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Steam Credentials

SGI needs your Steam credentials for the Card Farming and Trading Card Manager features.

Steam credentials are used to verify which of your games have card drops remaining, as well as fetching and listing your trading cards on the Steam market.

SGI offers both a Manual Method and an Automated Method (PRO) for providing your Steam credentials.

Do not share these credentials with anyone

These credentials allow limited access to your Steam account, but they do not allow access to changing your password, email address, or other sensitive information

You must get your cookies from https://steamcommunity.com/ and not https://store.steampowered.com/

Manual Method

Log In to the Steam Community Website

Open your browser and log in to https://steamcommunity.com/ with the account you use with SGI

Find Your Steam Cookies

Press "F12" to open the Developer Tools

Navigate to the "Application" tab (or "Storage" on Firefox)

Under "Cookies", select https://steamcommunity.com/

Copy the "value" for both "sessionid" and "steamLoginSecure"

OPTIONAL: If you have either a "steamParental" or "steamMachineAuth" cookie, you will need to copy its "value" as well

Add Credentials to SGI

Paste your credentials into the appropriate fields and click Save

Reauthentication

Steam credentials expire after a certain period of time. When this happens, repeat the steps above

Signing Out

To clear your stored credentials, click the Clear button

Automated Method

This method will not work if you have Family View enabled on your Steam account. You must disable Family View to use this method.

Sign In via Steam

Click Sign In via Steam and sign in to your Steam account in the new window via:

  • Username and password
  • Scanning the QR Code

Once signed in, SGI will automatically retrieve your sessionid and steamLoginSecure cookies and close the window

Reauthentication

Steam credentials expire after a certain period of time. SGI will attempt to automatically refresh your credentials when this happens. If automatic validation does happen to fail, you can still manually click Reauthenticate and your credentials will be refreshed automatically

Signing Out

To clear your stored credentials, or to sign in to another account, click the Sign Out button