The library heartbeat - keep or start the caller's warm Steam (amendment 39).

PUT

/v1/me/steam-warm

const url = 'http://localhost:8080/v1/me/steam-warm';
const options = {method: 'PUT', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

use std::str::FromStr;
use reqwest;

#[tokio::main]
pub async fn main() {
    let url = "http://localhost:8080/v1/me/steam-warm";

    let mut headers = reqwest::header::HeaderMap::new();
    headers.insert("Authorization", "Bearer <token>".parse().unwrap());

    let client = reqwest::Client::new();
    let response = client.request(reqwest::Method::from_str("PUT").unwrap(), url)
        .headers(headers)
        .send()
        .await;

    let results = response.unwrap()
        .json::<serde_json::Value>()
        .await
        .unwrap();

    dbg!(results);
}

curl --request PUT \
  --url http://localhost:8080/v1/me/steam-warm \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

Per-caller, from the bearer identity only: no body (one that is sent is ignored), no query parameters, no admin variant. See control-api.md §Warm Steam. Once authenticated it ALWAYS answers 204 with no body, whatever it did: it starts a parked session when every rule allows one, and sets the caller’s parked session’s deadline to now plus steam_warm_idle_minutes. The web client calls it every 60 s while the library page is open. Like every bearer route it may answer 426 client_too_old first (x-global-responses).

Authorizations

bearerAuth

Responses

204

Done

401

Missing/invalid/expired/revoked token.

application/json

object

error

required

object

code

required

E.g. validation_failed, unauthorized, forbidden, not_found, conflict, session_quota_exceeded, home_in_use, home_not_provisioned, parent_app_disabled, profile_ineligible, profile_not_launchable_for_app, no_host_available, capacity_exhausted, host_not_ready, restart_required, stale_revision, unsupported_source, approval_superseded, approval_expired, attempt_conflict, cancel_too_late, retry_exhausted, home_conflict, placement_ineligible, inherited_placement, recovery_uncertain, rate_limited, internal. Open string, not an enum: new codes are additive and an unknown one falls through to a client’s generic per-status branch.

string

message

required

string

live_sessions

Present on restart_required.

integer

session_id

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on home_in_use when the guard could name the CONFLICTING live session - the one already holding the home. It is here so the client can offer “go to your running session” with a link instead of a dead-end toast. OMITTED rather than empty when the conflict is known but the session is not, so a client branches on presence and never renders a link to nowhere. Also omitted when the holder is the caller’s parked session or released runtime (amendment 39). Load-bearing once derived tiles exist: the lock is held by the PARENT’s home, so a user who clicks a game tile can be refused because a DIFFERENT app (the Steam launcher, or another game from the same install) is running, and without the session id the refusal reads as a bug. See control-api.md §Derived tiles.

string format: uuid

derived_tiles

Steam library discovery Phase 3, ADDITIVE: present on the 409 conflict from DELETE /v1/apps/{id} when the app has derived tiles and ?delete_derived=true was not sent. A LIST, not a count - the point of the confirmation is that the admin sees what they are about to destroy. Capped; an empty array means the tiles could not be listed, never that there are none.

Array<object>

object

required

string format: uuid

name

required

string

reason

Amendment 40 (#602), ADDITIVE: a machine-readable cause under code. On 503 no_host_available, home_host_unavailable: the launch is pinned to the host that holds the caller’s home for this app (Amendment 53: or it is pinned to the host of the caller’s Steam home for a sharing launch) and that host is offline or no longer enrolled. Only an admin clears it, so a client does not spend its automatic retry on it. Names no host. Amendment 53 (#1001), on 409 home_in_use: steam_library_open_in_desktop (the holder mounts the Steam library as a shared home) or steam_game_running (the refused launch shares the library and a Steam session holds it); absent when the holder is already stopping. Open string: a client treats an unknown value as absent.

string

Example^generated

{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "live_sessions": 1,
    "session_id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
    "derived_tiles": [
      {
        "id": "2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0",
        "name": "example"
      }
    ],
    "reason": "example"
  }
}

The library heartbeat - keep or start the caller's warm Steam (amendment 39).

Authorizations

Responses

204

401

Examplegenerated

Example^generated