The steam-cli is a tool that I built

1. to interact with the steam-api and answer questions such as, I'm playing games with a group of friends. What games do we all own?
2. to learn Rust, so I if I'm not following best practices, feel free to point them out or submit a PR

Usage

The steam-cli primarily runs as a cli in the terminal, but it can also run as a discord bot. The instructions below are for running it in the terminal.

Environment Variables

Steam API Key

For both development and you'll need a STEAM_API_KEY. You can generate one using your steam account on the steamstore.

USER_STEAM_ID

If you want to use the --by-name/-b flag, then you'll need to set your USER_STEAM_ID. This is used in order to grab your friends list to resolve persona names into steam ids.

You can also get a lot of the same functionality by just setting environment variables for your friends, but this way you only need to set up one envionment variable instead of several.

Rust

Rust is required for development and installation. To install rust, use rustup.

At some point, I will include a binary that be run directly, but I don't want to do the work to validate cross platform validation.

Running it

If you want to run it without adding the binary to your path you can use cargo run <args>.

If you want to run it locally, you should use ./install-locally.sh.

I believe this will work on unix systems like MacOS and Linux. I'm not sure if this will work on Windows, but you should still be able to run it using cargo run.