Get steamID by user nickname

php steam-web-api
Dmitriy Zhura picture Dmitriy Zhura · Oct 8, 2013 · Viewed 27.8k times · Source

Is it possible to get user's steamID by his nickname? I didn't find solution in steam API documentation. The only one thing that I found is an old post on http://dev.dota2.com :

You can use this to search the Dota2 API directly using the player_name option of GetMatchHistory You can then find their 32-bit ID in the list and then convert it to a 64-bit ID.

But now GetMatchHistory function does not have player_name parameter. Now it requires account_id.

So how the websites like http://dotabuff.com/search?q=Dendi get this info?

Answer

barsanuphe picture barsanuphe · May 7, 2014

You can use

GET http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/ResolveVanityURL/v0001/

to get the SteamID from the custom URL of a Steam Profile. See http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/WebAPI/ResolveVanityURL

You can't get the steamID from someone's current nickname because nicknames can change and are not unique.

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