Get your Steam Trading Cards the Easy Way

Idle Master is an application that automatically idles your Steam games to extract all of your available Steam Trading Cards. The application automatically finds the games you have drops remaining in, and idles those games one by one until all of your trading cards are in your inventory. This way, you can start up the program and go to sleep / work / away and come back to an inventory full of cards.

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Idle Master Website[www.steamidlemaster.com]
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Idle Master Python (Linux / OSX)[github.com]

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Idle Master 1.4.1 Released

January 5, 2017 - jshackles | 157 Comments

Idle Master version 1.4.1 has been released. This release includes the following changes:

Fixed a bug that caused users badge pages not to load correctly.
Updated dependencies and localization.

This release is available for download from www.SteamIdleMaster.com and is also available on Github[github.com]. The source code for this release is also available on Github[github.com].

You can update your existing Idle Master program by overwriting it with the files from this release.

Before anyone gets too excited, this is just a bugfix release that adds no new features. I doubt I'll be adding any new features to the program, but this was an easy bug to fix and it was affecting a lot of users so I decided to do a maintenance release. This doesn't mean the project is less dead, just on life support.

Idle Master Discontinued

March 2, 2016 - jshackles | 499 Comments

In light of the upcoming Steam Marketplace changes next week, I’ve decided to discontinue working on and supporting Steam Idle Master. As someone who is unable to use the mobile authenticator, having trading cards put on hold for 15 days prior to being listed in the market makes the proposition of selling them a difficult one. As most of you know, the value of each card can fluctuate wildly in that amount of time.

This, bundled with additional security measures Valve has put in place are a good step forward in that they make Steam more safe for its users. For me personally, the cost of this safety is inconvenience. For people in my position who are unable to use the mobile authenticator, this effectively makes idling for and selling Steam Trading Cards a futile effort.

Idle Master started out as and always has been a hobby project. My personal attitude towards it has always been “It’s something I built for myself that I find useful, others probably will too”. The first part of that statement, however, is no longer true.

Going forward: I will be updating the Idle Master homepage so that the “Download” button links directly to the portable version of Idle Master. The homepage will remain online for the foreseeable future, but I’ll be adding a statement to the site that the program has been discontinued and is no longer being supported.

The source code for Idle Master is and will remain available on Github under an open source license.

Finally, I would like to say “Thank you” to all of Idle Master’s users and fans. Without you, a project like this couldn’t have been as successful as it was. For those of you who this security change won’t affect: happy idling in the future!

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MrL0G1C

Aug 26, 2018 @ 11:20am

Note: Idle Master is no longer working, use Idle Master Extended or other idlers instead. Do not post new threads without reading previous relevant threads first.