====== Idle Master ======
A program for farming [[Steam]] trading cards. It tricks Steam into thinking you are running a game when you're not, so you can get cards for games without having to play them.

===== Usage =====
==== Linux ====
You need to add some info to ''/usr/lib/steam-idle-master/settings.txt''.

I found it useful to symlink that from ''~/.config/steam-idle-master/settings.txt''

By default, it contains:
<code>
sessionid = ""
steamLogin = ""
steamparental = ""
sort = ""
</code>

To get the strings for ''sessionid'' and ''steamLogin'' you need to open you browser, make sure you're signed into Steam, then find your cookies for store.steampowered.com. The other strings aren't mandatory.

(if using [[Firefox]] got to ''about:preferences#privacy'' then select ''Show Cookies...'')

To run use ''/usr/lib/steam-idle-master/start.py'' (it uses Python 2, so ''python2 start.py'')

===== See Also =====
  * [[http://www.steamidlemaster.com/|steamidlemaster.com]]
  * [[github>jshackles/idle_master_py|idle-master-py]]
  * [[Archi Steam Farm]] - Probably a better card idler, with some extra features.

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