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stræf Apr 13, 2015 @ 8:36pm
how to: see games marked "Not Interested"
in all likelihood when this feature was introduced a significant majority of us collectively cheered; i know i did. BUT invariably games were marked "not interested" by accident and now we do not remember them to restore them. i have poked around the nooks and crannies of the web and come up with something that works, sort of, to see these games and re-assess them.

EDIT: valve has added a way to see your ignored items through your account. https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences if you are logged in to steam on the same window you are reading this from, the link will take you straight to the page. if not it is easily accessible by clicking on your username in the top right corner of the steam window and selecting account details from the menu, then preferences from the list on the left after the page loads. this new method is much more efficient than the way detailed below.

DISCLAIMER: the following is a quick and dirty way of seeing every game you have ignored, sequentially one at a time, sorted by app id. until someone better at scripting than i comes along and writes a way to parse this information into a list (likely possible with the steam api) this is all i have to offer. if you find a better solution than this please let me know and i will update this or at least link to it. but at least this saves the tedium of repetitively selecting, copying, and pasting.

STEP 1: copy and paste the following into a blank text file and save it with a .html extension (filename.html)

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<button onclick="nxt()">Try it</button>
<script>
var nxt = function() {
var i = 0;
var rry = ***;
return function() {
if (i < rry.length) {
window.open("http://store.steampowered.com/app/"+rry[i]);
i += 1;
}
}
}();
</script>
</body>
</html>

STEP 2: log in to your steam account in your desired browser. do NOT do this in the steam client

STEP 3: go to http://store.steampowered.com/dynamicstore/userdata/ in the same browser. again do NOT do this in the steam client

STEP 4: on above listed webpage you will see a bunch of text. find (most browsers have a find function, often accessible through CTRL + F) "rgIgnoredApps"

STEP 5: following "rgIgnoredApps" will be a colon and then between an opening and closing bracket (the square ones [ ] ) you will see a list of numbers. these are the steam app ids for all of the games you have ignored/marked as not interested. select and copy from open bracket "[" to close bracket "]" including the brackets, stop before "rgIgnoredPackages"

STEP 6: paste the copied list into the html file, you created using the above code earlier, replacing the three asterisks "***"

STEP 7: save your html file and open it in an internet browser, for best functionality do so in the same browser you logged into your steam account.

STEP 8: the page you just opened should have a single button on it. click the button! you know you want to. each time you do, a new window or tab should open in the browser targeting a game in the steam store. if you are still logged into your account you will see that these games are in fact marked as "not interested" and you should be able to unmark them if you so choose.

if something does not work then you are either blocking javascript in your browser, you did something wrong, or this is really old and no longer valid.

sometimes games will have been renumbered or removed from the steam store and in these cases the new page will be redirected to the store's main page. if this is the case you can click on the button again and look at the app id of the next item in the list. then find the previous app id in the original list from your userdata page and search for that app id on steam database[www.steamdb.com] if you are really curious what it was.

if you want to just reset all of the ignored apps there are instructions for that here a post by Stralytic

as an interesting aside i found this: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2646131
if you have ever closed the steam news update pop-up without looking at all the little things and wanted to see them, there is a way to do that.
Last edited by stræf; Jun 24, 2017 @ 8:25am
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TheJobist Nov 2, 2015 @ 2:51pm 
Thank you very much!!
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Saori Dec 23, 2015 @ 10:01am 
It really works. Thank you!
#2
Namelessesst Dec 23, 2015 @ 10:05am 
Thank you
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Vo1kZ Dec 24, 2015 @ 7:45am 
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NasiPuti Dec 26, 2015 @ 10:34am 
Awesome! This was a giant help. Very much appreciated.
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Kashregnar Feb 10, 2016 @ 2:03am 
This is great! I just found this after a discussion in a other forum and linked to this thread. Thanks for your work b33f3r! :thumbs:
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greybatter97 Feb 15, 2016 @ 11:37am 
You, sir, are a GENIUS!!! Thanks! ^^
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PCsasquatch Jun 25, 2016 @ 11:23am 
Thanks a bunch.
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Saturite Jan 13, 2019 @ 1:27am 
Anyone just now finding this thread it is infinitely easier.

1. Click dropdown in top right by account name.
2. Select preferences/storepreferences
3. Scroll down until you see Ignored products

Then you can rapidly change them.
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waytosexy Jan 13, 2019 @ 2:48am 
okey man I trahat ypu vo vse diri:steamhappy:
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