Hello!

Today I'm here to introduce you to one of my new project: "Games List To Steam".

Presentation

The goal here is to make your trades easier. When someone send you a list of games he want to trade, it can be boring to have to lookup on Steam every games one by one to find the right for you.

That's why I developed GLTS: you paste a list of games and the website will search for you all the revelant informations like:

  • Lowest / current price
  • Number of times it was bundled
  • Cards
  • Ratings
  • Description
  • Steam link
  • Picture of the game

Instructions

Games list for testing purpose

Shoppe Keep
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Drunken Robot Pornography
GASP
Train Simulator

Current limitations

  • If you search a game with the name "The Witcher 3" it won't find anything because the name has to be complete like "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt".
  • The search can be pretty long and it depends on the Steam servers a lot so the ETA is not much precise at this time.
  • If you are looking for too much games like ~200+ the website might return nothing to you because the script will return a timeout (5mins).

I made a pool to know your opinions. I'm open to any suggestions to make the project better so feel free to criticize!

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What do you think of this project?

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Change log

6 years ago*
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1.10

  • Now also show the lowest price of every games and how many times it was bundled
6 years ago*
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1.11

  • You can now choose to get the lowest price / bundle infos or not. (it can make the search faster to disable it)
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1.12

  • You can now click on the lowest price / bundle infos to open the ITAD infos in a new tab.
6 years ago
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So now this work only with "Games list for testing purpose"?

6 years ago
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No, it works with any games it's just here if you want to try without looking for a list

6 years ago
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delisted games, why 3,74? 😮

View attached image.
6 years ago
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Hmmm interesting, I'll try to fix that thanks for the report!

6 years ago
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also about trading cards, if its delisted game your site shows incorrect info, for example
Superfrog HD has cards

6 years ago
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Ok, I've edited a few things, now when you are looking for games like "Dirt 3" it return you the price "Delisted" and a different description explaining that the game has been deleted. Regarding the cards I place a question mark when the script can't get the information about it (because if it's deleted from steam I can't get the cards info on it).

But I think that I should be able to get the infos about cards on SCE, will be working on it soon thanks!

6 years ago
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The site is relatively slow and doesn't work with 18+ games. More important, the price on the steam page isn't a good indicator for the value of the game (bundles, resellers, stuff like kinguin).

6 years ago
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Hmmm that's weird, I tried it multiple times with 100 games and it worked (it was just pretty long), the website is taking the informations directly on the steam API / website so I can't really do anything about that :/.

Otherwise I already though about implementing Kinguin so I'll have to think about how to do it thanks for the suggestion! :)

6 years ago
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The Elder Scrolls® Online: Tamriel Unlimited™

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The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited

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Tamriel Unlimited

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The Elder Scrolls Online

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doesn't seem to work no matter how i search for it.

6 years ago
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"The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited" worked for me but yes there is a problem when you put symbols like trademark and all, I think that I should remove them directly when processing in the script so that you won't have to search multiple times a game.

At this time it's true that it can be a problem, the thing is that I'm using the Steam API games list to check if the game you searched is in their list, and at the moment I did not found any other ways but to use the exact name of a game otherwise there will be duplicates or games with similar name but not the one that you was looking for soo... I'll have to search another way to improve it

6 years ago
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ahh okay, yeah now it is working for me there also. i must of left an extra space in there when i removed a symbol. sounds great though on the future plans, good luck figuring out a way to do it without the dupes too. =)

6 years ago
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it doesn't seem to like "®" &/or "™" in the title. it works fine for "The Elder Scrolls Online - Morrowind", but not "The Elder Scrolls® Online: Tamriel Unlimited™"

6 years ago
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Yep that's right. I'll work on that right now, it shouldn't be that long to fix

6 years ago
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sounds good =)
thanks

6 years ago
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Ok that's fixed! Now when I'm looking for "The Elder Scrolls® Online: Tamriel Unlimited™" it returns me a result, can you confirm me that? :D

6 years ago
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yes, now it works. thanks for the awesome site. ^^

6 years ago
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Thanks for helping me making it better :D, it's in a very "early" state so you know... far from being perfect aha

6 years ago
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Hmm...I like the idea :)
Maybe it's usefull to also include informations about the historical lowest price, the lowest price at the moment and if this games is bundled right now or was peviously bundled? Just an idea ;)

6 years ago
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Hmm I havn't though about the bundled thing, I take note thanks! :D
For the lowest price I mainly use "isthereanydeal" but I still havn't found a way to use their data. Do you know other websites like that one? So that I could check if I could use their informations

6 years ago
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Sorry, I don't know any other site either. But maybe you can ask the guy(s) from isthereanydeal.com if you are allowed to use their data (and how to do so). I mean, as far as I know they're getting a little money when referring to the shops, so why should they say no? :)

6 years ago
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Well yes, I think that I will contact them to see if they can provide me some instructions to use legally their content, thanks for the advice :D

6 years ago
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Update: the website now supports lowest price & number of times a game was bundled in history. It makes the search slower so instead of enabling this option by default, I added a checkbox.

From the test that I made:

  • Without option = ~0.85s per game
  • With option = ~1.17s per game
6 years ago
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Nice ^^
Good choice, to add the checkbox :)

6 years ago
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Thanks!

I tried to make the website faster by using different ways but sadly I havn't found a faster way (it's how it's supposed to be done according to the IsThereAnyDeal API doc) sooo... I'll try to see if I can reduces for a few seconds the steam API lookup

6 years ago
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Little update :

  • Fixed bugs that occure with specific searches
  • Updated links and some little CSS modifications
    -Updated l'ETA
  • Under the hood optimisation
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