[CLI] STEAM WORKSHOP DOWNLOADER


PowerGod

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UPDATE: THIS DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE :( The reason is explained in the next post.
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STEAM WORKSHOP is the official repository for game MODS on STEAM.
The only way to download those MODS is to own the game on STEAM.

So, if you have a game from another store, like GOG, and, in the worst case, all the MODS are only present on STEAM, you will miss a lot of contents...

There is a site anyway that can download a WORKSHOP LINK for you, even if it doesn't support all the games, and not all the MODS are downloadable outside STEAM (that's a game developer choice).

I made 2 scripts to download MODS from STEAM WORKSHOP, so them can be used with games from others stores, like GOG.

"get_steamworkshop.sh" - Downloads a MOD and its preview image, given the link or the ID.
"get_steamworkshop_links.sh" - Lists all the MOD links found starting from the actual WORKSHOP page, till the last one.

Those 2 can be combined to download ALL the MODS of a game.

This is an example for "Megaquarium" (it has no MOD repository outside of STEAM).

Code:
$ ./get_steamworkshop_links.sh "https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=600480&actualsort=mostrecent&browsesort=mostrecent&p=1"
Start Page = 1
Max Page = 9
Min Page = 1
READING PAGE 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Total links found = 248
Links saved in: "mod-links.txt"

$ cat mod-links.txt | xargs -n 1 ./get_steamworkshop.sh
REQUESTING ID 2073021544  -> IMAGE  -> UUID  -> STATUS.. -> DOWNLOADING -> DONE ("2073021544_goblin_shark.zip")
REQUESTING ID 2075266329  -> IMAGE  -> UUID  -> STATUS.. -> DOWNLOADING -> DONE ("2075266329_blue_marlin.zip")
REQUESTING ID 2075817924  -> IMAGE  -> UUID  -> STATUS.. -> DOWNLOADING -> DONE ("2075817924_bubble_technology_tank_depth.zip")
REQUESTING ID 2077022258  -> IMAGE


You can find the scripts in this project:
 
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I forgot about this thread... and the BAD news is that Steam sent a "Cease and Desist" letter to the site... so, "steamworkshopdownloader.io" is no more... :mad:

Now the only way to get MODs from the Workshop is by using their official tool "SteamCMD", that can also connect as an anonymous user... but there's a catch, this way can be accessed only repositories without restrictions...

Example:
Megaquarium MODs have no restrictions, so can be downloaded as an anonymous user. There's no need to own the game on Steam to get its MODs.
Starship Troopers: Terran Command MODs instead (as of now), have restrictions, and can be downloaded only using an account that own the game on Steam.


The "get_steamworkshop_links.sh" was updated last year to be able to generate also a script file runnable by SteamCMD.
 
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