Register game before starting to idle about steam-idler HOT 8 CLOSED

Hey, thanks for opening an issue!
I think a game must first be registered on an account, which is something the bot does not do. I'm not sure if and how it would be possible to register a game beforehand but I'm going to take a look at it. Thanks for the idea :)
I'll keep this issue open so I won't forget about it and I'll keep you updated when I have more to share

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Yeah, no worries, I'll take care of it soon. I was on vacation for the past few days.

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Hii, I'm not a programmer but i manage to do it. I used the function:
https://github.com/DoctorMcKay/node-steam-user#requestfreelicenseappids-callback
so for example if you want to add csgo to your account you can add this: bot.requestFreeLicense(730);
I also add a delay between the requestFreeLicense function and the gamesPlayed function because sometimes it doesn't start the game although it was added successfully.

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Ah, very cool! Thanks for sharing :)
I'll add it soon. (If you are familiar with Git and Pull Requests you could add it yourself if you want but no stress)

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Sadly i don't know how to do that, also i did it with an older version of this app, i think it was the version 1.2 so is a little bit old..
I'm sure you can do it way better than me, but how i would do it in this version is: i would go to the bot.js file then in between the line 82 and 83 i would add a line like this: this.client.requestFreeLicense(config.playingGames); then use the setTimeout function on the line 83 (this.client.gamesPlayed(config.playingGames);). This way it will add the free games to the account that has been set on the cfg file. (which are the same as the idling games).
I know is maybe a bit confusing but i tried to explain it as good as i could. :)

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Version 1.6 is out which adds support for automatically requesting licenses.
Please let me know if I missed something!

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I see you are using the same appID list for idling and reedem the free games (which for me is good) but, keep in mind that is rate limited to 50 per hour. So if someone adds more than 50 games or changes the list to a different in less than 1 hour the game(s) would not add to the account, just a little note, it would be cool to add that to the readme file.

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Yeah, you are right, that would be a good idea. I didn't really think about that as 50 games is quite a lot.

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