https://playingtux.com/en/tags/internationales-forum/ Recent content in Internationales Forum on PlayingTux Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Fri, 14 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://playingtux.com/en/articles/2015/11/using-bash-check-games-steam-linux-availibility/ Sat, 21 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://playingtux.com/en/articles/2015/11/using-bash-check-games-steam-linux-availibility/ <p>Inspired by <a class="link" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/3tl94r/i_just_made_a_tool_to_notify_you_when_grid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >this post on reddit</a>, I wrote a simple bash-oneliner to check for availibility of a specific game/program on <strong>Steam</strong>. <strong>Requirements:</strong></p> <ol> <li><strong>wget</strong>, <strong>curl</strong> or an equal tool</li> <li>the numerical <strong>appid</strong> for the game/program to check from steam</li> <li>the <strong>JSON</strong>-tool <a class="link" href="http://stedolan.github.io/jq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >jq</a> (most likely included in your distro)</li> </ol> <p>With these requirements fulfilled, you can check the linux-availibility from command-line like this: <code>wget http://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails?appids=255220 -O - | jq '.[] | { name: .data.name , linux: .data.platforms.linux }'</code> Output:</p>