lancache-autofill

Automatically fill a lancache with the content of your choosing, so that subsequent downloads for the same content will be served from the lancache, improving speeds and reducing load on your internet connection.

Features

Queue the top 1 to 100 popular apps on Steam, or just the free apps
Queue a specific app by ID
Choose which platform(s) to download an app for
Use multiple Steam accounts to download apps
See which apps downloaded successfully
See which apps failed, and what the error message was
Retry downloading of failed apps

Requirements

A working lancache
Ubuntu 16.04 x64, configured to download via the lancache
Sufficient disk space to (temporarily) store the downloaded content
PHP 7.0

Installation

git clone https://github.com/zeropingheroes/lancache-autofill.git
cd lancache-autofill
sudo ./install.sh

Quick Start

Install and initialise SteamCMD:

./lancache-autofill steam:initialise
Set the default Steam account to be used when queueing apps for download:

nano .env
Search for the apps you wish to download to find their app ID:

./lancache-autofill steam:search-apps "team fortress 2"

440 Team Fortress 2 [...]
Queue the app for download by ID:

./lancache-autofill steam:queue-app 440
Authorise your Steam account:

./lancache-autofill steam:authorise-account
Start downloading items in the download queue:

./lancache-autofill steam:start-downloading
View the download queue to see the status of the downloads:

./lancache-autofill steam:show-queue
Clear the temporary download location:

./lancache-autofill app:initialise-downloads-directory

Command Reference

app:initialise-database

Initialise the database.

app:initialise-downloads-directory

Initialise the downloads directory.

steam:initialise

Install and initialise SteamCMD

steam:authorise-account [account]

Authorise a Steam account to allow download of apps in their library.
If no account is specified, you will be prompted for the username

steam:queue-app appid [appid, appid...] [--windows] [--osx] [--linux]

Queue one or more Steam apps for downloading.
Optionally the platform(s) to download can be specified as options
If no platform option is specified, the Windows version of the app will be queued

steam:queue-popular-apps [top=100] [--free] [--windows] [--osx] [--linux]

Queue the top most popular apps on Steam in the past 2 weeeks
Optionally
- Only queue top X apps (default 100)
- Only queue free apps
- Specify the platform(s) to download (default - windows)

steam:dequeue [--app_id=] [--platform=] [--status=] [--message=]

Dequeue a items from the download queue.
Optionally specify any combination of app ID, platform, status and message
Calling with no arguments clears the queue

steam:requeue [status=failed] [--message=]

Requeue failed and/or completed items in the download queue.
By default failed items are requeued
Optionally only requeue items whose message contains the specified value

steam:search-apps name

Search Steam apps by name.

steam:show-queue [status]

Show the Steam app download queue.
Optionally only show items with specified status
Available statuses are: queued, failed, completed

steam:start-downloading

Start downloading the Steam apps in the queue.
The account(s) specified in the queue to download from are checked before any app downloads are attempted

steam:update-app-list

Get the latest list of apps from Steam.

Limitations & Known Issues

Steam is the only supported platform currently
Paid apps can only be cached with access to a Steam account that owns them
No support for forcing download of 32 bit apps
Yes, it's written in PHP. No shame.

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