If you’re into trading or collecting skins, items, or cosmetics on the Steam Community Market, you know how fast prices fluctuate. Keeping an eye on multiple items manually can be exhausting — that’s where Steam‑Market‑Multi‑Watcher comes in handy. This lightweight tool lets you monitor multiple items at once, showing you price changes and notifying you when an item hits your target price.
🔍 What is Steam-Market-Multi-Watcher?
Steam-Market-Multi-Watcher is a PHP-based dashboard and watcher script designed to track multiple items on the Steam Market simultaneously. Instead of having to refresh pages or search items manually one by one, you feed the items you care about into a JSON file — and the watcher does the rest.
Key features:
- Multi-item tracking via an items.json list.
- Web dashboard that auto-refreshes, so you get up-to-date price information without manual reloads.
- Notifications — you can set up a webhook (for example for Discord) so the bot alerts you when an item reaches or drops below your desired price.
- Caching and robust price parsing, which helps avoid rate-limit problems from Steam (since the tool uses the undocumented Steam price endpoints).
- Optionally: run as a CLI watcher for headless or 24/7 monitoring (e.g. on a server).
In short: rather than checking dozens of listings manually — refreshing pages, hoping for a good price — the watcher automates the hustle and lets you wait until the market matches your ideal price.
Why this matters: the problem with manual browsing
The Steam Community Market can be overwhelming. There are thousands of items, rapidly changing buy/sell prices, and — especially for popular games and skins — high volatility. According to many community users, the market interface can feel clunky or even unreliable for heavy trackers. As one user put it:
“The market is complete garbage.”
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For anyone trading more than a handful of items, manually monitoring listings is inefficient, error-prone, and simply tiresome. Tools like Steam-Market-Multi-Watcher help you automate this process — freeing you to react quickly without constant checking.
How to get started
Getting up and running with Steam-Market-Multi-Watcher is fairly straightforward (requires some comfort with basic server or PHP usage):
- Clone the repository using Git.
- Edit the items.json file to include the Steam Market item names you want to watch — and set your target prices.
- Start the built-in web server (e.g., php -S 0.0.0.0:8080) and open the dashboard in your browser.
- (Optional) Add your Discord webhook URL to get alerts when items reach your target price.
- For 24/7 tracking, run the CLI version (or use a server / Docker container / other background process) and let it monitor continuously.
What to keep in mind
- The tool uses undocumented Steam endpoints (for example the priceoverview endpoint) to get price data. Steam rate-limits these endpoints, so it’s important to use moderate polling intervals and rely on caching.
- Not all items on Steam are tradable or market-enabled; some games/items may not support listing on the Steam Market.
- Because price data comes from a public endpoint (rather than an official, fully documented API), reliability isn’t guaranteed. Still — for many users, the convenience and automation outweigh the occasional inconsistencies.
Final thoughts: Why I built — and you might want to use — Steam-Market-Multi-Watcher
I built Steam-Market-Multi-Watcher to scratch a personal itch: track multiple skins / items without constantly refreshing pages or risking missing a deal. It turns the Steam Market from a frustrating browsing session into a passive, automated process. If you’re into trading, flipping, or just keeping an eye on rare items — this watcher can save you time and stress.
If you decide to test it out, I’d love to hear back: what works, what doesn’t, and what features you might want next. Happy trading! 🎯
