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Steam Credentials

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

This allows SGI to verify which of your games have card drops remaining, as well as managing your Steam market listings

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.steam.com/

Steps

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

  1. Press F12 to open the Developer Tools
  2. Navigate to the Application tab (or Storage on Firefox)
  3. Under Cookies, select https://steamcommunity.com/
  4. Copy the value for both sessionid and steamLoginSecure
  5. OPTIONAL: If you have either a steamParental or steamMachineAuth cookie, you will need to copy its value as well

Steam Game Idler credentials 1

Steam Game Idler credentials 2

Add Credentials to SGI

  1. Open SGI and go to Settings → General → Steam Credentials
  2. Paste your credentials into the appropriate fields and click Save

Confirmation

  1. If successful you should see a new panel with your Steam avatar, games with drops count, and total drops remaining count
  2. If you get an error, double-check your credentials and try these steps again

Steam Game Idler credentials 3

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