[Tool] Steam Group Players

[Sghirate]

Hiho!

Some of the Community groups I am in select a player of the week depending on hours spend playing a certain game. Sadly Steam itself doesn't really provide a function to do that, so I wrote a little program for it.

Homepage
If you want to download the program or have a peek at the source code you can do so on the
CodePlex Project Page

Important!

• Consider the whole thing to be Beta (at best). Meaning: There will be bugs, the thing might crash, you might get incomplete data!
• The program uses C# .Net targeting WPF - meaning, it is Windows only (sorry to all Mac/Linux users)
• It can only handle groups with up to 1.000 Members (if anybody knows a way to get more than 1.000 members via Web API, please do tell)
• The program expects the short name of a group as input, not the full name.
  Example (if we want info on the group "for UNCUT!"):

  foruncut

• You can also get info on official game groups, using the "game:"-prefix
  Example (if we want info on Botanicula's official group):

  game:Botanicula

• Depending on group size and your Internet connection speed, the download might take a while
• The program might/will not return game lists for all group members. If the Web API doesn't return a game list for a user or there is a formatting error somewhere inside the xml-Data . . . well, the user will show up without any games.
• It would most certainly be better to have something like this implemented into Steam Community itself *looking at Valve* - just saying . . .

Usage

• Download the newest release from the link above
• Start the program (double-click the *.exe-file)
• Enter the short name of the group into the Group abbreviation field.
• Click on Load and wait.
• When the group is loaded (check the bar under the group name for that) you can select a group to sort by, by either clicking the triangle-button on the far left of the Order by box or by dragging a game from a player's games list into the Order by box)

History

• 2012-06-04: Version 0.9: Initial release

rgds Sghi'

[heffebaycay]

Hello,

Originally Posted by Sghirate

• It can only handle groups with up to 1.000 Members (if anybody knows a way to get more than 1.000 members via Web API, please do tell)

There is currently no WebAPI that would allow you to get information about a Community group.

The only feed available is the one you're already using: http://steamcommunity.com/games/TF2/...listxml/?xml=1

However, this feed can give you the full member list of a group (and not only 1000 as you said). Check out the "nextPageLink" and "previousPageLink" elements in the feed returned here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/TF2/...xml/?xml=1&p=2

[SiPlus.c]

Originally Posted by Sghirate

The program uses C# .Net targeting WPF - meaning, it is Windows only (sorry to all Mac/Linux users)

Mono.

[Sghirate]

@heffebaycay:
THANKS! Didn't know about the paging in the xml output before - stupid me...

@SiPlus.c:
I know Mono, but note the three annoying letters WPF - afaik there is still no WPF (/xaml) implementation in Mono. Thus requiring a complete rewrite of the UI in order to run that thing in Mono.

rgds Sghi'