Salien Cheat Service

The goal of this project was to be able to to provide a platform to host other SalienCheat bot 24/7 for others. One of the motivation for this project was the inability to use Heroku workers after a mass suspension.

You can visit the demo here. Make sure it is http as I have not gotten around to setting up https. Note: Be warn that your secret over http is insecure and exposed.

This project relies on

• SteamDB/SalienCheat.

This project will store your data within local-storage so to ease your next visit.

Install

You need to have a device with a public ip and, preferably, a -nix based operating system.

Create a .env file with

REACT_APP_DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LIMIT=one-of-100-500-1000
REACT_APP_BACKEND_URL=public-ip-or-url-of-backend-server
SALIEN_CHEAT_DIRECTORY=path-to-SalienCheat
SECRET=some-secret-to-limit-access
HTTP_PORT=port-to-host-bot

Then, execute

yarn setup // set up log directory
yarn build // construct minified frontend with backend url environment variable
yarn serve // start the server

Now, you can visit your public ip or url and provide your steam token and custom secret.

Note: This is all that is needed to be done; however, setting up a web server is a non-trivial task for those without experience. The bare minimum requirement is php and node. The rest is up to you on how you want to set up a public ip or url.

Registration

Registration is available and controlled via means of a SECRET. This SECRET is the same one specified in the .env file. This is mainly for the server maintainer to have the ability to selective register specific user via their specified token.

To do so, the server maintainer must have another user's steam token and the server secret. Enter the credentials in their appropriate fields and click register. This will create a token-bound secret. The server maintainer can provide this to the newly registered user for the user to control and monitor their bot.

In the case that the user forgets their secret, the server maintainer can redo the above process. This will kill any running bots before issuing a new registration token.

With the server secret, the server maintainer can monitor any steam bot given that the maintainer has recollection of the token used.

Credential Storage

Upon submitting any credentials, the token and secret will be saved in local storage to ease future visits.