Monitor and annoy your friends via text message when they start playing DOTA.
- Steam API key.
- Twilio Account.
- Python 3.3+, because it's 2015.
- Requests.
- Twilio API client.
- Create a virtual environment
- Activate the environment
- Run
pip install requirements.txt - Create a
config.jsonfile that looks something like this:
{
"steam_key": "YOUR_STEAM_KEY_HERE",
"twilio_sid": "YOUR_TWILIO_SID_HERE",
"twilio_auth_token": "YOUR_TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN_HERE",
"twilio_number": "YOUR_TWILIO_NUMBER_HERE_WITH_COUNTRY_CODE",
"debug": false, // Toggles if we send real messages or not. Optional, defaults to false.
"poll_rate": 60, // Determines how often we hit the Steam APIs. Optional, defaults to 60
"message_rate": 300, // Determines how often we message someone. Optional, defaults to 300
"messages": [
"Hey Dummy, stop playing {game}.",
"Looks like you're playing {game}, stop it {name}.",
"You know {name}, instead of playing {game}, you could literally be doing anything else.",
"Stop playing {game} {name}!!!",
"{name}, you know you're not being paid to play {game} right?"
],
"players": [{
"name": "Josh",
"phone_number": "NUMBER_TO_TEXT_HERE_WITH_COUNTRY_CODE",
"steam_id": "STEAM_ID_HERE"
}, {
"name": "Alan",
"phone_number": "NUMBER_TO_TEXT_HERE_WITH_COUNTRY_CODE",
"steam_id": "STEAM_ID_HERE"
}],
"game_list": ["DOTA", "Civilization", "Team Fortress", "Counter-Strike"]
}- Phone numbers have to include their country code and can only have numbers in them, i.e. 15556667777
- Steam IDs can be found by going to your friend's steam profile and looking at the URL.
- If they don't have a vanity url it will look like this:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/STEAM_ID_HERE/ - If they have a vanity URL you can get their Steam ID by using the
SteamService.resolve_vanity_urlmethod. - In the future I'll enable the ability to put a vanity URL in the config file, and we'll auto convert it to a steam id.
- If they don't have a vanity url it will look like this: