Get steamID by user nickname - php

Question

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 1

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.

Answer 2

This is JS answer, not PHP, but anyway
You can use this url address to get list of users from steamcommunity.com/search/
page
https://steamcommunity.com/search/SearchCommunityAjax?text=aaa&filter=users&sessionid=session&steamid_user=false&page=1
text means username, sessionid means sessionid from cookie files, which you can obtain by going to the site itself
Here is my crappy code for demo:
let axios = require('axios').default;
//create axios instance from which we will get to the search list
let instance = axios.create({ baseURL: 'https://steamcommunity.com' });
async function getSessionId() {
let res = await axios.get('https://steamcommunity.com/');
let [cookie] = res.headers['set-cookie'];
instance.defaults.headers.Cookie = cookie;
return cookie;
}
getSessionId().then(cookie => {
let session = cookie.split(' ')[0].slice(10, -1);
instance.get(`https://steamcommunity.com/search/SearchCommunityAjax?text=aaa&filter=users&sessionid=${session}&steamid_user=false&page=1`).then(res => {
//i have regex
let regex = /('<div>')/|/('<img>')/|/('<span>')/g
//html also
let arr = res.data.html.split(regex).join('').split('\t').join('').split('\n').join('').split('\r');
arr = arr.filter(a => a !== '');
arr = arr.filter(a => a.includes("searchPersonaName"));
let result = [];
arr.forEach(a => {
let [link, name] = a.replace('<a class="searchPersonaName" href="','').replace('</a><br />','').split('">');
let obj = {
link,
name
};
result.push(obj);
});
console.log(result); //logs out array of objects with links and usernames
})
})

Answer 3

Using PHP and the Steam Condenser project, you can accomplish this.
require_once('steam/steam-condenser.php');
$playername = 'NAMEOFPLAYER';
try
{
$id = SteamId::create($playername);
}
catch (SteamCondenserException $s)
{
// Error occurred
}
echo $id->getSteamId;
There are usage examples in the wiki for the project if you need more information.

Answer 4

Here is my solution for this problem:
module.exports.getProfile = async (req, res) => {
let response = { success: false, data: {}, error: {} }
let { profileAddress } = req.body;
if (profileAddress) {
try {
let steamId;
let split = profileAddress.split('/');
split = split.filter(arrayItem => arrayItem != '');
if (split[split.length - 2] === 'profiles') {
steamId = split[split.length - 1]
} else {
let vanityUrl = split[split.length - 1];
let steamIdResponse = await axios.get(
`http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/ResolveVanityURL/v0001/?key=${process.env.steamApiKey}&vanityurl=${vanityUrl}`,
);
if (steamIdResponse.data.response.success === 1) {
steamId = steamIdResponse.data.response.steamid;
} else {
response.error = steamIdResponse.data.response.message;
}
}
let profileResponse = await axios.get(
`http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/GetPlayerSummaries/v0002/?key=${process.env.steamApiKey}&steamids=${steamId}`,
);
if (profileResponse.data.response.players[0]) {
response = {
success: true,
data: profileResponse.data.response.players[0],
error: null
}
res.status(200);
} else {
response.error = response.error ? response.error : "Failed to get Profile.";
res.status(500);
}
res.send(response);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error)
response.error = "Failed to get Profile."
res.status(500).send(response);
}
} else {
response.error = "Profile URL missing."
res.status(500).send(response);
}
};

Answer 5

Simple way if you are not using an api
Go to your steam profile page
Right Click -> Inspect Element -> Ctrl + F (Find) -> Type 'steamid' (Without quotes)
Thank me later :)

Answer 6

Have you read over this from the Steam Web API?
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_Web_API#GetPlayerSummaries_.28v0002.29
It has an example of using a steam profile url to return the users Steam ID, also some other arguments to gather other information.
If you read down a bit from there it states that "Returns the friend list of any Steam user
Example URL: http://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/GetFriendList/v0001/?key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&steamid=76561197960435530&relationship=friend"
you can add the arguments for profile information to be returned such as the Steam ID providing the profile is public.