Monday, June 26, 2017

Steam Card Price History

I put together a rudimentary tool that calls the Steam API and produces a distribution of prices for a given steam item.  It currently only works for Steam specific items, like cards, emoticons, or packs of cards, but it would be fairly easy to make it work for any game's marketable items.

To use the tool:
1. Go to the item's community market page.  Example: March of the Fidos
2. Copy the part of the URL after the last slash.  Example: 250110-March%20of%20the%20Fidos
3. Go to the item check page and paste into the top text box labelled "Enter the steam item name"
4. Click Submit

The result will be a distribution of executed trades for different time-frames, e.g. 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, etc and the percentage of trades that executed at that price in that time-frame.  Judging from historical prices, you can predict how long it will be to sell or buy your item at a given price.


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