How to view updates for an app?

[vodkadrunkinski]

Is it possible to use steamctl to view the updates for an app, using only the appid (or even a depot id)?

[vodkadrunkinski]

Possible answer (for Rust game)?
steamctl webapi call ISteamNews.GetNewsForApp appid=252490 count=1 feeds=steam_community_announcements

Not sure if that's the best solution to track game updates though...

[rossengeorgiev]

I'm assuming you are looking to check if there is an update for an app. Similar to this: #26

Each app has a public branch, that's the default one that Steam downloads. Each branch can be one or more depots. Anyway, each branch has a buildid, so checking that can tell if there has been an update. Below is an example how to get the buildid:

# steamctl --anonymous apps product_info 740 | jq -r .depots.branches.public.buildid
6193619
# steamctl --anonymous apps product_info 740 | jq .depots.branches
{
  "1.37.7.9": {
    "buildid": "6154962",
    "description": "1.37.7.9",
    "pwdrequired": "1",
    "timeupdated": "1612893933"
  },
  "1.37.8.0": {
    "buildid": "6185846",
    "description": "1.37.8.0",
    "timeupdated": "1612894215"
  },
....

You could write script to check the buildid, and determine if there is an update.

[vodkadrunkinski]

Thanks for the tip!

Here's the easy way to do the check (in bash):

UT=`steamctl --anonymous apps product_info 252490 | jq -r .depots.branches.public.timeupdated`
date -d @$UT