steam-presence: A script that takes the game you're playing on steam and displays it on discord

I just found this cool utility a couple days ago and have found that it’s a great solution to sandboxed versions of Discord being unable to provide rich presence. It’s a Python script that queries the Steam web API to get info to forward to Discord’s API. The “installer” sets up a systemd service that will auto-run the script for you.

It requires you to get your own Steam API key which was a trivial, though slightly buggy, process for me. You can optionally use your own Discord app ID, or just use the one owned by the guy that created this script.

hand,
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Looks neat!

PoorPocketsMcNewHold,

Strongly recommend it. It even automatically fetches icons for the games via SteamGridDB (Even if they could totally just fetch it from Steam). Ain’t really a fix for games using Proton, however, or making sandboxed Discord versions to get those local RPC implementation, just an alternative and more efficient way to show what you play on Steam.

d3Xt3r,

Ain’t really a fix for games using Proton

Wdym? It works fine for Proton games as well.

PoorPocketsMcNewHold,

It doesn’t make use of the games original Discord RPC integrations, and their more-in-depth game details that it can bring. See github.com/…/Enabling-Discord-Rich-Presence or github.com/EnderIce2/rpc-bridge for ways to fix it.

zelifcam, (edited )
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    platypode,
    @platypode@sh.itjust.works avatar

    For many people, socialization is a core part of gaming, and Discord is far and away the most common platform for that socialization.

    krolden,
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    Steam has chat

    helenslunch,
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    Steam chat is complete garbo

    krolden,
    @krolden@lemmy.ml avatar

    How so

    PoorPocketsMcNewHold,
    • Desktop only (The phone app is somehow worse then the Discord app, see the Steam Chat rating).
    • No bots or advanced moderation
    • Steam restricted Are enough reason why it’s usage has been limited. Still decent to use for a couple of people but lackluster to what Discord propose.
    platypode,
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    It’s not a matter of what people can use, but what people do use. Like it or not, Discord is the de facto standard, and it’s a lot easier to install workarounds that make Discord usable on Linux than it is to convince all your friends to switch platforms.

    whou,

    I strongly disagree. Multiple times I’ve been playing a game and a friend saw my Discord status and chatted with me about it. It’s just another way for my friends to see my interests, nothing new on the internet.

    Would I want this status to be displayed somewhere else (especially a more FOSSy place)? Hell yeah. But there isn’t any, and the people that rarely talk to me and are into gaming, aren’t, unfortunately, on anywhere else but Discord.

    pelotron,
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    Valve and Glorious Eggroll are going to be pissed when they find out how little Microsoft and Windows game developers care about them.

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