lukasio Posted December 9, 2016 Report Share Posted December 9, 2016 Hello, I was under the impression that the rate limit for requests to steamcommunity.com (for example to fetch someone's inventory) was about 20 per minute per ip.However, today I already start getting http 429 errors after just 4 requests (10 seconds between each request).I also noticed that multiple csgo related website are having issues today, so I was wondering if steam lowered the rate limit or if it's just a temporary thing due to steam having server issues. Also, is there a way to fetch user inventories other than using http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/steam64id/inventory/json/730/2/, that is less prone to steam server issues or rate limits. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. McKay Posted December 9, 2016 Report Share Posted December 9, 2016 Nobody knows what goes on at Valve, but the rate-limit for inventories was made much more strict yesterday. Nobody knows if it will change again in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukasio Posted December 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 Thanks for the response. It seems like the Valve changed something again. Since about an hour you can do some decent amount of requests again, only if you provide login cookies. Without I'm still getting blocked after 3 requests.Was it always like that that when you provided login cookies you could do more requests than without? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. McKay Posted December 10, 2016 Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 I don't know, but it makes sense to me. Are you requesting your own inventory while logged in, or others'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukasio Posted December 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 (edited) It doesn't seem to matter if you request your own inventory while logged in or other's, which makes sense.Best solution for now is propably to run a bot solely for the purpose of generating login cookies, and letting php or whatever use those cookies to fetch inventories. Edited December 10, 2016 by lukasio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirtieth Posted December 10, 2016 Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 1 day ago got a problem: even 5 request per 2 minutes throws 429 error for http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/steamid64/inventory/json url. Had a try with referer, cookies from main steamcommunity.com page and etc. Nothing helps. Anyone knows solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinlemon Posted December 10, 2016 Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 Ask a Steam mod for access to the new Steam API, it's been out for three years but you need to be registered! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukasio Posted December 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 It seems everyone had that problem, but since about 12h if you provide login cookies you can do a decent amount of requests again.You only need to provide steamLogin and steamLoginSecure as cookies in the header. You don't seem to need to provide any other header data like referer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirtieth Posted December 10, 2016 Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 (edited) It seems everyone had that problem, but since about 12h if you provide login cookies you can do a decent amount of requests again.You only need to provide steamLogin and steamLoginSecure as cookies in the header. You don't seem to need to provide any other header data like referer.Well I gave it a shot but it look's like steam doesn't support my cookies or what. Could you give me please an example of yours (cURL example or smth)? I have these data, but it seems like I can't send it properly:( Edited December 10, 2016 by Thirtieth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukasio Posted December 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 Check what headers chrome sends when you view someones inventory then copy data as cURL and see if that works for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwasawafag Posted December 23, 2016 Report Share Posted December 23, 2016 Ask a Steam mod for access to the new Steam API, it's been out for three years but you need to be registered! What? There's some secret API methods that's becoming available simply by request? Where can I get more info? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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