https://github.com/christiansilvermoon/steam-screenshot-linker

A shell script to make finding your Steam Screenshots on Linux less difficult
https://github.com/christiansilvermoon/steam-screenshot-linker

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A shell script to make finding your Steam Screenshots on Linux less difficult

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/christiansilvermoon/steam-screenshot-linker
• Owner: ChristianSilvermoon
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2022-07-12T13:14:54.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-16T04:51:08.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-07-09T10:27:19.769Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: linux, quality-of-life, steam
• Language: Shell
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• Size: 331 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Steam Screenshot Linker

A shell script to make finding your Steam Screenshots on Linux less difficult.

![Showcase Image](./showcase.png)

Credit to [Zee66 on DeviantArt For the pony in the Terminal Background](https://www.deviantart.com/zee66/art/Terminal-Pony-2-384706996). This has nothing  to do with the project, but I felt it was important to credit art in the screencap.

## What Does This Do?

When run, **Steam Screenshot Linker** will create symbolic links for each of your games with screenhots under `~/Pictures/Screenshots/Steam/INSERT_GAME_HERE`

This will make locating your Screenshots taken with the Steam overlay for particular games FAR easier!

On first run, you will be prompted to select a User ID from the ones with data on your system.

## How Best To Use This

Once you've manually run it once to store your Steam User ID in its config, you can set it up as a cronjob to automate updating the folder.

## Where Does This Get Its Data?

All **LOCALLY**

This script works by parsing the following files

* `~/.steam/steam/libraryfolders.vdf` (To Locate all your library folders)

* `~/.steam/steam/userdata/USER_ID` (folder name; To identify valid User IDs)

* `~/.steam/steam/userdata/USER_ID/config/localconfig.vdf` (Gets account Display Name for ID Select Prompt)

* `~/.steam/steam/userdata/USER_ID/760/remote/GAME_ID` (Screenshot Folders; gives Game ID)

* Any relevant `appmanifest_GAME_ID.acf` files (Gets name of Game)

After selecting a User ID, it is stored at

`$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/steam-screenshot-linker/STEAM_UID`

for later refrence