#protobuf #steam-client #steam-vent

steam-vent-proto

Protobuf structs used by the Steam client protocol

7 releases (4 breaking)

0.5.2 Oct 19, 2025
0.5.1 Oct 18, 2025
0.5.0 Sep 29, 2024
0.4.0 May 5, 2024
0.1.0 Jun 19, 2021

#657 in Game dev


Used in 3 crates (2 directly)

MIT license

22MB
452K SLoC

Protobufs for steam-vent

Sourced from https://github.com/SteamDatabase/Protobufs

Updating generated code

cd build
cargo r -- ../steam/{protos,src/generated}
cargo r -- ../../proto-csgo/{protos,src/generated}
cargo r -- ../../proto-dota2/{protos,src/generated}
cargo r -- ../../proto-tf2/{protos,src/generated}

Using custom protobufs

If you need to use protobufs that aren't packages by steam-vent, you can create a new package for the protobufs using the following steps:

  1. Create a new crate

  2. Add steam-vent-proto-common as a dependency

  3. Place the protobufs in src/protos

  4. Create an empty src/generated folder

  5. Either install steam-vent-proto-build trough cargo-install or clone this repo and build it from the build directory.

  6. Run steam-vent-proto-build path/to/src/protos path/to/src/generated

  7. Create src/lib.rs with the following contents:

    mod generated;
    
    pub use generated::*;
    

Dependencies

~2–13MB
~250K SLoC