request has been deprecated

[lll]

request has been deprecated, so is planned to switch to another requests lib?

[Dr. McKay]

At some point, probably.

[lll]

 

and another question, why the cookie jar is not used, which is passed in request.defaults

export default class Bot {
    jar = request.jar();

    request = request.defaults({
        jar: this.jar,
        headers: {
            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36'
        }
    });

    constructor(details, db) {
        this.community = new SteamCommunity({
            request: this.request
        });
    }
}

 

after login and several requests, I can’t get Steam cookies in jar

[Dr. McKay]

Probably because it needs to be this.jar = request.jar()

[lll]

16 hours ago, Dr. McKay said:

Probably because it needs to be this.jar = request.jar()

no, this class field is not initialized through the constructor, so this is not needed

this code is equivalent of

export default class Bot {
    constructor(details, db) {
        this.jar = request.jar();
        this.request = request.defaults({
            jar: this.jar,
            headers: {
                'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36'
            }
        });
        this.community = new SteamCommunity({
            request: this.request
        });
    }
}

 

[Dr. McKay]

Oh, I see what you're doing. Didn't look at the code super closely.

node-steamcommunity doesn't currently support supplying your own cookie jar. I can't officially support this, but if you want to use node-steamcommunity's cookie jar for other purposes, you can do something like this:

this.community = new SteamCommunity();
this.jar = this.community._jar;

This is liable to break in a future release, but it will work.

Also, if you want to supply your own user-agent, you need to supply it to the options object as userAgent. Specifying it as a default header in a passed-in request instance won't work.

[lll]

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