[Software] Archi's Steam Farm (ASF), Steam idler (and much more) [Windows/Linux/OS X]

Nope, it requires no steam client. Program is standalone.

No :3.

However it works on all Windows with 4.5+ .NET framework, and on all Linuxes through Mono.

Maybe try using Wineskin? http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php

Read OP.

Idle master imitiates launching game process to steam client. My program does not require launching steam client, and the main purpose is farming N accounts simultaneously.

As pointed in the OP, this is useless for you if you have one account only, as idle master does that much better and more user-friendly. But if you have let's say 5 alt accounts, this is another story. Which is no longer true, as now ASF is better than IM in every possible scenario.

On the same machine? You can't, steam client is programmed to be the only process launched. You'd need virtual machines or other PCs.

Here however we don't have steam clients, but something that acts like a steam client when it comes to communicating with steam network. This is whole another story.

Yes u can, with Sandboxie (software isolation)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=311943358

Yep, this is possible side effect. But it will take long time before this thing actually evolves into something that works at least quite well. Current status is "works for me, probably has many awful bugs, I need feedback".

I agree with you, but the market is already saturated, most cards from sometimes-free games are worth 3-4 cents.

The card farming has been abused since the beginning.

You forgot about one little detail - if you didn't spend at least 5$ on account in steam store, you can't trade with other users. So, if someone wants to create bot account for farming cards, he need to invest at least 5$ per account - it's 50$ for 10 accounts. People who can spend that much money usually not interested in farming cards

Yes and yes. Steam API key is used for making trades, you should enter a website linked in the comment found in config and generate one for yourself. You can put any domain, and you'll get api key afterwards.

SteamMasterID should be set to your ID. You can check it e.g. on steamrep. SteamID64 version.

You put wrong API key. You should log in as your bot in your browser, then generate API key from that account.

However, bot will work properly even with wrong one. Just trading will be broken.

amazing stuff, doesn't work for me though =\
i think there's some weird problem on steam that's causing it though, stupid steam

And yes, this account has quite a few games that have card drops available on them.

After you edit the XML file and open the ArchiSteamFarm.exe, you first see INFO: OnConnected() Connected to Steam! and then see Please enter your 2 factor auth code from your authenticator app:

Any domain that you want to use that does not have a key set up for it already.

Android app for what, farming? Not going to happen, I need it on my server, not on my phone.

look at your profile, you are ingame, it works
however, a status info would be nice

This comes directly from ArchiBoT to access steam store pages for 18+ games. This part of the code is unused for now, but might get used soon.

It does this if Enabled value = "false". Change that to True.

ok, figured that out, now how to add two steam guard codes at once?

I just could enter one, second got ignored :O

Works with this release, thank you!

Very nice! Thanks!

Check TODO list on GitHb, for now it works as older idle master, farming only 1 game at maximum until it drops all the cards. In future it may change, I don't have much willings to work on it right now, as my farm is working on my server 24/7, and it has plenty of time to farm all the games.

1 for each account. Each account must have unique API key generated as logged in bot account in steamcommunity. You can't use API key generated from account1 on account2 and vice versa.

Also trading module is a giant hack that probably can be done better, steam is awful at that part (development-wise), so it may randomly work or not. Usually it does work for me.

No. The only requirement is that my farm should have exclusive access to accounts used. You can e.g. use your account 1 and idle master on that without any problems, and use my farm for accounts 2, 3 and 4. This is what I'm doing.

Don't worry, my archibot and my farm already have dedicated server :3