Suggestion: take Steam ID from user folder

[Didier Renard]

Hey @Dooque! First of all, great job in pulling this tool down! 🙂 Thank you for that!

Disclaimer: Haven't used your tool yet, just took a look at the source code and the screenshots on the readme file, so maybe I'm missing something when commenting.

Disclaimer 2: I'm from Argentina as well, but since you wrote both the code and readmes in English, I comment in English as well to be consistent. Also, you never know who'll be helping you out in the future!

So, what I see is that you instruct the user to write his/her Steam ID on the configuration file. What you could do is read the folder names from C:\Users\<user>\Games\Age of Empires 2 DE. There, you have a folder for each Steam ID that has played AoE on the PC.

So, you could get the list of Steam IDs doing something like:

import os

def  _get_local_steam_ids():
    steam_ids = []
    aoe_path = os.path.join(os.environ['USERPROFILE'], 'Games', 'Age of Empires 2 DE')

    for dir in os.listdir(aoe_path):
        steam_id = None
        try:
            steam_id = int(dir)
        except ValueError:
            pass
        if steam_id is not None and steam_id > 0:
            steam_ids.append(steam_id)

    return steam_ids

And that way, we save the user from having to do it on its own!

[Gonzalo Bonigo]

Hi, that's really a great idea, how I didn't realize. I'll implement it for sure. If you wanna contribute just let me know and I'll add you.

[Didier Renard]

Hey - glad you liked it 🙂

I can't commit to contributing as I'm also developing a project of my own (will make open source when I stop being ashamed of its code haha) but I don't mind being added and trying to sneak some snippets every now and then 🙂.