Preface: This article records actual deployment issues and best practices encountered while running ASF (ArchiSteamFarm). Covered contents: Pitfall guides for required bot fields, elegantly extracting Steam game ID lists (including JS scripts), and utilizing the ASFEnhance plugin to fully automate Winter Sale farming workloads.

📅 Part I: Bot Generation Walkthroughs

Generating an ASF bot seems straightforward, but many find themselves stuck on “Capchas” and “Required Field terms”.

1. The Holy Trinity of Required Terms

When creating bots inside the Web UI, only focus on these three terms; leave others blank safely:

  1. Name: The filename for bot profiles (Purely alphanumeric, e.g., bot1 or steam_main).
  2. SteamLogin: Your Steam login account name (Note: Not the profile nickname).
  3. SteamPassword: Your login password.
  4. Enabled: Must check (or set to true).

JSON Reference Config:

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{
  "Enabled": true,
  "SteamLogin": "Your Account Name",
  "SteamPassword": "Your Password"
}

2. Solving Steam Guard (2FA)

Fresh starts trigger verification hold-ups. ASF has no popup warnings; you MUST input manually inside the Command Panel.

  • Instruction Format: input [Bot_Name] [Verification_Code]
  • Example: input bot1 R5D3X

Tip: If utilizing email verifications, act fast! For Timeout errors, prompt restart [Bot_Name] to cycle starts before retrying.

🎮 Part II: Pure Game ID Extractor Setup

If a bot logins but idles (prompting We don't have anything to farm), it’s because GamesPlayedWhileIdle isn’t configured. Manual lookup takes long, whereas Steam strictly caps concurrent farming up to 32 items.

Below is a Browser Console Script designed to extract owned game IDs in one-click, creating ASF compliant configurations accurately.

1. Extractor Script (Runs on Browser F12 Console)

Log into your Steam profile page (Games List index), press F12 to trigger Console tab, and paste the code below:

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// === ASF Game ID Extractor Script (Full Reveal) ===
(function() {
    console.log("🔍 Scanning webpage sources...");
    var html = document.documentElement.innerHTML;
    var games = [];

    // Attempting Source Data Triggers
    var match = html.match(/var rgGames = (\[.*?\]);/);
    if (match && match[1]) {
        try {
            games = JSON.parse(match[1]).map(g => ({
                id: g.appid,
                name: g.name,
                hours: g.hours_forever ? parseFloat(g.hours_forever.replace(',', '')) : 0
            }));
        } catch (e) {}
    }

    // If source extract fails, fallback onto DOM scrape
    if (games.length === 0) {
        var rows = document.querySelectorAll('.gameListRow');
        rows.forEach(row => {
            var id = row.id.replace('game_', '');
            var name = row.querySelector('.gameListRowItemName')?.textContent.trim() || "Unknown";
            if (id) games.push({ id: parseInt(id), name: name, hours: 0 });
        });
    }

    if (games.length === 0) return console.error("❌ No games found, please refresh page to retry.");

    // Print review table benchmarks
    console.table(games.map(g => ({ "ID": g.id, "GameName": g.name })));

    // Generate ASF Code bundles
    var allIDs = games.map(g => g.id);
    console.log("\n🚀 === Full ID Config Code (Pure Digits) === 🚀");
    console.log(`"GamesPlayedWhileIdle": ${JSON.stringify(allIDs)},`);
})();

2. Filtering Strategy

Script lists all owned titles. For keeping profile aesthetics high standard, consider manually weeding out obscure game items, retaining AAA blockbusters or populated esports titles.

Selected Config benchmark (32 item demo): (Involves CS2, Witcher 3, HOI4, Stellaris, 2077 etc)

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"GamesPlayedWhileIdle": [
    281990, 394360, 275850, 1158310, 1145360, 413150, 391540, 365670, 
    8500, 346110, 242760, 424840, 1504980, 349040, 730, 1085660, 
    1608450, 2149010, 407530, 582660, 49520, 2921380, 3032020, 2457890, 
    1025440, 1368870, 1659040, 2928340, 2071500, 624690, 610570, 489630
],

Paste these code strips insideBot configuration JSON profiles to activate.

❄️ Part III: Sale Automations (ASFEnhance)

Free stickers and cards flood Winter Sales, which is tedious to claim manually. Utilizing the ASFEnhance plugin solves automation bottlenecks.

1. Core Instructions (Manual edition)

  • Vote (Claim Cards): WV (Winter Vote)
  • Claim Sticker: CI (Claim Item)

Modify the Global Config, locating ASFEnhance sections. Key factor: AutoClaimItemBotNames MUST input bot names you wish automatically triggered, segregating multiple names utilizing English commas.

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    "ASFEnhance": {
        "EULA": true,
        "Statistic": true,
        "AutoClaimItemBotNames": "bot1,bot2", 
        "AutoClaimItemPeriod": 60
    }

Under these settings, plugins cycle checkpoints every 60 mins examining and claiming free inventories automatically, yielding absolute hands-free loops accurately.

🔍 Part IV: Logging Filter Tips

Under Docker matrixes, verifying whether bots aren’t idles gets messy viewing raw scrolling logs. Utilize grep triggers precise screeners safely:

  • View specific bot behaviors: docker logs asf --tail 50 | grep "Your_Bot_Name" (Example: check bot1 logs)
  • Check whether games farm successfully: docker logs asf --tail 100 | grep "Your_Bot_Name" | grep "Playing" (Echoing Playing selected GamesPlayedWhileIdle validates idles farming setups succeed accurately)

📝 Summary

  1. Fresh ASF bot generations require solving JSON and 2FA capchas holds.
  2. Utilize JS script extractor; holding inside 32 item cap bounds looks aesthetics compliant.
  3. Configure AutoClaimItemBotNames inside ASFEnhance to wave goodbye claimed sticker struggles manually.
  4. Leverage Docker logging filters to control bot dynamics timely.

Happy winter farming, and card harvesting! 🚀