We have SteamDB.info, which does its job showing us what we own and allowing us to navigate to individual game entries to see what DLC is available, hidden, etc., but sorting through large libraries looking for free DLC (such as the reskin packs for Galagan's Island or Vertical Drop Heroes HD) takes forever. Does anybody know of a site, tool, or other management solution that will scrape your library and list games that have free DLC?

No giveaway this time; paying bills

EDIT: While the SteamDB.info license script is not, in the slightest, what I am looking for, I have found that I could modify it to add free DLCs that have been removed from the store and cannot normally be activated any longer. Score. Still need to manually add the package IDs, though.

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https://steamdb.info/freepackages/

It basically scans your existing library via steam's own Licenses page. And outputs any free DLC you can collect for those games. adds every single free DLC to your licenses (...) Okay, in retrospect, maybe should have let it run first. BUT it does only download the DLC for games you actually own, and have installed. Else, they'll just be unlocked for uninstalled games.

Simple to run, no downloads, instructions on the page. Does take a few minutes to run through though. Couple thousand free things out there.

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That's a really good link, thanks, but sadly it also stuffs ALL the free to play games and ALL the free demos onto your account as well - so I'd be wary before trying it =)

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First thing of any even remotely the same from what I found in Google. lol, wish had known before, since now trying to clean it up a little bit; only found 5 things of any good to me. Thankfully didn't auto-add everything to library as well, or would have been hell.

I know there used to be a webbased tool, but I'll be damned if I can find it any more.

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Yeah, I was this close to running it myself and then I remembered that it adds demos/F2P too... not wanting to deal with THAT cleanup, hehe.

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It says twice on the page that it includes everything including demos.

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I wasn't talking about running it today, smartarse ;)

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Already aware of it, ran it on my bot accounts (that's how I found that Grimm and Voxelized still drop cards). But I was looking for a solution that lists options tailored to your account, not something that bruteforce adds everything with the word "free" to your account.

EDIT: And to the note of unlocking free DLC for games that you do not own, that's not how it works. DLC will not unlock on your account unless you own the base game, so running this before buying Galagan's Island will not mean that you will already have the reskin packs unlocked once you do own it.

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you could temporarily move your current games to a category if they aren't already in one, then run it, in which case it will be easier to see the free games and remove them, before putting back your normal games

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The script adds over 3000 entries, mostly demos. And the account license page where removing the licenses is poorly coded, having titles in its list bounce around every time you remove one title. Cleanup afterward is a chore, and I've already done it to two accounts.

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hold shift when selecting them all

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I'm not talking about categorizing, I mean actual license removal from your account at https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/

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Any quick way to clean up? xD Yeah, was trying to help, came across it, but assumed it would only add relevant DLCs, not the whole lot. Should have been suspicious about the 3000-odd entries.
If it was a good old fashioned link, be easy, but not when its freaking javascript.

I know there used to be a webbased one that just output a list with links, but I'll be damned if I can find that now.

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There's still the "free games and DLC" thread on the Steam forums, but that's manually edited and missing a LOT. Admittedly though, I did just find a couple. Doesn't tell you how to activate the Afterfall DLC, either "had to tool the SteamDB script to do that).

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The more I think about it, though, the SteamDB script IS already tailored to read your account and adjust itself accordingly. If it could further be tailored to only output DLC packages, that would do just fine.

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You can use this afterwards to clean up the demos.
https://steamdb.info/forum/544/
Scroll down a little to find the removal script. Use in conjunction with the Demo compiled list in the next post to remove some ~1600 entries or more.

I just ran it in conjunction with the original script to remove all but the 5 entries that were useful to me. >.> But that was annoying.
Note to self: Do more bloody research next time. lol...

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I once tried some script package to add free dlcs of games I owned. Seems the script had been reworked and it gave me all the existing free DLcs on steam store and all free videos and demos added to account some crazy 5000 items. Fortunately I found a reverse re working script that let me choose post cutoff date of last Item I owned off the added junk. I had hell of a time reversing it and kicking it all out. Since then I stopped using scripts and extensions in fear.

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It's not auto-detect, but it's the best list I know: http://whosgamingnow.net/discussion/22/free-dlc-on-steam/

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Here's version with only DLCs

http://pastebin.com/hw3gb11C

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Thank you for that. Just nabbed me quite a few soundtracks I was missing. Did you base it off of the logged-off version, or your personal version that SteamDB generated?

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I used my personal project for data source (which tracks sales / price changes)

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Well, again, thanks for the work.

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If you end up compiling a decent list of removed DLCs that can be added please take the time to post it here in a reply or edit. :D

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Just used your script, it added 40 out of the 179, and wanted to say thanks! :D

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in chrome:
go to https://store.steampowered.com/account/licenses/
ctrl + shift + j
copy/paste
press enter

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Why would you run 2 scripts for adding and removing licenses.
Just removed the demo list from https://steamdb.info/freepackages/

Here you go:

http://pastebin.com/DpLtGxdF

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