Chapter 3.3 - Sending Group Invites

Sending Group Invites

Now after adding friends we might want to send them group invites, to do this we use the inviteToGroup method from the steam-user module.

The inviteToGroup method takes 2 parameters, the user's steam id to whom the invite will be sent and the group id of the group. Also the recipient must be a friend of the bot.

inviteToGroup(userSteamID, groupSteamID)

Now let's assume that the steam id and the group id are stored in the variables steamid and groupid repectively. Here's how we'll use them to send a group invite.

client.inviteToGroup(steamid, groupSteamID);

This can easily be integrated with the chat system as follows:

client.on('friendMessage', (steamid, message) => {
  if (message === "!group") {
    client.chatMessage(steamid,"Sending you a Group Invite!");
    client.inviteToGroup(steamid, groupSteamID);
  }
});

This will send a group invite to the message sender whenever he sends us a !group message.

An alternative to this would be to use the inviteUserToGroup method of the steamcommunity module. There isn't much difference, the same parameters are taken by inviteUserToGroup too.

client.on('friendMessage', (steamid, message) => {
  if (message === "!group") {
    client.chatMessage(steamid,"Sending you a Group Invite!");
    community.inviteUserToGroup(steamid, groupSteamID);
  }
});

A working example of this has been added to the project4.js file, please refer to it if you have any issues.

This chapter was written by @DentFuse for Steam-Bot-Basics/node-steam-guide.