Track Steam wishlists and sales

What you need

• Your app id: the number in your store URL (store.steampowered.com/app/<app id>/).
• A Financial Web API key from Steamworks. Only a Steamworks admin can create one. If that isn't you, your admins are listed on your Steamworks home page.

Get the key

Valve's reference: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/webapi/IPartnerFinancialsService

1. Sign in to Steamworks as an admin.
2. Go to Users & Permissions, then Manage Groups.
3. Create a new Financial API Group. (TODO: confirm the exact button and option names in Steamworks.)
4. Open the new group's page and copy the Financial Web API key shown there.
5. Leave the group's IP whitelist empty. Our servers don't have a fixed IP address, so a whitelist blocks us.

A dedicated group just for Droppin' Eaves means you can revoke this key without touching other tools.

Connect

1. Open Configure, Sources tab. In the top row, pick Steam Financials.
2. App id: the digits, or paste your store or community /app/ URL.
3. Day: Yesterday (GMT) is a finished day (the default). Today (GMT) may still be filling.
4. Group Web API key: paste the key.
5. Click Confirm (the check mark).

What happens next

Once a day we read that GMT day's wishlist summary and show four numbers on your dashboards: Wishlist adds, Wishlist deletes, Wishlist purchases and Wishlist gifts. These are that day's actions, not a running total. Steam refreshes this data at least once a day.

Common problems

• Authorization error: the key isn't from a Financial API Group. A personal Steam Community key or a regular publisher key won't work.
• Blocked even with the right key: the group has an IP whitelist. Clear it on the group's page (Manage WebAPI Key section).
• All zeros or blank: no wishlist activity that day, or the date is before Steam has data for the app.
• You pasted only a number on Any and got something else: pick Steam Financials, or paste your store URL.
• Want live player count? That's the Steam Game row and needs no key.

What we can and can't watch

• Can: the four daily wishlist numbers for one app per row.
• Can't: your all-time wishlist total, country or language splits, sales, revenue or player count.

Privacy

• Valve's docs say a Financial API key can read financial data for every app on your partner account. We only call wishlist reporting for the app id on the row.
• We store the key encrypted when you confirm. It is never sent to an AI model.
• To stop: remove the row in Configure (the minus button) to delete our copy. To kill the key itself, revoke or regenerate it on the group's page in Steamworks. (TODO: confirm the revoke control in Manage WebAPI Key.)