Bioruebe's Trading Card Bot Availability Checker (BioTC)
About
Bioruebe’s Trading Card Bot Availability Checker (BioTC) is a small console application to simplify trading Steam Trading Cards with the SteamCardExchange bot.
SteamCardExchange provides an online interface to check for available trading cards. Comparing your own card to the bot’s inventory is a lengthy process though. BioTC automatizes it for you.
How to
First enter your Custom URL name into the SteamID.txt file. If you are unsure what it is, look at the Edit Profile page or open your public Steam profile and copy the part after id/. (Note: Your Steam profile and inventory must be set to public, otherwise BioTC will not work.) From now on you can just start BioTC witth a click on the main executable. After a few seconds of waiting, depending on your internet connection speed, the results are printed to the console window as well as opened automatically as a HTML file in your standard browser.
A short tutorial and feature presentation is available on YouTube.
Development
The original version of BioTC used the programming language Haxe, but has been superseded by a Python-based implementation as the web request libraries were not working along well with modern websites. The current version 3.0 makes heavy use of asynchronous HTTP requests based on aiohttp, with PyQuery as the HTML parser. The final HTML result page is built with the help of the Bulma CSS Framework and filled with data by the Jinja2 templating engine.
BioTC is platform independent but only tested on Windows yet. For more information please take a look at the Github repository.