot's inventory in an easily parseable format, so that worked quite well.

If you like the sound of this, check out the code on GitHub or the bot itself here!

2 comments:

  1. Im a noob, how do I run this? I created my customized secrets tried running it on command line or win host doesn't work

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    1. It's a Node.js app so you should look into how to set those up. The basic instructions are to install node, then go to the code folder and run "npm install" followed by "node bot.js".

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