Warframe-Market-Overlay
A Python OCR overlay that reads item names off your Warframe screen and shows live warframe.market prices in-game.
Overview
Warframe-Market-Overlay is an open-source (GPL-3.0) Python desktop overlay that uses Tesseract OCR to read item names displayed on your Warframe screen, then queries the warframe.market API to show top seller prices, averages, and ducat values in movable in-game windows. It is triggered by hotkeys (Ctrl+Shift+F to scan, Ctrl+Shift+H to toggle) and supports resizable/saveable layouts and UI scaling for 4K. It is a small hobby project by developer JonathanSourdough, functional but described as not fully optimized. The repository has had no code pushed since December 2022.
Best for: Warframe traders on Windows who are comfortable installing Python and Tesseract and want an in-game price overlay without alt-tabbing to warframe.market.
Key features
- Real-time on-screen item scanning via Tesseract OCR
- Live warframe.market pricing: top seller prices, averages, ducat values
- Hotkey-driven (Ctrl+Shift+F scan, Ctrl+Shift+H toggle visibility)
- Movable/resizable info and search windows
- Save/load multiple layouts
- UI scaling up to 2x for 4K monitors
- WTS/WTB (sell vs buy) listing-type selection
Pros & cons
- Free and open source (GPL-3.0) — code is inspectable
- Uses screen OCR rather than game-memory reading, the lower-risk overlay approach
- No account login or credentials required; only reads the public warframe.market API
- Convenient in-game price lookups without alt-tabbing
- Configurable layouts and 4K/UI scaling
- Effectively unmaintained — no commits since December 2022
- Very small adoption (37 stars) and no discoverable reviews or tutorials
- Manual setup required: install Python and Tesseract OCR and add to PATH
- Developer notes it is functional but not fully optimized
- Windows-focused; OCR accuracy depends on resolution/settings
- Standard third-party overlay caution applies to Warframe ToS
Community sentiment
No external community discussion (Reddit, YouTube, Trustpilot, Product Hunt) could be located within this research session, so sentiment cannot be honestly characterized from user feedback. The only measurable signal is GitHub adoption, which is modest: 37 stars, 2 forks, and 4 open issues, with no commits since December 2022, indicating a small niche audience and an effectively dormant project.
From Reddit
From Reddit · r/Warframe →Reviews & ratings
- GitHub repository (stars/forks/issues)
“Repository description: 'This is an overlay written in Python for the purpose of reading the screen in Warframe, and reporting the values from warframe.market associated with that item.' Created April 8, 2020; GPL-3.0; not archived but no commits since Dec 2022.”