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big fan, thanks.

The json data has always been fucky to use. Not your fault, but things like emojis and stuff in appinfo, I cant just dump and read.

I liked using "VDFparse.exe query appinfo * appid name executable installdir"

its a simple output separated by integer (appid).

I spent the last 5 hours trying to convert your file:
VDFparse appinfo > x.json ( or whatever the command is)

now I have to work with the json, I got the decoding down, but there's no commas each line, its separated by lines, its got emojis, its just a mother fucking hassle (again not mad at you just formatting challenges)

I just wish I could get the original commands back. Im sure you would if you could and it seems youve thrown those out.

Is there a way I can get that data only, or silo safe data like "app name" and path

I am unsure the proper channels to share or contact you directly to inform you.
I have built a parser to your parser, per say. Taking the output provided, then:
-reading the list of local library paths
-iterate over every game listing, pair with all library paths to find
-if installed
-where installed
-output to file/csv
I have attached a sample output and linked my repo.
Its not done but the release works, with small issues like fixing backwards slashes to forward slashes.

I dont know proper etiquette for merging/sharing releases but all credit was given to you in the readme, and if Im not following the etiquette for github im happy to amend.
cheers
output.txt
https://github.com/samfisherirl/VDF-Steam-Library-Parse-and-Validate

Apparently, there's a new VDF version

which causes this tool to fail with this error:

vdfparse --info appinfo 208650
Error while trying to parse "c:/games/steam\appcache\appinfo.vdf"

SteamAppInfo updated its parser accordingly: SteamDatabase/SteamAppInfo@b1715fa
But when I tried adding the updated AppInfo.cs, I got this error in the Github actions workflow so I think the project and maybe other files have to be updated accordingly as well.

Not sure if this is something easy to implement...

Can we get an option to convert the whole input file as one big JSON, like in the previous version?
This is the only program I found, that works exactly like I want to, but calling this exe once for each ID in my library is really slow. Sadly the previos version is also no option, cause it creates invalid JSON (unescaped backslashes and encoding issues).