Get Steam Cover Images Playnite Extension

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Get Steam Cover Images Playnite Extension

Replaces the cover image of the selected games with the Steam header image for the game. If the game is not a Steam game, the game's links will be parsed for a Steam store link to guess the game's AppID.

Setting game's covers to an internet URL may be slow to load, so enabling "Asynchronous image loading" in Playnite's settings is suggested.

I recommend first running "Tools" → "Download Metadata" with "Only download metadata for games missing them" unchecked and select only:

• Cover Image "Offical Store > IGDB"
• Links "IGDB > Offical Store"

Usually the official store already has banner sized cover images, and fetching IGDB links will ensure the games have Steam store links.

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extension.yaml

Name: Get Steam Cover Images
Author: Blake Burkhart
Version: 0.1.1
Module: steam-header-covers.ps1
Type: Script
Functions:
    - Description: Get Steam Header Images for Selected Games
      FunctionName: Update-SelectedGameCovers

steam-header-covers.ps1

$steamGuid = [Guid]"CB91DFC9-B977-43BF-8E70-55F46E410FAB"
$HEADER_URL = "http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/{0}/header.jpg"

Function Update-GameCovers ($games) {
    foreach ($game in $games) {
        $appid = $null

        if ($game.PluginId -eq $steamGuid) {
            # Use GameId for Steam games
            $appid = $game.GameId
        } else {
            # Look for a Link to a Steam Store URL for other games
            foreach ($link in $game.Links) {
                switch -regex ($link.Url) {
                    "https?://store.steampowered.com/app/(\d+)" {
                        $appid = $matches[1]
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        if (!$appid) {
            continue
        }

        # Verify that the URL doesn't 404
        $url = $HEADER_URL -f $appid
        try {
            Invoke-RestMethod -Method Head -Uri $url
        } catch {
            continue
        }

        $game.CoverImage = $url
        $PlayniteApi.Database.Games.Update($game)
    }
}
function global:Update-SelectedGameCovers {
    $selected = $PlayniteApi.MainView.SelectedGames
    $updated = Update-GameCovers $selected
    $PlayniteApi.Dialogs.ShowMessage("Updated cover image of $($updated.count) of $($selected.count) games.", "Update Complete")
}

Version 0.1.1

Updated for current versions of Playnite.

Untested, but was just an update to use $PlayniteApi.Database.Games.Update($game) instead of UpdateGame(). I had a few comments to update this and I see there is already a revision on this Gist with that change.

How to enable it? It is not .pest file.

@ataberkcemunal This extension is pretty old, some minor tweaks will be needed to work on a current version of Playnite

Does the Universal Steam Metadata addon meet your needs? I think it can download the cover image from steam? I'm not completely sure, I haven't tested it.
https://playnite.link/addons.html#Universal_Steam_Metadata