Welcome to python-valve’s documentation!

python-valve is a Python library which aims to provide the ability to interface with various Valve services and products, including: the Steam web API, locally installed Steam clients, Source servers and the Source master server.

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Although Python libraries do already exist for many aspects which python-valve aims to cover, many of them are ageing and no long maintained. python-valve hopes to change that and provide an all-in-one library for interfacing with Valve products and services that is well tested, well documented and actively maintained.

python-valve’s functional test suite for its A2S implementation is actively ran against thousands of servers to ensure that if any subtle changes are made by Valve that break things they can be quickly picked up and fixed.

License

Copyright (c) 2013-2017 Oliver Ainsworth

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Trademarks

Valve, the Valve logo, Half-Life, the Half-Life logo, the Lambda logo, Steam, the Steam logo, Team Fortress, the Team Fortress logo, Opposing Force, Day of Defeat, the Day of Defeat logo, Counter-Strike, the Counter-Strike logo, Source, the Source logo, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Portal, the Portal logo, Dota, the Dota 2 logo, and Defense of the Ancients are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation.

Any reference to these are purely for the purpose of identification. Valve Corporation is not affiliated with python-valve in any way.

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