dev: testing: epic-games, prime-gaming, gog

[vogler]

Let's collect current issues for the dev branch here to not strain #183 too much and send notifications to people waiting for a release on the main branch. See #470 for dev details.

Here you can see when the docker image was last pushed: https://github.com/vogler/free-games-claimer/pkgs/container/free-games-claimer
You can run this version in docker by just appending :dev as a tag (instead of the implicit :latest):

docker run --rm -it -p 6080:6080 -v fgc:/fgc/data --pull=always ghcr.io/vogler/free-games-claimer:dev

Current status (for me, I'll update this with links in place):

• epic-games:
  • no Docker: working without captcha
  • Docker: getting captcha on login due to OpenGL being disabled: epic-games: docker: captcha due to OpenGL/WebGL/WebGPU not working? #483
• prime-gaming: works for me
• gog: works for me

[hvmzx]

Everything working now except Aliexpress

Version: https://github.com/vogler/free-games-claimer/tree/3d25737e0fef6462504b925c2a42a16e7f3d43ec
Branch: dev
Build: Tue, 27 May 2025 21:36:37 +0000
Xvfb display server created screen with resolution 1920x1080
VNC is running on port 5900 (no password!)
noVNC (VNC via browser) is running on http://localhost:6080

2025-05-28 11:34:26.248 started checking epic-games
Signed in.
Free games: [
  'https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/deliver-at-all-costs-a30c8d',
  'https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/gigapocalypse-fdc53b',
  'https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/sifu'
]
Current free game: Deliver At All Costs
  Already in library! Nothing to claim.
Current free game: Gigapocalypse
  Already in library! Nothing to claim.
Current free game: Sifu
  Already in library! Nothing to claim.
2025-05-28 11:34:41.465 started checking prime-gaming
Signed in
waitUntilStable 4843
waitUntilStable 4895
waitUntilStable 4895
Number of already claimed games (total): 33

Number of free unclaimed games (Prime Gaming): 0

Number of free unclaimed games (external stores): 0
2025-05-28 11:34:59.691 started checking gog
Signed in.
Current free game: Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War - https://www.gog.com/en/game/warhammer_40000_rites_of_war
  Already in library! Nothing to claim.
auth https://www.aliexpress.com/p/coin-pc-index/index.html

[hvmzx]

Also, it seems I am not getting notifications when yesterday I got :

Game already in library: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/deliver-at-all-costs-a30c8d'
'Game already in library: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/gigapocalypse-fdc53b'
'Game already in library: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/sifu'

It would be nice to have these improvements for notifications :

• 1 notification per service (aliexpress, prime-gaming...) or 1 notification per run of the app where we get all the info condensed.
• For discord, an embed would be nice like this :

Here is the code for this specific one (hardcoded for course) just to give you an idea of how it looks (basically just a json you send to discord instead of pure text)

const embed = new EmbedBuilder()
  .setAuthor({
    name: "Free Game Claimer",
    iconURL: "https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/493741/214589922-093d6557-6393-421c-b577-da58ff3671bc.png",
  })
  .setDescription("```\nEpic-games (username):\n\n- Garden Story (failed),\n- World War Z: Aftermath (failed)',\n\nPrime-gaming (username):\n\n- Sine Mora EX (claimed),\n- Night Reverie (claimed),\n- Redemption Reapers (claimed on epic games store),\n- Yes, Your Grace (redeem XXXXXXX on gog.com),\n- Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut (redeem XXXXX on gog.com)'\n```")
  .addFields(
    {
      name: "Epic Games",
      value: "2",
      inline: true
    },
    {
      name: "Prime Gaming",
      value: "5",
      inline: true
    },
    {
      name: "GOG",
      value: "0",
      inline: true
    },
    {
      name: "Aliexpress",
      value: "Points: 2573 (+20)",
      inline: false
    },
  )
  .setColor("#00b0f4");

await message.reply({ embeds: [embed] });

[timothe]

Testing epic-games, prime-gaming and gog on a fresh dev branch install on a M1 Macbook.
Using SHOW=1, UK accounts.

• epic-games: completed without captcha!
• prime-gaming: issue with logging. Asking for a passkey? See below
• gog: asked a 2FA code, which didn't appear a second time

I also tested the Docker image, and have the "incorrect response" issue with epic-games. No issue with the others.

[vogler]

Thanks! That fits what I saw.
AliExpress 'Collect' worked for me yesterday, will try again.
Also got the prime-gaming passkey thing (I get that it's safer, but the Google implementation is really annoying and too intrusive/slow), maybe this can be avoided by some query param or browser setting.
Redeeming keys from prime-gaming on gog now also works again (before I had to do it via the redeem link due to captcha):

@hvmzx The notifications have to be cleaned up anyway.

Also, it seems I am not getting notifications when yesterday I got :

That's how it should be if you already claimed them: it checks in data/epic-games.json and only sends this notification once, otherwise you'd get it every day if you run it every day. See #449.

It's already collecting claimed games and only sends the notification at the end. Only for things that you may want to react to (not logged in, solve captcha) it should send them right away.

Collecting across services could be done after changing to a common CLI entrypoint, but not in the current state since the scripts are run independently from each other. Not sure how much of a problem this is though, other people may prefer it like it is at the moment. Can't you mute the bot to not have it disturb you?

Embed thing could be done, but at the moment everything goes through apprise, not sure if you want custom code for it if they don't support it. OTOH if e.g. 80% use discord for notifications anyway, it may make sense.
Does it support HTML for links? That's another problem, that some services don't and break if you give them HTML. I think that's why I changed most to Markdown which should work as text if the service doesn't parse it.

[meilon]

Tested epic without docker: Login worked, but it didn't buy the game. Issue was that, even though the en-US url was used the browser was still in my systems language, therefore epic displayed the buttons etc. not in english.
Why was

free-games-claimer/epic-games.js

Line 26 in 3d25737

// locale: 'en-US', // ignore OS locale to be sure to have english text for locators

commented out? Adding it back in added the game to my library.

[vogler]

@meilon Thanks! Mistake. Tried Cursor for its tab completion, but it's often more problematic than useful...