steam-presence: A script that takes the game you're playing on steam and displays it on discord
steam-presence: A script that takes the game you're playing on steam and displays it on discord
GitHub - JustTemmie/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.
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.
For many people, socialization is a core part of gaming, and Discord is far and away the most common platform for that socialization.
Steam has chat
Valve and Glorious Eggroll are going to be pissed when they find out how little Microsoft and Windows game developers care about them.