Steam Sales Checker (via Big Picture data feeds)

steamsales.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import json
import os
import requests
import time

debug = False
debug_path = 'debug'


def log_sales_data(sales, filename):
    # Create dr to log sales for debug purposes
    if not os.path.exists(debug_path):
        os.makedirs(debug_path)

    # Log specified data
    with open("{}/{}-{}.json".format(debug_path,
            time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M', time.localtime()),
            filename), "w+") as f:
        json.dump(sales, f, sort_keys=True, indent=2)


def get_featured():
    sales_url = "http://store.steampowered.com/api/featured/?l=english"
    try:
        sales = requests.get(sales_url).json()
    except:
        sales = {}

    if debug:
        log_sales_data(sales, "featured")

    return sales


def get_featuredcategories():
    sales_url = "http://store.steampowered.com/api/featuredcategories/?l=english"
    try:
        sales = requests.get(sales_url).json()
    except:
        sales = {}

    if debug:
        log_sales_data(sales, "featuredcategories")

    return sales


def get_sales():
    apps_url = "http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails/?appids="
    # Unusable categories
    skips = ["coming_soon", "genres", "trailerslideshow", "status"]

    # Fetch data
    data = get_featuredcategories()
    flash_data = get_featured()

    # Break if either return empty - might be unnecessary
    if not data or not flash_data:
        return {}

    # Aggregate data
    fetchtime = int(time.time())
    data["flash"] = {}
    data["flash"]["name"] = "Flash Sales"
    data["flash"]["items"] = []
    data["featured"] = {}
    data["featured"]["name"] = "Featured Sales"
    data["featured"]["items"] = []
    for item in flash_data["large_capsules"]:
        if "discount_expiration" not in item.keys():
            item["discount_expiration"] = 9999999999
        if item["discount_expiration"] - fetchtime <= 43200:
            data["flash"]["items"].append(item)
        else:
            data["featured"]["items"].append(item)

    # Mask Data
    data = {k: v for k, v in data.items() if isinstance(v, dict)
        and k not in skips}

    if debug:
        log_sales_data(data, "data")

    # Format data
    sales = {}
    for category in data:
        if "items" not in data[category].keys():
            data[category]["items"] = []
        for item in data[category]["items"]:
            # Prepare item data
            try:
                # Bundles
                if set(["id", "url"]).issubset(set(item.keys())):
                    if not item["final_price"] and not item["discounted"]:
                        item["final_price"] = web.try_googl(item["url"])
                        item["discounted"] = True
                else:
                    # Midweek Madness, Weekend Deals, etc
                    if "url" in item.keys() and "id" not in item.keys():
                        data[category]["name"] = item["name"] or data[category]["name"]
                        item["id"] = str(item["url"])[34:-1]
                        appdata = requests.get("{}{}".format(apps_url, 
                            item["id"])).json()[str(item["id"])]["data"]
                        item["name"] = appdata["name"]
                        if "Free to Play" in appdata["genres"]:
                            item["final_price"] = 'Free to Play'
                            item["discount_percent"] = '100'
                        else:
                            item["final_price"] = appdata[
                                "price_overview"]["final"]
                            item["discount_percent"] = appdata[
                                "price_overview"]["discount_percent"]
                    item["discounted"] = True if int(item["discount_percent"]) > 0 \
                        else False
            except:
                # Unusuable Catagory e.g. Banner Announcments
                if debug:
                    print category, item
                continue
            # Add appropriate item data to sales
            if item["discounted"]:
                item["name"] = item["name"].replace(" Advertising App", "")
                item = {k: u"{}".format(v) for k, v in item.items() if k in
                    ["name", "final_price", "discount_percent"]}
                if data[category]["name"] not in sales.keys():
                    sales[data[category]["name"]] = []
                sales[data[category]["name"]].append(item)
                
    # Filter and sort items
    sales = {category: sorted([item for item in items if item["name"] != "Uninitialized"], 
        key=lambda x: x["name"]) for category, items in sales.items()}

    if debug:
        log_sales_data(sales, "sales")

    # Return usable data
    return sales


def format_sale_item(item):
    if not str(item["final_price"]).isdigit():
        return u"{}: {}".format(item["name"],
            item["final_price"])
    else:
        return u"{}: ${}.{}({}% off)".format(item["name"],
            item["final_price"][:-2],
            item["final_price"][-2:],
            item["discount_percent"])


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import codecs
    import sys
    from collections import OrderedDict

    sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout)
    sys.stderr = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stderr)

    # Get sales
    sales = get_sales()

    # If sales not returned
    if not sales:
        print("Steam Store API error, no data returned. "
            "Turn on debug and check logs for more info.")

    # Output appropriate data
    for category in OrderedDict(sorted(sales.items())):
        items = [format_sale_item(item) for item in sales[category]]
        print(u"{}:\n\t{}".format(category, u"\n\t".join(items)))

it doesnt work, idk how python works but it doesnt work at all, there was a error on line 124 for print but now it just gives me this

object address  : 000001A15B506EC0
object refcount : 2
object type     : 00007FF9F63DDA90
object type name: TypeError
object repr     : TypeError('write() argument must be str, not bytes')
lost sys.stderr

also web isnt defined

@ItsFranklinMyDudes run with python2.7 and it works. This was written 8 years ago, updating it for python3 is left as an exercise for the interested party.

@ItsFranklinMyDudes run with python2.7 and it works. This was written 8 years ago, updating it for python3 is left as an exercise for the interested party.

fuck it’s messing info, alr ty i’ll try it again