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# steam-export

A small cross-platform program written in Go designed to ease the
process of exporting, import and copying of Steam games.

This applications specifically copies the `appmanifest` files into
the archives. This prevents you from needing Steam to "discover" or
"check" the files.

Steam only seems to scan libraries on startup, so any changes made to
your libraries is going to require you to restart steam.

This process also seems to be much faster, and more reliable than 
Steam's built in backup tool.

Running the web server should pull up a local GUI that will allow you to
download your games, delete them and install from remote URLs or local
file paths.

Latest binaries for windows and linux are available here:

[https://git.riedstra.dev/mitch/steam-export/plain/bin/?h=binaries](
https://git.riedstra.dev/mitch/steam-export/plain/bin/?h=binaries)

`steam-export-web-windows-amd64.exe` is probably the one of interest to most
people.

Windows "smart screen" may complain about the binaries since I have not
signed them in any way. I don't currently have any plans to remedy this
since it's a niche utility. I may PGP sign a set of hashes in the future
if the additional security is warranted.

The server started when accessed remotely also allows people to download
a copy of the application to easily install games from.

Screenshots:

![main view](../plain/img/main.png)

![remote filtered view](../plain/img/filter.png)

![install window](../plain/img/install_window.png)

![download view](../plain/img/download.png)


## Building

On Windows I'm using https://www.msys2.org/ for my development environment.


### External Tools

Mostly for the frontend:

  * [Bootstrap](https://getbootstrap.com/)
  * [Clipboard.js](https://clipboardjs.com/)
  * [Tablesort](http://tristen.ca/tablesort/demo/)