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Steam Client

Steam Store SteamCMD

Accessing the Console

• Use the following URIs on a browser or a file manager to open GUI client with the console:
  • steam://nav/console
  • steam://open/console
    • will not work if the Steam client is running in the background
• The -console flag can be used with the client executable
• Alternatively, SteamCMD, a command-line only version of the Steam client, can be used
  • Windows Binary
  • Linux Binary
  • macOS Binary

Downloading Older Depots

Download a single depot (used to download older versions of applications/games):

download_depot <appid> <depotid> [<target manifestid>] [<delta manifestid>] [<depot flags filter>]

SteamDB can be used to find the required argument values.

Resources

• Steam Web API Documentation
• Steamworks Documentation
• Valve Developer Wiki

Third-party Resources

• SteamDB
  • tracks depot changes, price history, everything steam
• SteamGifts
  • giveaway Steam keys or take part in giveaways
• SteamTradeMatcher
  • one-to-one trading of items on Steam
• ArchiSteamFarm
  • useful bot written in C# to farm trading cards for owned games that can be sold
• IsThereAnyDeal
  • tracks game deals for steam, steam key stores and other platforms
  • somewhat broken although it is being migrated and modernized, see New ITAD
• gg.deals
  • newer than and similar to IsThereAnyDeal with modern UI
• SteamGridDB
  • custom video game assets for games available and not available on steam