jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Do you mean that he has parental controls enabled? Or that he uses Steam Family Sharing?
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Official Idle Master Thread - Get your Steam Trading Cards the Easy Way
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Do you mean that he has parental controls enabled? Or that he uses Steam Family Sharing?
Valve hasn't banned anybody for appid idling so far, all this does is automate it for you, so unless their stance changes on card idling I don't see a problem.
I've never worked with Python OR Steam API (if this even is API) stuff before, but I figured what better way to learn than trying to add something to the program? I can't test this at work but playing around in the code I plunked out these two pieces, if anyone has any ideas as to whether it'd work or not. Basically you add 'exclude = "appid" to the settings file, each appid separated by a space, and it would check to see if the appid should be excluded while it's building the idle list.
This part is super simple, it's just after the steamLogin data check. Just to inform as to whether it's reading any exclusions or not.
This was the hard part. Moved around a little of the code in here to check and see if the appid is in the "exclude" list. If it isn't, it proceeds as usual. If it IS excluded, it just skips over that ID and onto the next one (I think). I can't test this for hours and have never compiled anything Python anyway so that's a whole other problem, but anyone is welcome to tinker with it if they're equally bored.
Again, total Python newb, apologies for my no doubt amateur display of snake-themed coding.
I've never worked with Python OR Steam API (if this even is API) stuff before, but I figured what better way to learn than trying to add something to the program? I can't test this at work but playing around in the code I plunked out these two pieces, if anyone has any ideas as to whether it'd work or not. Basically you add 'exclude = "appid" to the settings file, each appid separated by a space, and it would check to see if the appid should be excluded while it's building the idle list.
Code:
if not authData["exclude"]:
print "No games being excluded"
Code:
for badge in badgeSet:
try:
dropCount = badge.find_all("span",{"class": "progress_info_bold"})[0].contents[0]
if "No card drops" in dropCount:
continue
else:
# Remaining drops
excludeBadges = exclude.split()
linkGuess = badge.find_parent().find_parent().find_parent().find_all("a")[0]["href"]
junk, badgeId = linkGuess.split("/gamecards/",1)
badgeId = int(badgeId.replace("/",""))
if badgeId not in excludeBadges:
dropCountInt, junk = dropCount.split(" ",1)
dropCountInt = int(dropCountInt)
badgesLeft[badgeId] = dropCountInt
else:
continue
except:
continueThis was the hard part. Moved around a little of the code in here to check and see if the appid is in the "exclude" list. If it isn't, it proceeds as usual. If it IS excluded, it just skips over that ID and onto the next one (I think). I can't test this for hours and have never compiled anything Python anyway so that's a whole other problem, but anyone is welcome to tinker with it if they're equally bored.
Again, total Python newb, apologies for my no doubt amateur display of snake-themed coding.
Hey jshackles, I extended your code, mainly to practice my rusty Python skills.
So feel free to use the parts you like or just ignore it. :lol
You can view it here: http://pastebin.com/frm4EzH2
Changes I made:
steam_api.dll is now called directly in Python using ctypes, so Steamworks.Net, CSteamworks and the small C# program aren't needed anymore. start.py/start.exe, steam_api.dll and settings.txt will suffice.
I also added a simple blacklist. Write one appid per line in blacklist.txt and Idle Master will ignore the corresponding games.
Apart from that there are some minor changes. The console output now shows the time, when Idle Master stops sleeping and the function, that reads settings.txt is a bit more robust.
So feel free to use the parts you like or just ignore it. :lol
You can view it here: http://pastebin.com/frm4EzH2
Changes I made:
steam_api.dll is now called directly in Python using ctypes, so Steamworks.Net, CSteamworks and the small C# program aren't needed anymore. start.py/start.exe, steam_api.dll and settings.txt will suffice.
I also added a simple blacklist. Write one appid per line in blacklist.txt and Idle Master will ignore the corresponding games.
Apart from that there are some minor changes. The console output now shows the time, when Idle Master stops sleeping and the function, that reads settings.txt is a bit more robust.
blackMamba1187
Member
Two hours after setting it...
Awesome. Thanks guys.
Awesome. Thanks guys.
Armoured Priest
Member
In my experience, yes...both with IM and doing it the old fashioned way
Yea I actually had one drop remaining after clearing most of single player stuff out
Edit:
Totally shown up in the next post, dang
he said he enabled Family View in his account , but the program was not running ( open and close fast )
so he disabled Family View , then he was able to run the program
edit : oh, i think its the same thing
yes,he was enabling parental controls and family share
count me in! such info would be useful
Willy Wanka
my god this avatar owns
Money for nothing. Thank you.
Sir Blaming
Member
yeah I am also having the same problem.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Awesome, I'll look this over. Thanks!
freshVeggie
Member
Heads up. Maybe other people had the same problem.
Logged in steamcommuntiy on browser and have Steam client running and logged in as well.
This is my settings.txt
Didn't work until I realized that after copying/pasting steamLogin into quotation marks the later mark slipped into new line. Constantly got error loading config file message.
After putting the last quotation mark up a line, it started beautifully.
29 games to idle. It's something.
Thanks jshackles! You are doing a mighty fine job here!
Logged in steamcommuntiy on browser and have Steam client running and logged in as well.
This is my settings.txt
Code:
myProfileURL="http://steamcommunity.com/id/freshVeggie"
sessionid = "stuff"
steamLogin = "long stuff
"After putting the last quotation mark up a line, it started beautifully.
29 games to idle. It's something.
Thanks jshackles! You are doing a mighty fine job here!
Seraph_Nicholas
Member
My initial thought was "Is this worth it? I don't even care about cards... But hell, another dollar is another dollar, might as well mine 'em and pawn 'em."
Then I finally got it set up and started up, and see '34 games remaining'.
This is how bad things start.
Re: opting-in for data collection, I usually don't allow such functions, but only because I've never had a developer say clearly and directly what they were gonna do with it, like you just did.
Then I finally got it set up and started up, and see '34 games remaining'.
This is how bad things start.
Re: opting-in for data collection, I usually don't allow such functions, but only because I've never had a developer say clearly and directly what they were gonna do with it, like you just did.
To answer my own question, no it appears not to work on 32-bit Windows. Working ok now on Windows 7 64-bit. I don't remember needing to install any additional versions of .NET ( I think I have 3.5 and 4 on here).
My browser, Firefox, also had 2 pipe characters (0x7c) in the cookie content field (for steamLogin) so I manually edited those back to the pipe "|".
Appears to be working now.. fingers crossed.
freshVeggie
Member
Does the Sleeping for 15 minutes mean, IM will check if there are remaining drops after 15mins?
Can this time be set manually?
Can this time be set manually?
That is what it means, yep. No current way to set it manually unless you just change the code and recompile
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I'm worried about letting people set their own frequency, since it could potentially lead to a much larger load on Valve's servers if everyone set it to every 10 seconds or something crazy.
After it detects that there is only a single drop remaining, it'll start checking every 5 minutes. So after your last card drops, the most amount of time you'll be idling a game needlessly is 5 minutes.
chixdiggit
Member
Still a no go. One thing I noticed going from one PC to the next is that my Session ID is different. Is that normal? I tried swapping them around but just got the same result.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Alright, I think I have the issue figured out but it'll be later today before I can make a fix for it. Basically when the program is looking at their badges page it's getting the page that says "Please enter your PIN number".
freshVeggie
Member
Aha, that was exactly what I was concerned. Waiting needlessly when no drops remained.
Five minutes is fair. It's not like I am on Wall Street, brokering with milliseconds, ha.
It's also nice to see that there is no CPU load while idling.
chixdiggit
Member
Holy crap I finally figured it out! I turned off User control and it works fine.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Yeah, I'm working on a change this very moment where you won't have to enter the profile URL at all, it'll get the data it needs completely from the cookie information. Should be up in a few minutes.
EDIT: should be working now with the latest start.exe
Good to hear! Others have mentioned launching start.exe as an Administrator being a fix. I'm not sure why that's needed but I'll look into it.
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Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
all right! let's do this! 79 games to idle!
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Yes it should show that you're in game. Something definitely went wrong. It sounds like the steam-idle.exe process didn't kick off correctly.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
The issue with Steam Family View has been fixed. If you have Family View enabled, be sure to grab the latest version (and follow the instructions in the setup directions.pdf file).
I had tossed around this sort of an idea as a side project in my head for quite some time. As usual, I never got around to it. You did a great job. The least I can do is take a stab at porting things over to my preferred platforms (both *nix & OSX) this weekend. I'll take a look.
As electroflame already said, Mono would be the easy solution here. I might be arsed to port more natively though, because I'm weird and think that's a fun exercise. We'll see. I'll probably be in touch either way.
chixdiggit
Member
Made a video tutorial for anybody that needs detailed step by step directions (hope that's ok). Might be helpful if you are second guessing something.
http://youtu.be/WC1S5dgyTdw
http://youtu.be/WC1S5dgyTdw
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Awesome, thanks. Let me know if you have any questions or need further clarification on anything.
Additionally - I just "released" version 0.3 which has the oft-requested "blacklist" feature. You can blacklist a game by opening blacklist.txt and adding appIDs (one per line) to the file. When Idle Master is determining which games it needs to Idle, it will skip any game if it's found on the blacklist.
As always, let me know if anyone has any trouble with this feature.
steelersrock01
Neo Member
Does playing a game that doesn't have cards while using idle master cause the drop rate to plummet like it does when manually idling multiple games with cards? It's awesome btw, working flawlessly for me.
You don't need Mono. You just need a small program or process written in any language that sets the environment variable "SteamAppId" to an appid and calls SteamAPI_Init() in the steam_api library. Based on an older version of Idle Master I did that in Python itself, so most of the work for an port should be done.
Take a look at the code: http://pastebin.com/frm4EzH2 Probably you only need to edit the lines 60 and 69.
Awesome, thanks. Let me know if you have any questions or need further clarification on anything.
Additionally - I just "released" version 0.3 which has the oft-requested "blacklist" feature. You can blacklist a game by opening blacklist.txt and adding appIDs (one per line) to the file. When Idle Master is determining which games it needs to Idle, it will skip any game if it's found on the blacklist.
As always, let me know if anyone has any trouble with this feature.
updated to it - even when i'm not having major issues
let us know when we can opt-in for that statistics gathering
i have like
782 card drops remaining
221 games with drops remaining
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Well done! I put that in the OP, if that's alright.
Yeah, playing any other game while Idle master is running will lower your drop rate considerably.
chixdiggit
Member
Thanks! Of course it's all right.
Quick glance over, and yeah that makes a ton of sense. I'm out of town for work, but I fly back tonight. I'll take a look this weekend, like I said. If it's that easy, I'll submit a PR or two to jshackles' github repo, and we can go from there.
steelersrock01
Neo Member
Aww. Thanks. Can't have your cake and eat it too I guess. GOG games it is.
Idle Master has been working great all day, but now starting to act weird, skipping games after only dropping one card, etc... But I'm at work and the fact it ran almost 12 hours without issue is amazing. Such a great app.
I wonder if the influx of new cards and badges will affect the market. If Idle Master ever works for Russian Steam I'd bet it would .
I wonder if the influx of new cards and badges will affect the market. If Idle Master ever works for Russian Steam I'd bet it would .