Enhanced SteamGifts & SteamTrades (ESGST)

An extension / userscript that adds some cool features to SteamGifts and SteamTrades.

If you find any bugs or have any feature requests, please file an issue here.


Compatibility

Tested and confirmed as working:

  • Chrome (since v55)
  • Firefox (since v52)
  • Pale Moon

Not tested but should be working:

  • Any Chromium-based browser (such as Opera, Vivaldi, etc...)

Not supported:

  • Edge
  • Safari

Installation

There are two different ways to use ESGST: extension or userscript. You can choose which one you want to use, but the extension is a lot faster and has a better peformance than the userscript, so I recommend it, although there is no major difference between them, except for a few options that are only available in the extension because of limitations in the userscript.

Option 1 - Extension

It should be possible to install the extension in any Chromium-based browser from the Chrome store (such as Opera, Vivaldi, etc...), any Firefox-based browser from the Firefox store (such as Waterfox, etc...), and any browser that uses the Phoebus system from the Pale Moon store (such as Basilik, etc...).

You can also use the extension on Android through Firefox for Android, but some features might not work or not be optimized enough for mobile.

Option 2 - Userscript

To install the userscript, you must install Violentmonkey, Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or some other userscript manager first. Then click here and you should be prompted to install it. I recommend Violentmonkey or Tampermonkey, because the userscript uses the GM_addValueChangeListener API to communicate changes in the storage between tabs, and that API is not available on Greasemonkey, so a polyfill is used for Greasemonkey, which is not very effective and can affect the performance.

You can also use the userscript on Android through Firefox with Violentmonkey or USI, but some features might not work or not be optimized enough for mobile.


Beta Versions

The latest beta version for both the extension and the userscript is always available in the latest pre-release in the releases page.

7 years ago*

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The only differences stated there are:
The removal of the 30 day sync limit on some categories, it's unlikely to be changed as the restriction exists because of the requests limit implemented by cg on SG.
Allowing to not show giveaway descriptions, this has been discussed numerous times and will probably never be added.

Also it's called A-ESGST not ESGST+ 😅

1 year ago
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Discovered this awesome addon 2 weeks ago.
It's all great apart ONE thing.

When I enter a giveaway quickly from the mainpage, if the raffle has a description, a popup comes up.
It's annoying and despite looking through the settings, I couldn't find a way to turn that off.

Please help

1 year ago
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How to disable the popup when entering a giveaway with a description?
How to enable a window during synchronization that will show which games are being synchronized now? (numbers or names)

9 months ago
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From the feature's description:

Adds an element [Points] below a giveaway's start time (in any page) that shows how many points you would have to spend to win the giveaway.
The points are calculated by rounding up (using 2 decimals) the result of the following formula: number_of_points / number_of_copies * number_of_entries.

7 months ago
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So, I should turn two those options on?
"Cache repeated descriptions from the same creator for 1 hour and only show them once."
"Filter descriptions.

6 months ago
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Yes. 2nd one probably enables the "Add Description To Filters" button when there's a description (comment) popping up.
Not sure how many descriptions you can add though.
I have this, which might be the default:
.|(bestof|(g(ood)?)?)(l(uck)?)?(h(ave)?)?(f(un)?)?|enjoy|(h(umble)?)?(b(undle)?)?(g(ift)?)?(l(ink)?)?

6 months ago*
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You can check this repository, where @rafaelgomesxyz implements the scraping logic, the ESGST plugin will prioritize getting game information from ESGST server, before querying Steam directly.
https://github.com/rafaelgomesxyz/esgst-server

Please beware that ESGST checks if a game has Steam trading card or not based on its game tag, which is often incorrect, please see this discussion.
IMHO, a more accurate approach is parsing Steam protobuf, like SteamDB did.

Look at this game, it drops cards but doesn't have Steam trading cards tag.
Searching on Github for item_class, item_description, and item_name, you will find some useful resources.
For example, below link.
https://github.com/SteamDatabase/Protobufs/blob/master/webui/service_quest.proto

4 months ago
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  1. Option Trading cards turned to SHOW ONLY, but there are still games with no cards in list? Why?
    screenshot
  2. Can developer, please, make an option to turn off descriptions at all after entering giveaway?
3 months ago
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Is there an option to enter some "mask" to filter to hide ALL DESCRIPTION POP-UPS?

2 months ago
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For giveaway heading name, you can use this filter rule in uBlock Origin:
steamgifts.com##.giveaway__heading .giveaway__heading__name:style(font-size:16px !important;)

For navigation menu:

steamgifts.com##.nav__button:style(font-size:11px !important; line-height:29px !important;)
steamgifts.com##.nav__row__summary__name:style(font-size:11px !important; line-height:15px !important;)
steamgifts.com##.nav__row__summary__description:style(font-size:11px !important; line-height:13px !important;)
steamgifts.com##.nav__absolute-dropdown:style(width:275px !important;)

Since you're using mobile, how about the unofficial SG client?

3 weeks ago*
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