I'm looking for a script (or anything really) that will automatically add games in my Steam Library to my Steam Follow list. The aim is to get updates for these game in my Activity feed.

I've played around with Enhanced Steam but it doesn't appear to be able to do this. I also stumbled upon this Reddit thread discussing the same thing, but it's doesn't look like anything came of it.

Does anyone know if this can be done programmatically because doing it manually sucks.

EDIT: User raing3 in this reddit thread linked me to a script he wrote that does exactly what I needed.

Here's a direct link to the script on github if anyone else is interested: https://github.com/raing3/Steam_Scripts/blob/master/SteamGameFollower.js

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Wouldn't that cause dozens or even hundreds of updates per day? o.O

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No, only a few games post updates on any given day.

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you can use this page http://store.steampowered.com/updated/myapps/

well maybe it's not what you're looking for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Thanks but no, that's a list of games who's files have been updated. The Activity feed is basically an RSS feed that text updates are pushed to for games you follow. That link doesn't show this.

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Well yes, I could learn a scripting language to write my own script. But as a non-programmer, something tells me this won't be easier or less time consuming than adding them manually. And while it would be a nice skill to have, it's not going to help me with my immediate problem.

Out of interest, can you recommend any resources for a complete beginner to learn scripting?

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Thanks!

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Thanks.

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If the updates are announced in the Announcements you can subscribe to the Announcements rss feeds

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Following a game through it's Steam Store page and subscribing to it's announcements RSS feed are exactly the same thing. The only difference is followed games' announcements show up in the Steam Activity feed, whereas the latter show up in your RSS reader. I would like them in my Activity feed.

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Although this is no help to you, I'd like to say thanks for pointing out that games have RSS feeds. I did not know that. It's much more convenient for me to get all the updates in my favorite RSS aggregator, as opposed to Steam (i.e. the opposite of what you want. :-)) I use the "followed" feature almost exclusively to track unreleased/early access stuff getting released, and I'm not interested in updates for the games I own at all.

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A happy little accident, I'm glad it could help. :)

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Did you write this? It looks like it was only created a few hours ago. If so, thank you very much!

I was given a script that did this over at Reddit this morning that I linked to in my opening post, can you say how this differs from that one (other than that it has the ability to follow wishlist games as well)?

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Yes, I wrote this today, and it was before I saw you have already found script. My version only works with your owned games, but it's not hard to implement also for wishlisted games. I only see differnt approach in process to collecting user data, where my approach depends on exact page, but it gives opportunity to see title of an app that being followed.

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Well thanks again for creating this! I'll give it a try next time I need to follow some games.

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