leafytracker

A set of tools to aggregate Leafy Games' developer posts for PULSAR: Lost Colony.

Requirements

• Python 3 with pip and virtualenv

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/TomRichter/leafytracker.git
$ cd leafytracker

$ virtualenv env --python=/path/to/python3
$ . env/bin/activate  # On Windows: env\Scripts\activate
(env) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Edit config.json to add Discord webhooks to pipe to, app_ids of games to watch, and user_ids of Steam News Commentors to filter by.

app_ids come from the official game ID on Steam, and can be found in many URLs (e.g., 252870 in https://store.steampowered.com/app/252870/PULSAR_Lost_Colony/)

user_ids come from the data-miniprofile attribute of a comment's author link, not actual Steam user IDs. If left empty, all comments on an article will be posted.

{
    "webhooks": [
        "https://discordapp.com/api/webhooks/123456/abc123"
    ],
    "app_ids": [
        1234567890
    ],
    "user_ids": [
        1234567890
    ]
}

Running

. bin/leafytracker

or

python3 -m leafytracker

leafytracker quits after a single pass, and is best used with a periodic execution tool like cron to check for updates regularly:

$ crontab -e

# Every 20 minutes
*/20 * * * * /path/to/leafytracker/bin/leafytracker

Important files

• leafytracker.log - Info and debug log. Always appended to, so consider log rotation to avoid large log files.
• steam.json - Tracks the latest comment ID sent from each news article to each webhook. Take care when deleting this to avoid repeat messages/spam!