A script that takes the game you're playing on steam and displays it on discord
License: MIT License
I tend to go by Twig or Temmie - I'm a norwegian highschool student, and a developer in my free time. I create games, discord bots, websites, and other nifty scripts; i have a tendency to play bad apple on anything i can get my hands on, ranging from minecraft to a lego EV microcontroller
I have a secondary github page for anything i don't want to clutter my main profile with, you might find something nifty on it!
Hi, thank you so much for your work on this, it's really cool.
I am not sure if this is an issue with the code, my Steam/Discord or something unique to Paradox games where the rich presence can vary wildly, but it's not showing up for me. I can supply you with more detailed info, but this is what it looks like:
I did read your issue from March where you were trying to figure this out. I assume that maybe Paradox games, with their many countries and variables such as the year the game is at, might not work the same way. However, something like Baldur's Gate 3, which only has about 4-5 different presence descriptions, also doesn't work. The review and store button do work though (cool features too).
This is what my config file looks like, with the personal stuff removed:
{
"STEAM_API_KEY": "key",
"USER_IDS": "id",
"DISCORD_APPLICATION_ID": "id",
"FETCH_STEAM_RICH_PRESENCE": true,
"FETCH_STEAM_REVIEWS": false,
"ADD_STEAM_STORE_BUTTON": false,
"WEB_SCRAPE": false,
"COVER_ART": {
"STEAM_GRID_DB": {
"ENABLED": true,
"STEAM_GRID_API_KEY": "key"
},
"USE_STEAM_STORE_FALLBACK": true
},
"LOCAL_GAMES": {
"ENABLED": false,
"LOCAL_DISCORD_APPLICATION_ID": "",
"GAMES": [
"processName1",
"processName2",
"processName3",
"so on"
]
},
"GAME_OVERWRITE": {
"ENABLED": false,
"NAME": "Breath of the wild, now on Steam!",
"SECONDS_SINCE_START": 0
},
"CUSTOM_ICON": {
"ENABLED": false,
"URL": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JustTemmie/steam-presence/main/readmeimages/defaulticon.png",
"TEXT": "Steam Presence on Discord"
}
}
And here is the log:
[Nov 22 2023 - 21:20:51] found game Stellaris played by -
[Nov 22 2023 - 21:20:52] steam app ID 281990 found for Stellaris
[Nov 22 2023 - 21:20:52] game changed, updating to 'Stellaris'
[Nov 22 2023 - 21:20:52] fetching the Discord game ID for Stellaris
[Nov 22 2023 - 21:20:53] found the discord game ID for stellaris
[Nov 22 2023 - 21:20:53] fetching icon for Stellaris
[Nov 22 2023 - 21:20:53] found icon for Stellaris in cache
[Nov 22 2023 - 21:20:53] creating new rich presence object for Stellaris
[Nov 22 2023 - 21:20:53] pushing presence to Discord
I noticed that it doesn't log the
log(f"setting the details for {gameName} to {gameRichPresence}")
under the setPresenceDetails() function so I'm assuming it satisfying the if check there for some reason?
I can confirm that neither Discord nor Steam are running as admin. I'm not sure if anything obvious is wrong but I will keep trying. Otherwise, would love your help on this. Once again, thanks for the cool script! Awesome work. Sorry if there is an obvious answer or solution to this somewhere and I missed it.
When I try to run main.py, it says:
Forbidden, Access to the steam API has been denied, please verify your steam API key
I tried resetting my API key a couple times, and I tried using the domains localhost and 127.0.0.1.
I am not sure what to make of this error, as I have used my API key in the past for Steam Idler, and it worked successfully.
As for installer.sh, when I try to run it, it says:
Error: config.json file not found. Please make sure it exists in the current directory
This is simply not the case, because I set up the config.json file in the directory in my Home/steam-presence directory.
I was not sure if this was because I have VSCodium open, but closing Codium still yields the same results.
Thank you in advance for any support you can provide!
solved, thanks.
Trying to get this to work on my arch linux system. Any idea?
Testing if the script works
[Aug 23 2023 - 09:51:25] loading config file
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/phantom/steam-presence/./main.py", line 1058, in
main()
File "/home/phantom/steam-presence/./main.py", line 869, in main
config = getConfigFile()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/phantom/steam-presence/./main.py", line 138, in getConfigFile
userSettings = json.load(f)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/init.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/init.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting ':' delimiter: line 5 column 6 (char 141)
Here is my config file:
After i run the installer file in the terminal i get these errors when testing if the script works
ERROR: [Sep 29 2023 - 16:37:11] error encountered whilst trying to update the config-version to version 1, exiting
Error encountered: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/alex_rainbowman/steam-presence/icons.txt'
/home/alex_rainbowman/steam-presence/installer.sh: line 48: kill: (10908) - No such process
Test might've worked, did it spit out any errors?
Commands executed.
Setting up service file for Linux
sed: can't read /home/alex_rainbowman/steam-presence.service: No such file or directory
Starting service
Failed to enable unit: Unit file /home/alex_rainbowman/.config/systemd/user/steam-presence.service is masked.
Any idea what is happening? (I'm kinda new to Linux)
Your code references path to /icons.txt but the file itself is in data/icons.txt. The scripts throws an error because of it.
Certain games on steam support "enhanced rich presence" I.E the same thing discord rich presence does, but thru steam
example:
steam's own documentation:
enhanced rich presence
It would be great to be able to detect this as it could be directly forwarded into the discord rich presence, but...
I've spent an unbelievable amount of time trying to find a way to fetch this information, as it's not actually returned by the steam API in any capacity.
The only possible way i can think of making this supported is by getting the user's login token, meaning having the user either writing in their account name, password, and the 2FA seed, or by having the user download the cookies from steam in their browser. then using web scraping to load the chat tab, then scraping the data from there. This is very scuffed and i really don't want to implement it in this way.
If you know any other way of getting this data, please create a comment informing me how so i can add this as a feature
When I try to launch Main.py through the terminal (Python3 main.py), I get the following error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kiki/steam-presence/main.py", line 1147, in
main()
File "/home/kiki/steam-presence/main.py", line 920, in main
checkForUpdate()
File "/home/kiki/steam-presence/main.py", line 902, in checkForUpdate
if int(new) > int(old):
^^^^^^^^
I have tried to delete and git clone the folder to maybe fix it, but it ended not working
Hey,
in the file installer.sh I had problems, because in line 65 the command is python3.10 -m venv .
This created errors on my machine as I have Python 3.11.3 installe, so python3.10 isn't working.
Changing the line to python3 -m venv . solved the problem and should be future proof (as long as 3 is the main version).
when running the installer.sh it will spit out that opensuse isnt supported even tho its linux
no other errors appear
This script is for Linux and macOS, and it's still in testing phases. If you encounter any bugs, please open an issue.
Press the enter key to continue...
Setting up virtual environment
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘venv’: File exists
Requirement already satisfied: pip in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (23.3.1)
Requirement already satisfied: wheel in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (0.42.0)
Requirement already satisfied: python-steamgriddb in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from -r ../requirements.txt (line 1)) (1.0.5)
Requirement already satisfied: pypresence in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from -r ../requirements.txt (line 2)) (4.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: beautifulsoup4 in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from -r ../requirements.txt (line 3)) (4.12.2)
Requirement already satisfied: requests in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from -r ../requirements.txt (line 4)) (2.31.0)
Requirement already satisfied: psutil in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from -r ../requirements.txt (line 5)) (5.9.6)
Requirement already satisfied: soupsieve>1.2 in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from beautifulsoup4->-r ../requirements.txt (line 3)) (2.5)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer<4,>=2 in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from requests->-r ../requirements.txt (line 4)) (3.3.2)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from requests->-r ../requirements.txt (line 4)) (3.6)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<3,>=1.21.1 in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from requests->-r ../requirements.txt (line 4)) (2.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in ./lib64/python3.11/site-packages (from requests->-r ../requirements.txt (line 4)) (2023.11.17)
Testing if the script works
[Dec 02 2023 - 22:52:42] found game NARAKA: BLADEPOINT played by Pollux
Test might've worked, did it spit out any errors?
Commands executed.
Unsupported OS. This script is designed for Linux and macOS only.
Am I suppose to install on both my steam deck and my PC windows? Because I currently have it on the steam deck and whenever I try to load the /bin/python and /main.py it says "everything is ready" except it denies my steam API although its correct.
Hey, this would be a really useful feature for me as I have multiple Steam accounts and I sometimes switch between them.
The endpoint http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/GetPlayerSummaries/v0002/ mentions support for this:
steamids
A comma-separated list of 64 bit IDs to retrieve profiles for.
I did a normal install and followed all steps correctly, but it doesn't seem to show additional data from games that support it. I tested on ULTRAKILL and Bloons TD6, both of which behaved like other games and not like in screenshots. Code is unmodified (aside from a simple string change I did but that shouldn't affect anything) and the config looks totally fine.
I've noticed that with some games the title of the rich presence is the actual name of the game I'm playing, and for others it just says 'a game on steam' and shows the name in the description. Is there a way to set the title to always be the game name?
(also i just wanted to thank you for making this, my games not appearing properly has been unreasonably bugging me for quite a while now)
NON_STEAM_GAMES
I actually used this feature, and the cookies expiring wasn't a problem - I could always fire up Firefox again and quickly re-export them.
Latest Version 1.10.2 breaks with a list index out of range error when playing non steam games
Im little confused, what library are you using to get author's name to put it on the cover image text? I wanted to change it to game's name but can't find the source. Thanks
Testing if the script works
[Apr 16 2024 - 17:55:28] couldn't find the the meta file, creating new one
[Apr 16 2024 - 17:55:28] updating meta.json's structure-version to
1
[Apr 16 2024 - 17:55:28] importing libraries for meta update
[Apr 16 2024 - 17:55:28] creating /home/user1/Documents/scripts/steam-presence/./data/
[Apr 16 2024 - 17:55:28] moving /home/user1/Documents/scripts/steam-presence/./icons.txt
[Apr 16 2024 - 17:55:28] moving /home/user1/Documents/scripts/steam-presence/./games.txt
[Apr 16 2024 - 17:55:28] moving /home/user1/Documents/scripts/steam-presence/./customGameIDs.json
[Apr 16 2024 - 17:55:28] moving /home/user1/Documents/scripts/steam-presence/./meta.json[Apr 16 2024 - 17:55:28] loading config file
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user1/Documents/scripts/steam-presence/./main.py", line 1168, in
main()
File "/home/user1/Documents/scripts/steam-presence/./main.py", line 977, in main
config = getConfigFile()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/user1/Documents/scripts/steam-presence/./main.py", line 162, in getConfigFile
userSettings = json.load(f)
^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/init.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/init.py", line 346, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/json/decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 5 column 1 (char 97)
./installer.sh: line 48: kill: (31841) - No such process
Test might've worked, did it spit out any errors?
Commands executed.
Setting up service file for Linux
Starting service
If you encountered any errors with this script, please create an issue on the GitHub pageScript completed.
Any help is appreciated!
As explained in the title, please add texts in README if the script required you to have verified account to get API key and Online status to allow the script to get your currently playing game.
This is because steam by default restrict web api portal to be accessed by unverified account.
Apon running any non steam game the presense manager will not detect its use, even if it is ran through steam, and appears on the steam user profile.
Hi, I really like this service you put together. I was initially tempted to fork it and make my own modifications for my own needs, but wanted to check if you were interested in me adding the following features:
Each of these bullet points could be a separate PR to this repo
In the old version (which was great, it's the only thing of it's kind that worked for me!), I didn't manage to get this working.
In the new version (which is even greater! thanks a lot for your work!) I'm even more confused on how the CUSTOM_GAME_OVERWRITE section is supposed to work. I'm not sure if I understood that correctly, how am I supposed to get a custom "game" (code-oss) or any process at all to show up with a name-icon pair (VSCode and ideally the image found here)?
Again, thanks A LOT for your efforts on this process!
Also, I would suggest recreating an install.sh script that installs the systemd service, since that would make everything much easier and automatically set the correct file paths. I can write this if you'd like it :)
In the README it says:
in addition to this, there's the Steam Deck, a handheld linux game "console".
having discord constantly run in the background is a terrible idea considering how that's gonna lose you at least half an hour of battery life, in addition to the previous issues with linux.
Which is a valid point, but Discord still needs to run in the background if I understand it correctly, or at least when I launch the project on Deck it says that it needs to.
Am I missing something?
Is the Discord client running side by side with steam-presence a hard requirement?
You mentioned we can run steam-presence on a server (which I intended to do with Docker), but that would mean having a GUI running with Discord.
Can you please clarify how would such a setup be viable?
Are there tools that can send RPC data to Discord's servers other than the official client?
This video should sum things up quite well. No errors locally at all. Tried rebooting and reinstalling steam-presence. I am using the latest Discord from the AUR. I have sanity checked my json file multiple times, and it's accurate.
Is there any way we can change "a game on steam" to "on Steam Deck" so that it says
Playing on Steam Deck
Control Ultimate Edition
The Foundation
04:26 elapsed
instead of "Playing a game on steam, etc"
If that's possible I think it would look a lot better. I know this rich presence isn't intended solely for the Steam Deck but that's what I and many others are using it for, so the ability to customize the RPC title would be great
This is a question and also a problem i'm having with the script, i run the script but... im not sure what it's supposed to do next...
I have a config.json already set up with my steam id, user id, everything but... Is not showing up in my profile?
I have made sure that the script is running, changed the configs as i needed but nothing is working.
In the latest release the main.py has this line:
do_game_title = config["DO_GAME_TITLE_AS_DESCRIPTION"]
But the example json doesn't provide a value for this, so using the example config.json gives an error when you run main.py.
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