How to monitor steam api?

[webDev]

Hello!

im wondering what is best practies for monitoring steam api trade offer change state trade_offer_state, it works by steam api key. do i need send every like 1 minute request to this endpoint or there are some better practies and do i need use proxy for that?

im using https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_Web_API/IEconService#CEcon_TradeOffer

in advance thank you for answering.

[Dr. McKay]

15 hours ago, webDev said:

do i need send every like 1 minute request to this endpoint

Pretty much. You can also use node-steam-user to get notifications when your count of pending trade offers changes, which you can use to trigger a poll. steam-tradeoffer-manager works this way.