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Octorious
Octorious

Reputation: 11

Why is rtime_last_played not being returned for most Steam profiles via the Steam Web API?

I'm in the process of building an app for gamers and am attempting to import and sort games from different platforms, one of which is Steam.

Using the SteamAPI, I'm able to access data just fine by calling the getownedgames endpoint for some users, and it returns the following:

{'appid': 553850, 'name': 'HELLDIVERS™ 2', 'playtime_forever': 7, 'img_icon_url': 'c3dff088e090f81d6e3d88eabbb67732647c69cf', 'has_community_visible_stats': True, 'playtime_windows_forever': 7, 'playtime_mac_forever': 0, 'playtime_linux_forever': 0, 'playtime_deck_forever': 0, 'rtime_last_played': 1707493650, 'content_descriptorids': [2, 5], 'playtime_disconnected': 0}

However, for many users, each game only returns the following:

{'appid': 2050650, 'name': 'Resident Evil 4', 'playtime_forever': 1311, 'img_icon_url': '817358b8013c55831ea10d031ef9c0b151110826', 'has_community_visible_stats': True, 'content_descriptorids': [2, 5]}

There is no difference in privacy settings between the 2 users, and the last played dates are publicly visible on their profile pages. I cannot figure out at all why, for some users, this is being brought back, and for others, it isn't brought back for any of their games. Also, note that the different platform playtimes are also not brought over for a huge number of users.

I have tried this across several accounts and ensured each has public privacy settings. I have tried to access it using both the Python Steam API and HTTP requests directly into the API. I continue to get the problem for the same users where the last played date is not being returned.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 129

Answers (1)

Joffrey
Joffrey

Reputation: 11

After some digging I think it return only rtime_last_played when called with the SteamID of the account which hold the API Key

Valve seem to have changed the privacy rules for that recently, because that was working like 6 months ago

To add to it, if you go to any public profile on the Steam community in the HTML it does not show anymore the last played value

Upvotes: 0

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