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
})
})
