Why?

So since a few weeks Groupees now shows games set to Trade when filtering on games with unused Steam keys. This is super annoying as I used that function to see if I missed any new keys being added (greenlit games, etc.). The only 'fix' was to just remove them from trade and reveal the keys. Since I was doing that anyway I might as well just create some giveaways, eh?

How?

So there I thought I'd spend an hour or two on creating a better way to make a 'table' instead of a 'train'. Obviously the below table is great if you have Sighery's RaChart™ Enhancer installed; you will see with pretty good accuracy which games you don't own yet and won't have to click through all the games you do own to get to them.

Woh...

So, seven hours on... It turns out it's not as easy as I was hoping it to be. I created a php script and the first part is pretty easy; copying the innerHTML and the game names and links from the Giveaways Created page. But then we get to the second part... Since I couldn't find anything better I used Compare2Steam to get a table that includes a link to the Steam Store for each of the giveaways. But then you get all kinds of funny business with multiple tables when things are not recognised properly or if you don't own it yourself and you have to manually put rows from one table into the other. In the end I had to painstakingly check the results by hand, the complete reverse of what I was trying to accomplish. The table below should have all the links as they need to be, but yeah... And don't even get me started on the utf-8 problems; textContent might be the culprit but I don't even want to look into it now.

Help!

So what I want should be simple but all my Googling didn't find anything. Just a site (or an API) where I can just drop a list of game names into a textarea and get returned a list of links to the Steam Store, one per line for each game. Please let me know if you know of something like that; it will make future giveaways so much easier. Thanks!

TL;DR

Below is a table with giveaways (level 3), click to enter.

Steam Giveaway
ABC Coloring Town Giveaway
AR-K Giveaway
Abduction Action! Plus Giveaway
Age of Steel: Recharge Giveaway
Alice's Patchwork Giveaway
AoF Chess Club 2.0 Giveaway
Awakened Giveaway
Betrayer Giveaway
Bloodbath Kavkaz Giveaway
Bomb The Monsters! Giveaway
Caravanserail Giveaway
Case #8 Giveaway
Catch a Falling Star Giveaway
Caveman Craig Giveaway
Chronicles of the Witches and Warlocks Giveaway
City of Fools Giveaway
Contract With The Devil Giveaway
Crazy Belts Giveaway
CrazyCars3D Giveaway
Cuban Missile Crisis + Ice Crusade Pack Giveaway
DEUS EX MACHINA 2 Giveaway
Darkness Assault Giveaway
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut Giveaway
Deadly Sin 2 Giveaway
Demented Giveaway
Devil's Dare 悪魔の挑戦 Giveaway
Doodle God Giveaway
Drakensang Giveaway
Dreamscapes: The Sandman - Premium Edition Giveaway
Dusty Revenge:Co-Op Edition Giveaway
Elysium: Blood Games Giveaway
Envy the Dead Giveaway
Epsilon corp. Giveaway
Fairy Tale Mysteries 2: The Beanstalk Giveaway
Fort Defense - Bermuda Triangle Giveaway
Fruits Inc. Deluxe Pack Giveaway
Gems of the Aztecs Giveaway
Gnomes Garden Giveaway
Gnumz: Masters of Defense Giveaway
Green Ranch Giveaway
Insane Giveaway
Jackal Giveaway
Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire Giveaway
Jim Power -The Lost Dimension Giveaway
Journey of a Roach Giveaway
Judgement Giveaway
Legend (1994) Giveaway
Lucius II Giveaway
Mini Golf Mundo Giveaway
Morphine Giveaway
My Bones Giveaway
Mystica: The Ninth Society Giveaway
NecroVisioN: Lost Company Giveaway
New York Taxi Simulator Giveaway
Oknytt Giveaway
Oniken: Unstoppable Edition Giveaway
POPixel Giveaway
POSTAL Giveaway
PeriAreion Giveaway
Pier Solar and the Great Architects + Soundtrack Giveaway
Polyball Giveaway
Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition Giveaway
Post Master Giveaway
Puzzles Under The Hill Giveaway
Quest for Infamy Giveaway
Rush for gold: Alaska Giveaway
Safety Driving Simulator: Car Giveaway
Scapeland Giveaway
Showing Tonight: Mindhunters Incident Giveaway
SimpleRockets Giveaway
Sister’s Secrecy: Arcanum Bloodlines - Premium Edition Giveaway
Solar Shifter EX Giveaway
Solitaire Christmas. Match 2 Cards Giveaway
Song of the Myrne: What Lies Beneath Giveaway
Spakoyno: Back to the USSR 2.0 Giveaway
Stalingrad Giveaway
Stigmat Giveaway
Tales from the Void Giveaway
Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio Giveaway
The Archetype Giveaway
The Lost Island Giveaway
The Lost Souls Giveaway
Theatre of War 2: Africa 1943 Giveaway
Theatre of War 2: Centauro Giveaway
UFO: Aftermath Giveaway
VERGE:Lost chapter Giveaway
Voodoo Chronicles: The First Sign HD - Director’s Cut Edition Giveaway
Warhammer Quest Giveaway
White Mirror Giveaway
Wild Season Giveaway
Wooden Floor Giveaway
Wooden Floor 2 - Resurrection Giveaway
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Damn, this is even more useful than bundle charts.
I believe the lazy guy in me just shed a tear of pure crystallized joy.
Thanks :3

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  • about a million!
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This is pretty awesome. Thanks! (◕‿-)✌

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Bump.

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It looks great and sounds like it took a lot of work, I salute you for that. Unfortunately I don't know anything that could be of use, so... can't help.
...except if you consider my entering your giveaways "helping", then I can help

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Bump and many thanks!

7 years ago
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looks excellent though. thanks for all the hard work & chances. ^^

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lvl 3 only

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Bump'd for Thanks

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Smooth. Hope you find the method to automate the links. Still, it's pretty smooth as is.

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Bump. Thanks :)

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Bump!

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Maybe something like Compare2steam, since you can input a list of games and it should return a link for each one. Some games trip up the site, and you'll still have to manually copy and paste the store link, but it might save a bit of time?

Edit: I skipped ahead to the Help part and didn't see that you used Compare2Steam already. Sorry, wish I could be more help :\

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bump!

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Bump!

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Nice and bump

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I thought I'd spend an hour or two on creating a better way to make a 'table' instead of a 'train'.

Thank you for the idea, because I really hate trains. Too much clicking for games you often end up owning most of. A chart is way better.

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Thanks and bump :)

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bump

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BUMP!!!

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The only thing I know is http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamApps/GetAppList/v2 that is in json format. Maybe some games are missing tho. Not return a link, but you can construct it with the appid

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Thanks for the effort in getting these all up! I don't know of an easy way but I'm going to have to do the same with my Groupees account too one of these days.

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Bump and thanks (very impressive layout :)

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