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Userscript for Steam Storefront to find giveaways

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DrKoljan

Since the folks here weren't too enthusiastic about my suggestion to add more sophisticated sorting to this site, I decided to write a userscript to accomplish the same task.

In short, it works on Steam Storefront search pages and finds all the giveaways for every game in the list and adds links to them next to the game's title.

It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/bomRP.png

A more detailed description and the userscript itself can be found here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/113995

Do post any suggestions and/or bugs you find, any constructive feedback is welcome.

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Mavromatis

Wonderful idea. Thanks.

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Sophira

I don't think it's an API; that's the URL that's used when you use the search box at the top of the SteamGifts site when you're on the homepage or any page related to gifts, as opposed to forums.

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DrKoljan

ajax_gifts.php doesn't even support any page besides the first one (page=2 doesn't work), so the userscript has to download the whole page for the rest. I wish both Steam and Steamgifts had a richer API. :(

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snackbox

Well, a rich API would encourage bots, or scripts to interact with the site for you.

But on the other hand, no API encourages inefficient bots...

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ArchitectGG

For some reason it doesn't work for me, but great idea! =)

Maybe because of Firefox 7? Dunno.

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AoB

Firefox 7? It's already out? :O
Bloody hell, I just upgraded from 4 to 6 like a week or two ago

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ArchitectGG

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1128229

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Specs

Firefox is fast, y'know

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DrKoljan

Indeed, just upgraded to Firefox 7 and it stopped working for me. No sleep for me tonight. :(
Edit: never mind, it has nothing to do with Firefox 7. It just assumed any price includes a dot (.) but euro uses a comma (,). Fixed version has been uploaded.

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Closed 13 years ago by DrKoljan.