Steam collection sync started failing yesterday

deezulboy

I've been using the sync Steam collection feature with no problems for months, but for about the past 24 hours now, every time I try it gives me an error that it was unable to sync the collection. Is this a problem that is being worked on or is there something I can do to resolve this?

Thanks!

rob006

Steam changed something yesterday and now collections are visible only to logged-in users, even if you mark it as public in your profile settings. Our bot scans collections as guest, so after this change it no longer works. We'll try to create some workaround, but I hope this is unintentional change and Steam will make public collections visible to guests again.

deezulboy

rob006 Wow that sucks. Ok thanks for the heads up!

gary5bellies

rob006 I wish I'd seen this earlier. I've just spent the day trying to get GOG Galaxy to sync with Steam. Looks like you've found the reason. Cheers matey.

rob006

gary5bellies I wish I'd seen this earlier. I've just spent the day trying to get GOG Galaxy to sync with Steam. Looks like you've found the reason.

That may be unrelated. GOG Galaxy can use authenticated endpoint - as client application they can log-in into your Steam account and fetch much more information than available in endpoints we're using.

rat_slapper

I really hope this issue will be resolved (either by Steam changing things as it was before or by GG Deals staff finding working workaround).
Now, when I cannot sync my Steam collection properly, searching for deals on this site and other related/cooperating sites is such pain in the a$$.
I gues you only appreciate things when you lack them.

rob006

I added temporary workaround. Previously we refreshed collection from 2 sources:

User profile on steamcommunity.com,
API provided by Steam.

For some reason these 2 sources have some unique games, so to be accurate as much as possible, we combined list of games from both sources.

Now first source is ignored - only games from API are synced. As a result we sync less games and some positions in your Steam collection may not be detected by GG.deals.
We don't automatically remove games from GG.deals collection, but we remove launcher info if game is no longer visible in your collection for specific platform. So if you have games that were previously synced from steamcommunity.com (source 1. - ignored for now) but they are not visible in API (source 2. - working), they will still be in your collection, but Steam will disappear from list o launchers for this position (you can still add it manually if you want):

g31W

It's failing again

rob006

g31W Works fine for me. I don't see any errors for your account either.

TandborsteN

I seem to have big issues with syncing feature limited games, for example Phoenix Strike I've had in my library since 9th of april and it still hasn't synced.

Quoyque

Syncing limited games is broken since 9 march... For me it's one of the most important thing on gg.deals especially when this database is connected with other service from owner.
I suggest to implement manualy syncing with data from https://store.steampowered.com/dynamicstore/userdata/
This method was used by steamprices.com and allow to sync even DLC ID's (!)

rob006

I added fix that should enable syncing profile limited games from Steam collection. At this point Steam collection synchronization should work almost the same as before changes made by Steam, so I'm marking this as solved. There is still a room for improvement, but this will rather be handled by integration with tools like Playnite, or a browser extension that would make use of https://store.steampowered.com/dynamicstore/userdata/.

Playnite integration with gg.deals
Create a GG.deals browser extension/ userscript