Get steamID by user nickname

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.


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.


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
  
  })
  
})

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Php

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