Getting steam inventory

[Valvoja]

I need to request user inventories without using the https://steamcommunity.com/inventory/<steamid>/<appid> endpoint. I know this is possible but don't know how. My problem is steam rate limiting me, so I need to find another place. I've been looking into protobufs but I'm new to them but I've found some stuff that seems to be related to inventories:

steam.steammessages_inventory.steamclient.CInventory_GetInventory_Request
csgo.protobufs.econ_gcmessages_pb2.CMsgRequestInventoryRefresh
csgo.protobufs.econ_gcmessages_pb2.CMsgGCGiftedItems
CEcon_FlushInventoryCache_Request
CEcon_FlushInventoryCache_Response

I've also looked into how to use the steam inventory service as a game developer, where you could access user inventories but haven't really looked into that.

[Dr. McKay]

None of those messages are going to work for your needs, since they're only for requesting the logged in user's inventory. You can't request other users' inventories that way.

Using the HTTP endpoint is pretty much the only way.