AD Draft AutoShot - automatic draft screenshot

Takes the Ability Draft screenshot automatically at the exact moment the game switches from drafting to STRATEGY TIME. No hotkey needed anymore: draft ends, screenshot happens, your Streamlabs overlay updates itself.

Works while playing (not only spectating): it uses Dota's official Game State Integration, which reports your own game's phase changes. No game files are modified and it is completely allowed (no anti-cheat risk, this is a Valve-provided feature for streamers).

Download: click the green Code button above > Download ZIP, then unzip it anywhere.

Files

• autoshot.ps1 - the listener that waits for the phase change and takes the screenshot. Pure Windows PowerShell, nothing to install.
• start_autoshot.bat - starts the listener. This is the only thing you run.
• gamestate_integration_autoshot.cfg - the config that tells Dota to report game phases. Goes into your Dota folder (step 2).

Setup

Step 1: Put this folder somewhere permanent

For example C:\screenshot\. If you already have a manual screenshot hotkey setup (e.g. an AutoHotkey script), put these files in the SAME folder: the automatic screenshot is saved as screenshot.png right next to autoshot.ps1, so your existing Streamlabs image sources keep working without any change. The hotkey keeps working too, as a manual backup.

If you set up fresh: in Streamlabs/OBS add Image sources pointing at screenshot.png in this folder (typically one source per team, cropped to the Radiant / Dire half of the draft screen).

Step 2: Install the Dota config (this is "installing GSI", one-time)

1. Open Steam > Library > right-click Dota 2 > Manage > Browse local files. A folder opens.
2. In that folder, go into: game > dota > cfg > gamestate_integration. If the gamestate_integration folder does not exist, create it (right-click > New > Folder, name it exactly gamestate_integration).
3. Copy gamestate_integration_autoshot.cfg from this kit into that folder.
4. Restart Dota if it was running.

That's all GSI is: one config file that tells Dota "report the game phase to this local address". Dota does the rest by itself.

Step 3: Start the listener

Double-click start_autoshot.bat. A console window opens and logs what's happening. Leave it open (minimized is fine). Screenshot triggers only work while this window is running.

Autostart with Windows (optional): press Win+R, type shell:startup, Enter, and put a shortcut to start_autoshot.bat into the folder that opens.

Test it (2 minutes)

Start the listener, then create a bot match / lobby in Ability Draft mode and draft. The console window logs every phase change, and the moment the game jumps to STRATEGY TIME you'll see "screenshot saved". Done.

Troubleshooting

• Console shows nothing during a game: the .cfg is not in the right folder, or Dota wasn't restarted after copying it.
• Window closes immediately on start: start start_autoshot.bat again; if it keeps happening, another program is using port 3211. Change $Port at the top of autoshot.ps1 AND the port in the .cfg to e.g. 3212.
• Screenshot is black: switch Dota from Exclusive Fullscreen to Borderless Window (Video settings).
• Wrong monitor: the capture takes the primary monitor. Dota must run on the primary monitor.

Tuning (top of autoshot.ps1)

• $DelayMs - wait after the phase flip before capturing (default 500 ms)
• $CooldownSec - re-trigger guard (default 60 s)

Optional: Version B (Steam Web API swap correction)

Not needed for the normal setup. Players can still swap heroes after the draft (strategy time, pre-game, up to the horn), and the screenshot cannot know that. Version B takes the same screenshot, then asks Valve's Steam Web API for the live roster of your match until the horn and, when two players traded heroes, exchanges their two names inside screenshot.png.

The difference in one line: the standard version is a screenshot and nothing else; Version B additionally needs a free Steam Web API key, "Game details = Public" on your Steam profile, and Dota in English. If you never care about post-draft swaps, ignore it.

Everything for it is in the folder version-b-steam-api/ with its own README (EN + RU). Run only one of the two listeners at a time.

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Built by BloppBOT for the Ability Draft community. MIT licensed: use it, share it, break it, fix it.