EpicGames Free Games

Link to GitHub or Website

Automatically login and find available free games the Epic Games Store. Sends you a prepopulated checkout link so you can complete the checkout after logging in. Supports multiple accounts, login sessions, and scheduled runs.

We use the cookie import method to authenticate users.

This app is hosted on Cocoa as a docker container

https://github.com/trentnbauer/agg/blob/main/docker-compose/epicgames.yml

version: '3'
services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/claabs/epicgames-freegames-node:bullseye-slim@sha256:7dc9e51dd32d8981a40a84e3cc8b1faf8879e07446ff7f3b0d1d7150bc3a7982
    ports:
      - ${PORT:-3000}:3000/udp
      - ${PORT:-3000}:3000/tcp
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - config:/usr/app/config:rw #Mapped to local drive to allow automations syncing cookies files from GitHub
    environment:
      - TZ=$TZ
      - EMAIL=$EMAIL
      - RUN_ON_STARTUP=$RUN_ON_STARTUP
      - BASE_URL=$BASE_URL
      - SMTP_HOST=$SMTP_HOST
      - SMTP_PORT=$SMTP_PORT
      - EMAIL_SENDER_ADDRESS=$EMAIL_SENDER_ADDRESS
      - EMAIL_SENDER_NAME=$EMAIL_SENDER_NAME
      - EMAIL_RECIPIENT_ADDRESS=$EMAIL_RECIPIENT_ADDRESS
      - SMTP_SECURE=$SMTP_SECURE
      - SMTP_USERNAME=$SMTP_USERNAME
      - SMTP_PASSWORD=$SMTP_PASSWORD
    mem_limit: 2G
    logging:
      driver: "json-file"
      options:
        max-size: "5m"
        max-file: "3"
volumes:
  config:

Port	Purpose
3434	WebUI

Host Volume	Container Volume	Purpose
epicgames_config	/usr/app/config	Stores config and cookie files

Cookie Import

1. Follow the official guide to export your cookies

2. Log into Portainer

3. Select Cocoa

4. On the left, select Volumes

5. Click on 'Browse' next to the epicgames_config volume

6. Click on upload

7. Upload your JSON file

8. Edit the config.json file

   1. Download the config.json file

   2. Open the config.json in Visual Studio code

   3. Locate line 35 (accounts), click on the end and then hit enter

   4. Copy and paste the below code block and replace the example email with yours

          {
            "email": "[e-mail]"
          },

   5. Save the file

9. Upload the edited config.json file

10. On the left, click on Stacks

11. Select Epic Games

12. Click on 'Stop this stack', then OK

13. Click on 'Start this stack'