[Userscript] SteamGifts Giveaways Table/Chart Creator 1.3

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[Userscript] SteamGifts Giveaways Table/Chart Creator

tl;dr

See the 2nd attached image to see the script in action.

Introduction

This script allows you to very easily create a (RaChart compatible) table/chart (pick your favorite term) of all/some giveaways you created for easy pasting in any thread. The table contains a column with the game name and a link to the Steam Store and a column with a link to the giveaway. You can add extra columns as desired.

With one click it creates a number of tables at once; one as described above, one for pasting to Excel, one for Giveaways for peace, one for Positive thread!, and one for You're Not Alone #3. These last three add columns with the supplied level, end date, and the creator name for direct pasting to those threads.

What it does

It adds a few extra options to the sidebar of the Giveaways Created page that will allow you to create tables/charts per the settings you select (see the 1st attached image). You can create a table for all giveaways on the page (it supports endless scrolling if you have that via a script) or just those you specifically want to select.

Once you click the Create Giveaway Tables button it create a number of different tables and will display links to popups containing the tables. A button on the popup allows you to copy the table to clipboard, ready for pasting.

Download

The script can be installed from here.

Step by step tutorials

See these threads for more information:

Original Background

I've been a fan of RaChart™ Enhancer ever since Sighery created the script; it's such a quick way to see what games in a list/chart/table you own and which you don't. I saw other applications for it than bundle postings. It seemed to me to be a perfect evolution of the 'train' giveaways; just one table where you can immediately see which games you already own and handy links to bring you to the giveaways of those you don't.

The only problem; creating such a table was a manual and rather laborious affair (though Sighery came through again; with a Python script). So I've been thinking about creating some way to automate the process completely and here's the result of what I've come up with. Most of the credit should go to Sighery, without his help this script wouldn't exist.

Technical stuff

It's pretty simple; the script iterates all created giveaways on the page and grabs the game name, giveaway url, and the game image url. From the game image url we can create a Steam Store url. These three are all that are needed to create the table. It now also grabs the timestamp to be able to include the end date and to skip any ended giveaways if desired.

In the few cases that there is no image, it loads this Steam page with the game name as the search variable. Then it compares any results to the game name and in case of an exact match we take the link from that page and cut off the cruft (everything after the last '/').

There are cases where there are no exact matches on that Steam page; cause of subs, certain DLC, weird capitals, etc. If this is the case then we fall back to loading the Giveaway page straight from Steamgifts and grabbing the Steam link from there. There are a very few cases where that would fail too, as you can create giveaways like this one. If, for whatever reason, no link can be found I put a 'NO LINK FOUND' in the table.

The giveaway level could be gotten from the individual giveaway pages but I don't feel that warrants loading them all and creating a strain on the server. And in the vast majority of the cases all giveaways will be the same level anyway.

Changelog

Version 1.3

Updated to be ESGST compatible again.
Added the missing "Game" header to the Excel table.

View attached image.

7 years ago*

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cbones

I don't know which one to bump so I'll bump 2 threads ... here is a donation/test bump:

Steam	Giveaway
Draw Slasher	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/mK9Ti/
Friday Night Bullet Arena	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/wM6XT/
Black Swan	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/BYfFJ/
The Albatross	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/fFTqv/
Captain Lycop : Invasion of the Heters	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/fTGCI/
The Safeguard Garrison	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/lb9Av/
Rest House	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/gIT0b/
CrossWorlds: Escape	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/NWPJN/
Dashing Dinos	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/9Wc6i/
Mortificatio	https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/rKOtj/

Steam | Giveaway
:-|:-
**[Draw Slasher](http://store.steampowered.com/app/418270/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/mK9Ti/
**[Friday Night Bullet Arena](http://store.steampowered.com/app/513840/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/wM6XT/
**[Black Swan](http://store.steampowered.com/app/560230/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/BYfFJ/
**[The Albatross](http://store.steampowered.com/app/581600/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/fFTqv/
**[Captain Lycop : Invasion of the Heters](http://store.steampowered.com/app/525070/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/fTGCI/
**[The Safeguard Garrison](http://store.steampowered.com/app/585580/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/lb9Av/
**[Rest House](http://store.steampowered.com/app/582290/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/gIT0b/
**[CrossWorlds: Escape](http://store.steampowered.com/app/511430/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/NWPJN/
**[Dashing Dinos](http://store.steampowered.com/app/455290/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/9Wc6i/
**[Mortificatio](http://store.steampowered.com/app/585220/)** | https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/rKOtj/

7 years ago