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Steam Bots: How to get shared and identity secrets from Steam Guard TOTP

Steam Bots: How to get shared and identity secrets

If you're looking into automating transactions in your Steam Account using Steam Bots, you most likely will need to:

  1. Have TOTP ("MFA" or "2FA") enabled via Steam Authenticator (Steam Guard)
  2. Have in hands both shared secret and identity secret

Having Steam Guard enabled for your Steam Account ensures that there will be no holds on transactions such as trades. Having the shared and identity secrets are necessary for complete autonomy of your Steam Bot, meaning it won't require any human interaction from you.

There is a tremendous lack of information about all of this as Steam does not provide official support for implementing Steam Bots. The information available in this guide was gathered through lots of blood and sweat hard research, reverse eng