Steam Queue Bot

A work in progress python script that can be used with github actions to automatically clear your steam queue, so that you can get your free trading cards during a sale event.

Status

I'm still in the process of testing this script and I'm not even sure if its working at all yet because I keep accidentally clearing my queue :(

On top of that I don't know how robust the method of using steam cookies for authentication is. According to https://dev.doctormckay.com/topic/365-cookies/ cookies can expire for many reasons. But my hope is that they will be able to last for the short time steam sales last. So a possibility is the script might end up working - but only for a day.

Right now i'm just parsing the entire cookie string stored on the steam page so that the script doesn't need to be updated when cookie names change. So the STEAM_COOKIE secret needs to be a plain cookie string like "cookie1=value1; cookie2=value2; cookie3=value3;". I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it works for now.

Dependencies

Python 3.11

Instructions

1. Go to https://store.steampowered.com/ in your browser and log in to steam
2. Press F-12 to open up the developer tools of your browser
3. Either copy the entire cookie string from a request header to store.steampowered.com/explore (like from the network tab) or use this chrome extension to do it (set the export type to key=value)

You can now either run the script locally or as a github action.

Github Actions:

The script comes with a github action that is scheduled to run once a day automatically, or manually via workflow runs. To set this up you need to:

• Fork this repo
• Create a secret called STEAM_COOKIE and paste the value of the cookie you copied earlier into it
• The script should now automatically run once a day, be sure to disable the action when the sale is over
• ??? Profit

Locally:

• export an env variable called STEAM_COOKIE with the value of the cookie you copied earlier
• run python queue-bot.py

GH cli: Oh and you could also use the GH cli to set the secret instead. And run it manually if you want

• Set cookie
  • gh secret set STEAM_COOKIE -b "<paste your cookie here>"
  • gh secret set STEAM_COOKIE -b "$(pbpaste)" (mac)(paste this command first lol)
• Run workflow manually
  • gh workflow run queue-bot.yml

TODO

• Is there a way i could get this to disable automatically when the sale is over?