Farm playtime & trading-card drops — on autopilot
Steam Idle Bot syncs your library, idles only the games that still have cards to drop, and remembers what's finished — so every run scans less and starts faster.
Accurate, self-pruning, and readable
Most idlers blindly run every game forever. This one knows where the drops are.
Drops only where it matters
Detects which games have trading cards and how many drops remain — idles just those, never wasting a slot.
Learns over time
A persistent no-drop cache records fully-farmed games and skips them forever. Each run scans less.
Accurate by design
Verifies the Steam web session is genuinely logged in, and auto-recovers a valid session from your browser.
Readable output
Live panel of game names, cards remaining and idle time; structured report + JSON/Markdown checkpoints.
Two backends, one interface
Built-in Python client (Guard / 2FA) or a local steam-utility install — with transparent fallback.
Modern & tested
uv-managed, fully typed, 242 tests across Python 3.12–3.14. Green on every push.
Architecture & selection pipeline
An orchestrator drives a swappable backend and three card services; game selection is a funnel.
Running in under a minute
# install uv, clone & sync
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
git clone https://github.com/bernardopg/steam-idler-python.git
cd steam-idler-python && uv sync
# configure (never commit the filled .env)
cp .env.example .env # set USERNAME, PASSWORD, STEAM_API_KEY
./run.sh --dry-run # preview, no Steam contact
./run.sh # go — or ./run-gui.sh for the GUI