Do i need to sync my hidden games list every time i add another game to that list to make ESGST show "hidden" tag for that game?
Maybe there is an option to add game i hide to ESGST at the same time?
Sorry if asked already. Just installed your script and lost in amount of various settings... :)
P.S. Happy Cake Day btw!
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At the moment, yes. I was going to implement an option to add the games immediately when the hide button is pressed, but forgot about it. I'll add it to my todo list.
And thanks!
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Will wait for upcoming updates.
Asked about this feature because my hidden games list contains almost 11k items and sync takes more time than all other sync items combined.
Also i saw request that ESGST doesn't detect some owned packages in giveaways extractor. I can confirm that. This package not filtered as owned for me.
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Hi revilheart.
Ever since I switched to the extension version the Steam button on the Won Giveaways page doesn't open the Steam Client Product Activation window anymore (it does still copy the key to clipboard); is this a known limitation?
I also noticed that the Changelog on this page ends at version 7.17.8. :)
Thanks again for all your amazing work.
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I think the Steam client had an issue with that. Is this still a problem?
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As of today it still did not bring up the Activation window. I just checked; my Steam Client is up to date and I am using ESGST 7.22.
If I don't forget then next time I'll see what happens when I click the icon without the client running.
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This is definitely an issue with the Steam client. Or the browser. Because if I paste steam://open/activateproduct on my browser URL it also doesn't work.
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I tried steam://open/activateproduct in both Firefox and Chrome and neither worked.
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https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/1693795812301621733/
But that's Beta, so not sure...
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Hi revilheart.
From last 3 days ESGST is stuck on creating/saving backup data dialog box.
I left one tab for 3-4 hrs and still same info was shown.
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Please check the console log when it happens (Ctrl + Shift + J).
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There are multiple error messages.
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None of them appear to come from ESGST, but I see that one of them says that blob is not supported in your platform. What browser are you using?
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Firefox DE 62.0b4 (64-bit)
I saw that other tab had some contributed to the errors generated. That's why I updated the earlier comment with new snapshot with only SG running.
This snapshot that I have posted in this comment is of when I freshly ran my browser with only SG running.
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What's DE? But I guess it doesn't matter, since v62 should be supported.
Those errors still don't look related. Errors from ESGST should come from esgst.js, and you can see those errors come from start.js and background.js. The blob one was the one that caught my attention because it doesn't say where it comes from.
You took these after trying to backup, right?
The last update was 8 days ago, so it's odd that this is an error on ESGST, since you said it only started 3 days ago. Are you backing up to the computer or to the cloud?
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Its the Developer Edition.
The problem occurs when ESGST performs auto-backup. I am not sure but is background.js related to any of the theme included in ESGST?
By 3 days I mean I started getting annoyed by it. Its more than 3 days. I am backing the data to pc.
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No, ESGST doesn't have any script named background.js, that's coming from somewhere else.
If you're backing to the PC then a download dialog should appear immediately, so I think this is really about the blob error, because the script creates a blob to be downloaded. I'll have to download the developer edition and test it myself, I think the problem might be in the browser.
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Question: have you successfully backed up at all since the .zip format was introduced? I'm currently using Nightly and it's taking very long to backup .zip files.
Anyways, the latest version backs up .json files by default, like it used to in the past, and now users have to opt-in to backing up as .zip in the settings menu, since it appears Firefox has some serious performance issues with the compression method.
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Wasn't aware of zip format. The last backup was on 2018-05-18 (weekly auto-backup). No new backups are created since then and all the backup are on .json. So the issue may have been introduced after that date.
I have updated ESGST to newest version. No auto-backup message is displayed and also no error messages. Ran the manual backup, it works perfectly. Previously "Blob error" was shown on console while doing a manual backup.
So like you said it might be because of .zip format and the compression.
Thanks for looking into it revilheart.
BTW issues regarding user tags mentioned below are gone. It works fine now. And will you be able to add a autocomplete feature on usertags textbox in the future update?
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Hey revilheart. I am again running into some issues. I am not sure why it is behaving like that but for certain users there is no icon/button for adding user tags.
For first one there is no option to add user tag while others like 2nd pic have option to add tags
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Thanks a lot for the extension! :) Very useful! Just one thing, and sorry if it's already a feature that I missed... Could you possibly add a "points to spend to win" box to giveaways, that either replaces or is put next to "chance to win?" Meaning how many points you'd have to spend to win the game, on average?
The formula: Points / Copies x Entries. IMO, this value is even more important than "chance to win," because it tells you whether that particular giveaway is worth participating in. "Chance to win" usually doesn't give you much concrete info, it's almost always a very small number.
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I don't remember the formula for it, but have you checked chance per point? It appears when you hover over the global chance. I'll check the formula later, if it's not the same as the one you posted I'll think about adding it.
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I forgot about chance per point, that is indeed a more specific value indicator. However, points to spend to win is more specific, as it's a much higher number that lets you evaluate how many points you think each game is worth. Hypothetically, I can have my own rule that says if a giveaway's points to win is higher than 7000, it's going to have to be a game I really really want. So if I see a game with 8000 points to win, and it's a game I don't really want that badly, I'm instantly going to ignore it. Makes looking through giveaways a breeze.
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Noooo Iost all my bookmarks and settings again :(
and my last backup is from 3 days ago even though it was set to save every day. Damn, same thing happened at the last update. What am I doing wrong? (sorry for all the whining but I came to rely so much on the extension, it's brilliant)
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can't help you, Fluffster, but thanks for the backup remainder :D
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No idea. You just opened it today and everything was gone? Did you not notice the backup window not appearing in the last 3 days? Also, are you on the extension or on the userscript? I hope you didn't lose too much, if your last backup was 3 days ago, your settings and most of your bookmarks are still there, you just need to restore it.
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My laptop is idle sometimes so I don't always see the backup window but I usually check that a file has been created, which I didn't this week. Boo to me.
I am using the extension but it's probably just my old broke-ass laptop. My gaming rig has been in the shop a while so I'm using an old Dell I have and I can only run Firefox 53.
I restored and it's fine really. Just lost some bookmarks I guess but it's not as if they were secret GAs with 2 entries lol
Same thing happened with the last update. So I guess I'll just keep an eye on the backup for next time.
Thanks a lot for the good work :)
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is there a way to sync ESGST settings across 2 computers?
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Backup from one computer and restore from the other. Using one of the cloud services prevents you from having to copy the file between the computers.
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I have only been getting a loading for the IsThereAnyDeal data for a few week now. Am I the only one with this issue? ESGST v7220 with tampermonkey
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Worked fine for me just now. Look for errors in the console log (Ctrl + Shift + J).
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Ah, I have a few errors. I didn't have bartervg.com whitelisted for tampermonkey. And error on saying https//www.streamtrades.com is blacklisted but I don't see where it is blacklisted and it is on my whitelist already.
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It was indeed an issue, I had not realized they changed the way the site looks a bit. Should be working fine in the latest version.
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Sorry if this seems like a dumb question. how does this work? Like does it keep chrome running, or does it become a background process.
How does the message notification work? sends email, text msg, etc?
If this works like i think it does, I may install a bare bones Linux on vmware to run it. I dont like having my steam account logged in on my pc kids and stuff using my nice pc, could be a bad day for my inventory / rep should they find the site :)
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No, that's not how extensions work. It only works while the browser and SG tabs are open. And obviously, it only works in the open SG tabs.
It works as browser notifications (the same way that YouTube notifications work, for example).
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Okay, that what I was thinking, just was unsure how the push system worked for the notifications.
I have plans to leaving a virtual machine running with the browser and tabs open.
Do you know if there is a way to hook the notification system of chrome, firefox etc.. to an email system so it will send an email? when it pushes the notification?
I have an addiction to for checking msg on steamtrades. ;)
Thanks for your time and reply.
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I don't think an email system is doable with only the client side, since I don't have a server.
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Would it be possible to make the "Chance per Point" switch between Advanced Formula (based on entries and timeleft) and the current chance (based only on entries)? If not, which one does it uses as default?
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Yes, it's possible. At the moment chance per point uses whatever formula you have as default.
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You can now see both. When you hover over the chance you should now see something like "0% basic and 0% advanced per point". When using the filters, there is now a filter called Projected Chance Per Point that uses the advanced formula, while the Chance Per Point filter now always uses the basic formula regardless of which one you have as default.
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Is it possible to hide a specific giveaway? I do not want to hide the game, only the specific giveaway of the game.
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Does the ESGST synchronize games marked as "Steam is learning about this game"? (With or without Steam API Key?)
Would it be possible to make ESGST automatically "filter" owned games and DLC's? Filter as in adding the game or DLC to the Giveaway filters here: https://www.steamgifts.com/account/settings/giveaways/filters
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I'm not familiar with those games, can you link a Steam page to one?
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Just check put the latest Indiegala Bundle, half the games is marked as so. One example is https://store.steampowered.com/app/877190/Flamebound/
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I don't think there's anything special about them, in terms of API detecting: https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=877190 The link you posted is already used by ESGST.
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Hello. I'm confused using "region restricted" filter. How it works? So far it seems it just hide/show all region restricted GAs, while i'm looking for hide/show region restricted GAs that available/not available to me to enter.
I'm speaking mainly about giveaway extractor cause in main pages wrong regions GAs already hidden.
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That's how it works. Hiding only ones that are not available for your region is a bit more complicated. Though for Giveaway Extractor I could make it work.
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I'm getting a false "owned" for Bastion. Don't know if it's relevant, but I suppose it's good to report.
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Today i got false "owned" tag for this game.
I'm sure yesterday there was no such tag for this game
Sync not changed anything
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I also noticed false 'Owned' tags for Little Nightmares, multiple Neptunia games and some others.
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Would you be willing to help me find the issue (you would need to install a different version of the script)? Or any of you who are having the problem.
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I think if you just send me your main game data I can try to reproduce it (if you go to the settings menu and backup Games -> Main and upload it somewhere).
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Should be fixed in the latest. Thanks for the help!
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Can anyone explain me what Endless Scrolling for Giveaway Encrypter/Decrypter, Extractor and Filters (1.8.5 till 1.8.7) does? I couldn't find any difference if these options are enabled or disabled. Encryptor and Extractor are always endless scroll-able and I've no idea what the last one for filters should do.
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It refers to the popups of those features:
- Giveaway Encrypter/Decrypter - The popup that you get by clicking the star at the top of the page.
- Giveaway Extractor - The popup that you get when extracting the giveaways.
- Giveaway Filters - The popup that you get by going to the settings menu and viewing the list of single giveaways that you have hidden.
In those popups, if you scroll down to the end, the green button that allows you to load more content is automatically triggered.
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Can you help me with filters please?
My current setup: https://imgur.com/hFAT7tA
I see only level 6 giveaways and all giveaways with 3 or more copies. And now I'd like to hide all entered giveaways. But how?
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- Change the main group to AND.
- Add a new group.
- Change the new group to OR.
- Move the level and copies rules to the new group.
- Add a new rule with Entered set to false.
The logic you want is: entered = false AND (level >= 6 OR copies >= 3)
If you read the manual of the feature you can see how you can turn this logic into the rules.
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Are you using advanced formula? If so, you need to change Chance to Projected Chance.
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Chance -> Basic Chance (2.25)
Projected Chance -> Advanced Chance (2.25.2)
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So it is impossible to use Basic Chance (2.25) in advanced filters now? There is "Chance" in the list but it seems my old rule stop working.
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No, there's still Chance. Projected Chance is an addition. What do you mean they stopped working?
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I used this filters https://imgur.com/a/IzZm6ew After update (7.24.0) it looked like Chance filter stopped working (like on LoGa16's screenshot) but after replacement Chance filter with Projected Chance it works.
Upd. Well I tried Chance filter again and it works fine now. Sorry for disturbing.
PS I just found out that you can move the element around by dragging and dropping it. It is very cool. Thank you.
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Probably you used advanced chance? Not sure, but glad it's working again.
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Did the new version (7.24.0) break the ability to display which items have trading cards, or did the API server just go down? I've reloaded the page many times, and only saw the trading cards icons once.
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It's a bug, as you can see a few comments above. Disable 7.2.2 until it's fixed.
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Thanks for the prompt reply! I'll find the prior version and install it.
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There's no need to find prior version. Like I said, you just need to disable 7.2.2 (the option in the settings menu). It will be fixed in the next version.
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Oh! I was thinking version number, not option number, so my brain misread 7.2.2 as 7.24. :) Thanks again!
(The option appears to be 8.2.2 on my installation. Section 7 is "Groups")
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Ah, yes, SteamTrades users have an extra "Trades" section, forgot to mention that.
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I've never actually used SteamTrades, but ESGST has always displayed the options for both sites. I don't remember doing anything to select which sites are active in the script. Maybe I'm just forgetting something I did on initial install.
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Hey guys, does anyone know a profile page that has a mix of received and not received winners in the 3 winners that are displayed in the page? For science. Thanks.
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so it seems isthereanydeal.com changed something and its not working with ESGST and others anymore
any chance you can look at this?
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it seems there is something wrong with the filtering
when I filter for Trading Cards it shows how many are filtered out, but they are still in the list (when I filter for all which don't have trading cards it works though)
other filters seems unaffected (at least I haven't found one who acts similar)
Edit: okey, seems to be not as easy
Sometimes it doesn't work at all
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it seems that the firefox expansion isn't available anymore?
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Mozilla disabled it until I do some things that they asked. :/ It's weird that they're only asking this now, since they already distribute it for almost 6 months now, but I'm trying to comply with their requirements as fast as I can.
Question though: did you lose the add-on or you simply can't update it?
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I just can't update but the extension still work fine 👍
I'm going to make a backup and use userscript for now.
Thanks revil ^^
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I guess I got it in a narrow window when it was available earlier today or something because it updated like normal but it doesn't work, so I don't know what I really got. Now if I go to steamgifts with it enabled, the page never finishes loading, using up 50% CPU and locking up the browser so I have to kill it. Could you provide it on github like you used to? I think it was an xpi file that you just dragged into the browser.
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See if it works for you: https://github.com/revilheart/ESGST/blob/master/esgst-7.24.2-an%2Bfx.xpi
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Hmmmm...same thing, maybe something else is going on -- could I have an xpi for 7.24.0? That was working before the update.
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That's a little bit harder for me. Can you open the browser console and see if there's any useful information there? Also, does it happen on every page? Even simple ones like this: https://www.steamgifts.com/account
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I was able to load that page, although it seemed like it needed to use more resources than normal before finally settling down. Not quite sure what to look at in the browser console. There are some warnings, but I'm not sure if they're for ESGST:
Warning: attempting to write 5959 bytes to preference extensions.xpiState. This is bad for general performance and memory usage. Such an amount of data should rather be written to an external file. This preference will not be sent to any content processes.
1532477913726 addons.webextension.{71de700c-ca62-4e31-9de6-93e3c30633d6} WARN Loading extension '{71de700c-ca62-4e31-9de6-93e3c30633d6}': Reading manifest: Error processing background.persistent: Event pages are not currently supported. This will run as a persistent background page.
1532477913762 addons.webextension.{71de700c-ca62-4e31-9de6-93e3c30633d6} WARN Loading extension '{71de700c-ca62-4e31-9de6-93e3c30633d6}': Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.18: Unknown permission "unlimitedStorage"
1532477913810 addons.webextension.{71de700c-ca62-4e31-9de6-93e3c30633d6} WARN Please specify whether you want browser_style or not in your browser_action options.Looking for references to ESGST, there's:
JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data esgst.js:1929
and many:
Unchecked lastError value: Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist. ExtensionCommon.jsm:265
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Looks like there's an issue loading your storage. Did you make a backup recently?
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I thought I did but I don't see it on Google Drive, so I guess it didn't work the other day -- I may have a much older one somewhere. So you think my storage data got corrupted or something? ...because if I load that simple page I can still see my ESGST giveaway bookmarks and if I go to the backup data option it shows ~3MB total of all kinds of data.
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Well, if you're seeing your storage then it's being accessed, so I have no idea where those errors are coming from... This started immediately when you updated to the latest version?
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Yeah, right after I updated, and the v7.24.0 xpi is working fine, so thanks very much for that!!
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Here's the one for v7.24.0: https://github.com/revilheart/ESGST/blob/master/esgst-7.24.3-an%2Bfx.xpi Don't worry about the 7.24.3 number, Mozilla doesn't allow uploading the same version twice, so I had to change that number, but internally it's v7.24.0.
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Would it be possible under 7.2 Game Categories introduce the category "steam is learning about this game" to mark these games?
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Enhanced SteamGifts & SteamTrades (ESGST)
An extension / userscript that adds some cool features to SteamGifts and SteamTrades.
If you find any bugs or have any feature requests, please file an issue here.
Compatibility
Tested and confirmed as working:
Not tested but should be working:
Not supported:
Installation
There are two different ways to use ESGST: extension or userscript. You can choose which one you want to use, but the extension is a lot faster and has a better peformance than the userscript, so I recommend it, although there is no major difference between them, except for a few options that are only available in the extension because of limitations in the userscript.
Option 1 - Extension
It should be possible to install the extension in any Chromium-based browser from the Chrome store (such as Opera, Vivaldi, etc...), any Firefox-based browser from the Firefox store (such as Waterfox, etc...), and any browser that uses the Phoebus system from the Pale Moon store (such as Basilik, etc...).
You can also use the extension on Android through Firefox for Android, but some features might not work or not be optimized enough for mobile.
Option 2 - Userscript
To install the userscript, you must install Violentmonkey, Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or some other userscript manager first. Then click here and you should be prompted to install it. I recommend Violentmonkey or Tampermonkey, because the userscript uses the GM_addValueChangeListener API to communicate changes in the storage between tabs, and that API is not available on Greasemonkey, so a polyfill is used for Greasemonkey, which is not very effective and can affect the performance.
You can also use the userscript on Android through Firefox with Violentmonkey or USI, but some features might not work or not be optimized enough for mobile.
Beta Versions
The latest beta version for both the extension and the userscript is always available in the latest pre-release in the releases page.
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