Automatically fill a lancache with the content of your choosing, so that subsequent downloads for the same content will be served from the lancache, improving speeds and reducing load on your internet connection.
- Queue the top 1 to 100 popular apps on Steam, or just the free apps
- Queue a specific app by ID
- Choose which platform(s) to download an app for
- Use multiple Steam accounts to download apps
- See which apps downloaded successfully
- See which apps failed, and what the error message was
- Retry downloading of failed apps
- A working lancache
- Ubuntu 16.04 x64, configured to download via the lancache
- Sufficient disk space to (temporarily) store the downloaded content
- PHP 7.0
git clone https://github.com/zeropingheroes/lancache-autofill.git
cd lancache-autofill
sudo ./install.sh
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Install and initialise SteamCMD:
./lancache-autofill steam:initialise
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Set the default Steam account to be used when queueing apps for download:
nano .env
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Search for the apps you wish to download to find their app ID:
./lancache-autofill steam:search-apps "team fortress 2"
440 Team Fortress 2 [...]
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Queue the app for download by ID:
./lancache-autofill steam:queue-app 440
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Authorise your Steam account:
./lancache-autofill steam:authorise-account
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Start downloading items in the download queue:
./lancache-autofill steam:start-downloading
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View the download queue to see the status of the downloads:
./lancache-autofill steam:show-queue
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Clear the temporary download location:
./lancache-autofill app:initialise-downloads-directory
app:initialise-database
- Initialise the database.
app:initialise-downloads-directory
- Initialise the downloads directory.
steam:initialise
- Install and initialise SteamCMD
steam:authorise-account [account]
- Authorise a Steam account to allow download of apps in their library.
- If no account is specified, you will be prompted for the username
steam:queue-app appid [appid, appid...] [--windows] [--osx] [--linux]
- Queue one or more Steam apps for downloading.
- Optionally the platform(s) to download can be specified as options
- If no platform option is specified, the Windows version of the app will be queued
steam:queue-popular-apps [top=100] [--free] [--windows] [--osx] [--linux]
- Queue the top most popular apps on Steam in the past 2 weeeks
- Optionally
- Only queue top X apps (default 100)
- Only queue free apps
- Specify the platform(s) to download (default - windows)
steam:dequeue [--app_id=] [--platform=] [--status=] [--message=]
- Dequeue a items from the download queue.
- Optionally specify any combination of app ID, platform, status and message
- Calling with no arguments clears the queue
steam:requeue [status=failed] [--message=]
- Requeue failed and/or completed items in the download queue.
- By default failed items are requeued
- Optionally only requeue items whose message contains the specified value
steam:search-apps name
- Search Steam apps by name.
steam:show-queue [status]
- Show the Steam app download queue.
- Optionally only show items with specified status
- Available statuses are: queued, failed, completed
steam:start-downloading
- Start downloading the Steam apps in the queue.
- The account(s) specified in the queue to download from are checked before any app downloads are attempted
steam:update-app-list
- Get the latest list of apps from Steam.
- Steam is the only supported platform currently
- Paid apps can only be cached with access to a Steam account that owns them
- No support for forcing download of 32 bit apps
- Yes, it's written in PHP. No shame.