archi-steam-farm mit Homebrew, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• asf

Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created on 2015-10-25. Its README describes the original purpose as farming Steam cards from multiple accounts simultaneously and explicitly contrasts ASF with Idle Master: ASF does not require the Steam client, does not launch fake game processes, and is intended to run on servers or desktop-less machines.

Over time ASF grew beyond card idling into a larger Steam power-user daemon, with Steam authenticator support, chat logging, trading helpers, a plugin system, IPC/UI configuration, and broad Windows, Linux, and macOS support on .NET.

Adoptionsgeschichte

ASF has one of the stronger adoption stories in this batch: the official repository had many thousands of stars and forks by 2026, official releases, Docker images, a winget package, and a Homebrew formula. The README also links a Steam group, Discord, statistics, WebConfigGenerator, localization, and a large GitHub wiki, all signs of a long-running user community.

The package-manager appeal is direct: Steam card farming and account automation are long-running tasks, so a packaged CLI that can be installed, configured once, and run as a service is more useful than a one-off desktop helper.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users configure ASF through a `config` directory. The wiki says global process configuration is `ASF.json`, while each bot account has a `BotName.json`; a bot represents one Steam account. The same directory also stores bot databases such as `BotName.db`.

Credential-sensitive fields include `SteamLogin` and `SteamPassword` in bot config, while login keys are stored in `BotName.db`. The wiki explicitly notes that login keys let ASF avoid repeatedly asking for password, Steam Guard, or 2FA after a successful login.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ASF is a package-nerd classic because it turns an unofficial but highly practical gaming workflow into a daemon-like, cross-platform CLI/service package.

It also shows how a niche automation project evolves packaging gravity: config schema, generated config UI, wiki, Docker, winget, Homebrew, plugin templates, and persistent per-bot state all orbit the core executable.

Zeitleiste

• 2015-10-25: GitHub repository created.
• 2024-08-08: Earliest release returned in the current GitHub releases API page for this batch, 6.0.6.2.
• 2026-05-24: Latest GitHub release observed for this batch, 6.3.6.1.

Related projects

• The README credits SteamKit2 as the library that makes ASF possible.
• The README contrasts ASF with Idle Master as a single-account, Steam-client-dependent predecessor in the Steam card-idling space.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm
• https://api.github.com/repos/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm/releases
• https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm
• https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki/Configuration