capraibex

I wrote a little something to fix that problem a year ago. It's a command line utility that takes the IDs of workshop items (only tested it on missions) as arguments, finds the current download URL using the Steamworks Web API and downloads them to a specified location. It's very easy to use if you run on a Linux dedicated server (which I of course think you should ). It's written in C using libcurl, so getting it to compile on Windows might be a bit tedious. Considering this, a Python version would probably be a good idea. I've been using it on my server for a while, and I'm quite happy with it. You could use cron to schedule regular updates, or configure your system to update on reboot. It has its limitations, and possibly some problems I've not yet encountered, so feel free to fork it if you can think of improvements.