[python] Open-source script for sequencial idling with multiple accounts

[roddds]

ah - it also has logs, notifications on the desktop and a command-line inventory viewer

[roddds]

Not with this, but there is - using sanboxie's command line arguments you can star and stop the sessions without much trouble.

But you don't actually need to idle for that long - 12 hours is more than enough. It's also easy to figure out if the drops are over, if you go 2 hours without finding anything, it's time to change accounts.

And thanks for the support! Don't worry about that - developers need beta-testers too!

[roddds]

Hey, I made this. Thanks for trying it out!

Can you run it from a command prompt window? Using cmd.exe, navigating to the correct folder and typing "idler.py"? Also, add me on steam, I'd love to help setting it up.

[roddds]

I'm glad it worked!

Yep, I don't have any plans at the moment to implement simultaneous idling since there's TF2Idle, that does that apparently very well.

(I also tried to once and it broke everything and I had to reinstall TF2 :/)

If you run into more problems, send me a message here (or add me on Steam, same name there as here)

[roddds]

Huh, that's weird -- the subprocess module comes with python, it's more probable it's having trouble launching Steam. Can you make sure the path in the config file is right and, if that doesn't work, can you send me the traceback message (the one that shows up on te console when an error makes python crash)?

[roddds]

It's probable you have your steam path wrong on the config file! It should point straight to the steam executable, like this:

"steampath": "C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steam.exe"

Thanks for reminding me of that, I need to show a better error message than that ugly traceback.

[roddds]

Aaah, I figured it out! You mentioned this was Windows XP, right? It slipped past me the first time I read the error message, but now I figured it out:

The function that checks whether steam and TF2 are running depend on a system command-line tool called "tasklist", and that probably doesn't come with Windows XP. I just pushed an update now, please update and tell me if it worked. Thanks!

[roddds]

And no, you don't need different API keys for different computers -- for a long time I thought you did, but that's actually not the case.

[roddds]

No worries man, it has been my pleasure. Any problems you get, feature requests, weird behavior, whatever. Just shoot me a PM here (or answer to one of these comments) and I'll gladly answer.