Fetching steam inventory

[JustWorkHereLUL]

Hello. I need to fetch steam account inventories at a fast pace, so the normal endpoint is out of question due to high rate limits (I don't want to use proxies either). I'm looking to get the csgo inventory specificly.

Normal endpoint:
https://steamcommunity.com/inventory/<STEAMID>/<APPID>/2?l=english&count=5000

I have tried to use protobufs (cs uses protobufs to fetch inventory for the client) but passing in a different steamid still returned the inventory of the account I logged in with. It could be possible that I messed up with something since I'm new to protobufs and the library I was using. I also think I could get the inventory with this:

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/a...ry#GetAllItems

but I think this requires a publisher key which costs money. Any ideas?

[RustyS]

You can use the steam API to achieve what you are wanting, depending on how you want to do it.

Here is the code to do it in C# assuming you know how to use it,

using System.Net;
using System.IO;

public class Form1
{
    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string steamId = "1234567890";
        string apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";
        string url = "https://api.steampowered.com/IEconItems_730/GetPlayerItems/v0001/?key=" + apiKey + "&steamid=" + steamId;
        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
        HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        string responseString = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
        Console.WriteLine(responseString);
    }
}

Obviously you need your own API key from steam.

I also used CS:GO as the appid (730)

If using PHP you can achieve the same with the following code

<?php
    $steamId = "1234567890";
    $apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";
    $url = "https://api.steampowered.com/IEconItems_730/GetPlayerItems/v0001/?key=" . $apiKey . "&steamid=" . $steamId;

    $curl = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
        CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    ));
    $response = curl_exec($curl);
    curl_close($curl);
    echo $response;
?>

Remember that in PHP you need to have cURL extension enabled in your server, if you have any trouble check with your hosting provider.