I see this error a few times per day lately, it is because the inventory size or steam servers are acting up? Does anyone else has experienced this lately?

Edit: clicking Try Again over and over again will slowly load the inventory, so you might want to try that


I found a fix and I'm working on implementing an easy way to apply it.
Current way to do this is to override a script and force the request to be made with 2000 items instead of 5000.


Inventory Fix

  1. Install Tamper Monkey or the uncivilized one
  2. Install the script https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/538764-steam-inventory-fix
  3. Test

This will work only in the browser, but you can try overrides in steam on your own risk https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2206795707

2 days ago*

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happens to me to, I suspect its inventory size

2 days ago
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Oh yeah, it happens quite often. I also suspect inventory size as my non-trading friends (with a much smaller inventory) don't have this issue at all.

2 days ago
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I have almost nothing in my inventory and just go there once in a while to list a few cards for sale when they drop from games I play. I have seen it a bunch of times in the past and I usually just refresh the page a couple times and it shows up. I don't know if this is the same issue, but it is not inventory size related for me.

2 days ago
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thanks for the input, i tried clicking Try Again button multiple times and it loads the inventory one request at the time, keep spamming it

2 days ago
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Been happening to me for a week now. I contributed my displeasure to a forum discussion post recently. Apparently Steam support are aware of the issue, not sure if they are doing anything. One sufferer stated that rebooting steam fixed his problem. Not sure what he means by rebooting. If it means deleting steam and then redownloading it then I don't want to do that at this stage.
A steam friend gave me the tip on being able to check other's inventories works if you initiate a trade. Seems the advanced filter will work in a trade window.

1 day ago
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the issue happens in browser too, so reinstalling steam is not a valid option

1 day ago
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A relief for me. From other comments I get the impression we need to wait for Steam employees to find a fix.

1 day ago
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Rebooting probably means closing Steam and reopening it. Uninstalling and reinstalling would be overkill and probably wouldn't fix the problem anyway if closing and reopening Steam doesn't fix it.

It kind of sounds like it could be a problem with Steam's servers too, which isn't something anyone but Steam could do anything about.

1 day ago
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I close steam down everynight and that has not fixed this issue for me. Sounds like we need to wait for Steam to fix this.

1 day ago
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over a week for me too

1 day ago
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This is a weird one and not universal. My inventory is opening like normal. IDK if it matters, but I shut down my PC every night. :)

I have Win 11, all drivers updated, etc...

1 day ago
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I get that as well when I use the search bar and there's nothing in my inventory spelled that way. Maybe this is the new prompt that comes up for it, it's only been doing this for about a week and half for me.

1 day ago
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the cause is by some server side issue that prevents the response from being sent (json response with inventory items)
in your case the whole inventory is loaded if an item does not exist, so inevitably your response will get a big fat null cause the code that request the items asks for 5000, not 2000 (new limit)

a quick fix is clicking try again until the inventory is loaded, the filters will not load

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Haven't had my steam inventory load properly since sometime in early May. Game-specific inventories still load fine, but it just gives up with my steam inventory most of the time not loading anything at all. Even the "show advanced filters" option no longer works, clicking it just times out and shows a blank space both in chrome and in the Steam client itself.

I hope Valve is fixing this otherwise the summer sale is going to become a nightmare to deal with... been trying to clear out a decade of non-marketable card accumulation on Steamlvlup every few weeks but this is making it nigh impossible.

1 day ago
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while the filters can't be loaded, spamming try again will eventually load the inventory

1 day ago
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quick fix added

1 day ago
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Used to happen to me like a week ago, but it's fixed itself now.

23 hours ago
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i doubt you can click on Show advanced filters... and you wont get any errors

16 hours ago
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Oh is that what you meant? Yeah it's happening then, I didn't use that feature enough to notice xD because my inventory never works as expected anyways. I already have so many bugs that it looks like another normal day on steam. Until recently I couldn't access my trade history at all and steam support legit gave up and said they don't know either, sorry. They had me questioning elite software engineers. It fixed itself after I did another 200 small trades or so to finally push the big batches through onto page 2 of my history which likely was similar to this issue as it was trying to load a page with like 50k items in it and it would crash the page straight up. Nice fix tho.

PS: Just checked, I still can't load the 4th page in my trade history, insta crashes to "This page isn’t working steamcommunity.com is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500". I'm back to questioning elite software engineers. :(

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happened to me, some trade got malformed data or something

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