Steam Stats

Wiki Page for the explanation for Steam Stats

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Steam Stats

It comes with 2 Features:

• Steam User Summary
• Recently Played Games (Last 2 Weeks)

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Steam User Summary

• User Stats has the functionality to fetch the steam user data from steam which includes personaname, profileurl, avatar, personastate, etc.
• The fetched data is then processed and used to generate a dynamic card using below elements
  • personaname
  • personastate
  • avatarfull
  • loccountrycode
  • lastlogoff
  • timecreated
  • gameextrainfo
• The card is generated using html which is then converted to a image format(png) so that it can be embedded in the markdown file as it doesn't support html rendering

Note: Unfortunately, Steam Web API doesn't support Web Sockets which prohibits me from implementing the real-time updates to sync the User Status to GitHub. And doing it through API calls is a very bad idea.

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Recently Played Games

• This part of the feature is to fetch a list of games a steam player has played in the last two weeks
• The fetched elements include below which are processed to generate a dynamic card like steam user summary
  • appid
  • name
  • playtime_2weeks
  • img_icon_url
• Same implementation here as well for the conversion of html code to png for embedding it to markdown file

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Examples for these features can be found here