sent me your trade offer https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/tradeoffer/new/?partner=432293905&token=MyKXAd6l

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvMY1uzSC1E

I miss you pony bots


So, get away
Another way to feel what you didn't want yourself to know
And let yourself go
You know you didn't lose your self-control
Let's start at the rainbow
Turn away
Another way to be where you didn't want yourself to go
Let yourself go
Is that a compromise

Thanks for everythin Yar

these were the best bots

are the bots still dead?

this our chance to revive (?)

The bots...
This group...

How to launch bot

I wish that this bots could get back to trading with awesome prices.

Why do bots have such a low amount of items

Why don't any of the bots carry Unusual hats anymore? Why do they all only carry Unusual taunts?

Nevermind, it suddenly gave me a trade offer a few minutes.

Is it just me or...


Everytime I make a trade with the bots, I never get a confirmation message?

I can't seem to find the trade on my confirmation list even if I refreshed it.

Do these bots still work? Every trade i make never gets accepted.

They're also online for me on friends list but isn't able to trade. Probably you can only be able to trade if they are in-game.

None of the bots are working. Says they are online then when I click to trade with them they are offline. Someone help pls

To whoever's gonna use twibot, sorry m8 i bought almost every craft hat in that bot

Item.tf is offline

AppleBot's backpack is full. I hope it gets reduced soon, I'm eager to trade for that Scout Unusual it has.

sorry for saying this but pinkies backpacks full

Two bots backpacks are full

hey i think items.tf is down i cant go to the website and it seems like the website doesnt exist

items.tf is offline?

can anyone trade me a white mohawk for 3.11 trade me

As some of you may have noticed, trades are now taking much longer to confirm. This is due to a new broken rate limiting scheme which Valve implemented recently that only allows the Confirmations page to be accessed once every ~120 seconds.

I've throttled the retry rate to prevent network issues caused by Steam returning throusands of errors per second. Unfortunately there is no actual workaround until the bots are switched to using Trade Offers.

The same error with pinkybot :c

it took me by suprise when i realized how expensive the items are

Update: Bots now retry once when adding/removing an item fails.

This seems to fix most failed trades. Please note that Steam is still experiencing severe issues at the moment and trading is *very* slow and unresponsive.

@namazso (idle)
It's not timing out but the bots do cancel a trade immediately upon receiving an error rather than retry as a user would, because sometimes the reported errors are false.

For a user this would manifest as not being able to add any items, or having items you removed reappear in the trade window later.

I'll see about having it automatically retry, since there's now a consistency check (using tradestatus) before accepting a trade.

@KenRys
Essentially it means trading is down at the moment (downtime varies from a few minutes to hours). Steam gives that error when attempting to add an item to the window if it's unable to contact the item server.

If you want to check beforehand, https://steamgaug.es has mostly accurate server status information. I'll be adding an error rate to the website at some point which should work even better.

"Steam error ("Unable to set item"), please try again."
Why i'm getting this?

They never have metal ;-;

@Zystem #TeamHeavy
It actually is on your end. Steam has a limit of 5 outstanding offers per user, or 30 total. See FAQ for details.

I'm getting this error every time I trade the bots
12:56 - <Items.TF> CeleBot: Steam error ("Unable to set item"), please try again.

@><Gouminho
Sorry, but that's intentional (see the FAQ).

To clarify, the reasons we're currently against selling unusuals for pure are:
* Outdated prices: It would be fairly easy to buy a cheap overpriced unusual off the market and flip it for a profit, even with the -15% fee. A market scanner is in the works that would remedy this.
* 255 item trade limit: Only applies to manual trades, not trade offers.
* Stolen unusuals: No longer an issue, since Valve no longer accepts stolen item reports.

In short, I'll remove that limitation once we transition to web-generated trade offers, but not before then.

Well, when i was trying to sell my unusual hat on the bots but the keep adding only 1 key while the got like 5 more and tons of refinded metal

I've hit another roadblock with node-steam-tradeoffers this time, apparently it uses steamcommunity /my/ URLs aswell, and needs to be rewritten from scratch to address this.

DerpyBot is full, please empty thnx <3

Why are the bots currently offline?

New bots will be added Jul. 17: SweetieBot, ScootaBot - Aug. 18: AppleBot², ?

Assuming the PayPal lockout is 1 month per 2 new accounts, as suggested by other users. If not then I'll work around that by buying $20 Steam cards from local stores.

We still have plenty of inventory space at the moment, with 3,281 free slots across all active bots. I'll be working on automatic load balancing so they no longer fill up while I'm asleep :)

To clarify (for those interested), the pages with a shared rate-limit include:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/my/tradeoffers/
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/my/tradeoffers/sent/
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/id/{Someone_Else}/tradeoffers/
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/id/{Someone_Else}/tradeoffers/sent/

Accessing those pages too many times in a certain time period will get you IP banned from accessing them for several days, possibly permanently. Fortunately they are for convenience only and most users will never touch them.

So we can still have the bots request the page using their own SteamID, cache any redirect, and if we start getting 429s on the cached page then we can assume our /id/ changed. This seems to work nicely and doesn't trigger any weird pitfalls.

It looks like Valve is attempting to cover up their lack of web development knowlege with odd rate limits on certain pages. In particular, https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/my/ has a rate limit on the base page requested, which is shared with other people's accounts. It seems as though it has to make a couple of unncessary database lookups to acquire your SteamID, dispite it being included in the request cookies.

Apparently the Backpack.tf API is "fixed", though it's now back to an older version with "hats" and "buds" as currency. I've hardcoded a fix for now since it appears only craft hats priced 6+ months ago now use those non-standard currencies.

Also Valve made an incomprehensible oversight in their API design in which a strict rate limit is enforced for web requests, which are the only way to remove expired trade offers. I'll try to reduce purging requests to the bare minimum (every 5 completed trades) to work around this, but it's going to require additional persistent state.

TL;DR non-marketable items should be priced now.

@tob
Add one of the bots that has an item you want as a friend, then trade with it (type "trade" in chat, without quotes).

To have the bot add items, click the link on its profile that says "[ Click here to view my inventory ]", then click and drag the item from your web browser and drop it into Steam chat with the bot (not trade chat).

The rest is simple, just add your items and when the bot says you owe nothing then click Ready and confirm the trade.

More can be found in the FAQ: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/ynbots/discussions/0/626329820701528721/

Help i am new with bots.how can i buy hats?

So I tried selling my painted pure Black Hat with no name and it says that it's unpriced even thought I looked at my inventory on Bp.tf and it has a price.

Backpack.tf's API is currently malfunctioning and returning no data for the majority of items, so at the moment most non-marketable items cannot be bought/sold.

No ETA on when this will be fixed and there's nothing I can do about it, but I'll be working on retaining pricing data better to prevent this from happening in the future.

@Boxer Lover 101
Fixed. Refined metal is dropping again, so the bots were getting flooded with it.

Pinkie and Twilight's Backpacks are full

@><Gouminho
It's fixed now.