Fat Folder Design

June 27, 2014July 31, 2014

Steam Costs script updated!

Updated the Steam-Costs script on github, now it displays the info in neat tables like this:

Regular Price: $74,776.79
Current Price: $45,304.91
Number of Free Items: 306 (%0.047)
Current Number of Discounted Items: 4,874 (%0.752)
Current Savings: %0.394 ($29,471.88)

Average Price: $12.10 ($11.53 including free items)
Average Current Price: $7.33 ($6.99 including free items)
Average Sale Discount: %48.278 ($6.05)

                                 Totals By Category
+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| Category             | Items | Disc Items | Free Items | Reg Total  | Cur Total  |
+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| Games                | 3,331 | 2,543      | 222        | $39,862.31 | $22,252.22 |
| Downloadable Content | 3,076 | 2,284      | 73         | $30,526.22 | $19,771.62 |
| Software             | 77    | 47         | 11         | $4,388.26  | $3,281.07  |
+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

                                    Discounts By Category
+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| Category             | Disc Items | Avg Disc % | Avg Disc $ | Total % Disc | Total Disc $ |
+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+
| Games                | 2,543      | %44.644    | $6.92      | %0.442       | $17,610.09   |
| Downloadable Content | 2,284      | %52.192    | $4.71      | %0.352       | $10,754.60   |
| Software             | 47         | %54.675    | $23.56     | %0.252       | $1,107.19    |
+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

Regular Price: $74,776.79

Current Price: $45,304.91

Number of Free Items: 306 (%0.047)

Current Number of Discounted Items: 4,874 (%0.752)

Current Savings: %0.394 ($29,471.88)

Average Price: $12.10 ($11.53 including free items)

Average Current Price: $7.33 ($6.99 including free items)

Average Sale Discount: %48.278 ($6.05)

Totals By Category

+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

| Games | 3,331 | 2,543 | 222 | $39,862.31 | $22,252.22 |

| Downloadable Content | 3,076 | 2,284 | 73 | $30,526.22 | $19,771.62 |

| Software | 77 | 47 | 11 | $4,388.26 | $3,281.07 |

+----------------------+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+

Discounts By Category

+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

| Games | 2,543 | %44.644 | $6.92 | %0.442 | $17,610.09 |

| Downloadable Content | 2,284 | %52.192 | $4.71 | %0.352 | $10,754.60 |

| Software | 47 | %54.675 | $23.56 | %0.252 | $1,107.19 |

+----------------------+------------+------------+------------+--------------+--------------+

Theres more data than that to see as well, thats just an excerpt. Additionally, it now lists all the items currently on discount, during a big sale like the ongoing summer sale, thats a really big list. Check out off the details of a scrape I made on the 25th on the steam-costs github page or grab a copy and run it yourself.

June 18, 2014July 31, 2014

Every wonder how much you would need to buy everything off the Steam Store?

Someone did, and they asked the subreddit /r/theydidthemath. I had never considered it before, but I have some experience scraping and playing with data so I decided to make a script that could tell me just that.

Steam Pricing Breakdown June 18th, 2014 4:17pm PDT

Items Accounted For: 6,460
Total Price: $74,018.58
Current Price: $72,318.2
Current Number of Items on Sale: 133
Current Savings: %0.02297 ($1,700.30)

Average Price: $11.46
Average Current Price: $11.19
Average Sale Discount: %56.526 ($12.78)

Regular Price Breakdown by Category
Downloadable Content: $29,666.96
Games               : $39,964.35
Software            : $4,387.27

Regular Price Breakdown by Platform
Linux    : $8,434.45
Mac      : $17,946.96
Steamplay: $18,317.58
Win      : $73,938.61

Regular Price Breakdown by Genre
                     : $10,396.52
Action               : $25,915.81
Adventure            : $12,605.45
Audio Production     : $909.74
Casual               : $7,095.32
Early Access         : $3,830.03
Free To Play         : $6,654.06
Indie                : $17,190.95
Massively Multiplayer: $4,164.14
No Genre Given       : $2,465.27
RPG                  : $11,480.58
Racing               : $2,218.66
Simulation           : $14,648.90
Sports               : $1,989.35
Strategy             : $14,150.05
Utilities            : $629.78

Steam Pricing Breakdown June 18th, 2014 4:17pm PDT

Items Accounted For: 6,460

Total Price: $74,018.58

Current Price: $72,318.2

Current Number of Items on Sale: 133

Current Savings: %0.02297 ($1,700.30)

Average Price: $11.46

Average Current Price: $11.19

Average Sale Discount: %56.526 ($12.78)

Regular Price Breakdown by Category

Downloadable Content: $29,666.96

Games : $39,964.35

Software : $4,387.27

Regular Price Breakdown by Platform

Linux : $8,434.45

Mac : $17,946.96

Steamplay: $18,317.58

Win : $73,938.61

Regular Price Breakdown by Genre

: $10,396.52

Action : $25,915.81

Adventure : $12,605.45

Audio Production : $909.74

Casual : $7,095.32

Early Access : $3,830.03

Free To Play : $6,654.06

Indie : $17,190.95

Massively Multiplayer: $4,164.14

No Genre Given : $2,465.27

RPG : $11,480.58

Racing : $2,218.66

Simulation : $14,648.90

Sports : $1,989.35

Strategy : $14,150.05

Utilities : $629.78

I was honestly expecting more both in number of items and in the overall sale amount, after the Steam Store is known for their sales. Anyways I have put the script up on github in case anybody wants to play around with it. The scraper is scraping more data that the stats are using, so if your looking for some specific information you might be able to get it out. It also supports loading old data sets to run comparisons against the big sales. Speaking of which there should be a Summer Sale any time now…

November 10, 2013July 31, 2014

Remote is_file for PHP < 5.5.0

I know it’s been a long time since posting, and there are various reasons, one of which was that length of time it took to create a long post, so I’m changing up the format a bit with these kinda shorter posts as I come across them, hopefully be getting directly to the point I’ll be able to make the time to get them done. Anyways, to the posting.

If your programming on a newer version of PHP, say 5.5.0 or newer you may have become rather dependent on the ability for various things like get_file_contents and is_file to use various wrappers to do there thing. I know that it’s been a huge time saver for me, but what do you do if your then forced back to an over, pre 5.5.0 version of PHP and want to check for that remote file? Simple.

function curl_is_file($file){
	$ch = curl_init($file);
	curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_NOBODY,true);
	curl_exec($ch);
	$retcode = curl_getinfo($ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
	curl_close($ch);
	if($retcode==200){
		return true;
	}else{
		return false;
	}
}

function curl_is_file($file){

$ch = curl_init($file);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_NOBODY,true);

curl_exec($ch);

$retcode = curl_getinfo($ch,CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

curl_close($ch);

if($retcode==200){

return true;

}else{

return false;

}

It’s as simple as that. All this function does it use curl to check the HTTP code at the supplied url and returns true or false accordingly.