Identifying Items by item-object

[Pablo]

Hello, I want to index all Items in my inventory and dump the inventory contents in a csv file with their Item-ID, Name, Float and for non unique items(like cases and stickers) their quantity. For that I need a way to retrieve information about the item with the information I get from the node-globaloffensive inventory dump. For regular skins this isn't a problem as I can just lookup the paint_index in a collection like https://github.com/ByMykel/CSGO-API. But I dont know how to index items that aren't regular skins and dont have a paint_index. I assume that the data in the attribute array contains some information that can identify the items, but I dont know how to decode it.

{
  "attribute": [
    {
      "def_index": 113,
      "value": null,
      "value_bytes": {
        "type": "Buffer",
        "data": [
          166,
          6,
          0,
          0
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "def_index": 232,
      "value": null,
      "value_bytes": {
        "type": "Buffer",
        "data": [
          44,
          0,
          0,
          0
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "def_index": 233,
      "value": null,
      "value_bytes": {
        "type": "Buffer",
        "data": [
          7,
          0,
          0,
          0
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "equipped_state": [],
  "id": "22031624191",
  "account_id": 1180673465,
  "inventory": 8,
  "def_index": 1349,
  "quantity": null,
  "level": null,
  "quality": 4,
  "flags": 8,
  "origin": 24,
  "custom_name": null,
  "custom_desc": null,
  "interior_item": null,
  "in_use": null,
  "style": null,
  "original_id": null,
  "rarity": 1,
  "position": 8,
  "stickers": [
    {
      "slot": 0,
      "sticker_id": 1702,
      "wear": null,
      "scale": null,
      "rotation": null,
      "offset_x": null,
      "offset_y": null
    }
  ]
}

Edited 11 hours ago by Pablo

[Dr. McKay]

def_index tells you what an item is (which weapon, which case, etc) and paint index tells you what skin an item is. Everything you need is in items_game.txt in the game's vpk files.

[Pablo]

Thanks for the quick reply, the dict I use to identify the items seems to be using different def_index'. I'll try it with the items_game.txt. Is the items_game.txt file different on a per user basis or is it the same for everyone?

[Dr. McKay]

It's the same for everyone.