Starting today, users who have opted into the Steam Client Beta will see a new version of the shopping cart when checking out on the Steam Store. These users will also be able to mark games in their library as private. Shopping Cart Updates The Steam Store's updated shopping cart includes some handy new features: Inline gifting - just in time for the holidays, you can now purchase gifts for multiple friends (and yourself) without having to make multiple purchases.
Right now, one must manually allow scraping and make profiles public, to share their data with a third party. If Valve would let developers use an API, this wouldn’t be necessary.
Now that they’re letting us hide games, the third parties will miss them, while scraping. So this seemed like the right thread to make these comments. Now, a true solution, seems more “necessary,” because of this new scenario.
The obvious solution would be to take some token as an argument to the api calls that is private to the user, which would signify a consent to share also the hidden data.
I think there already is a token like this for steam item trading, in case your profile is private?
I.e if you don’t provide that argument, share only public stuff to the caller. If you do, it’s a explicit choice by you, since you are required to provide your credentials in some form of a token.
Right now, one must manually allow scraping and make profiles public, to share their data with a third party. If Valve would let developers use an API, this wouldn’t be necessary.
Now that they’re letting us hide games, the third parties will miss them, while scraping. So this seemed like the right thread to make these comments. Now, a true solution, seems more “necessary,” because of this new scenario.
The obvious solution would be to take some token as an argument to the api calls that is private to the user, which would signify a consent to share also the hidden data.
I think there already is a token like this for steam item trading, in case your profile is private?
I.e if you don’t provide that argument, share only public stuff to the caller. If you do, it’s a explicit choice by you, since you are required to provide your credentials in some form of a token.
The problem is just that steam doesn’t have any sort of useful API