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Steam is an entertainment platform, payment system, and community for video games. Steam also provides simple API's and OpenID endpoints for user authentication. Use this tag for question relating to Steam or its OpenID endpoint.

Steam is an entertainment platform, payment system, and community for video games. It runs on Windows, Mac OSX, and Debian-based Linux.

Valve provides APIs so website developers can use data from Steam in new and interesting ways.

They allow developers to query Steam for information that they can present on their own sites.

To use most of the Web-APIs, you will need an API key, provided by Valve.

All of the officially supported end points are available using the GetSupportedAPIList end point.

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Getting someone's Steam inventory

I am making a website that needs to access the Steam inventory of the user. I found an API to get Team Fortress 2 inventory, Dota 2, CS:S, CS:GO and Portal 2. But I didn't find any API for getting Steam inventory. Is it possible to access a user's…
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Steam Market API?

I know that there's a Steam API allowing me to use data from Steam Community. My question is, does anyone know if there's a Steam Market API? For example, I want to get the current price of an item in the Steam Market. I've googled and haven't found…
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How to implement Steam Auth with Firebase?

All I found was this old answer: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firebase-talk/rApG8QQd6t4 Does a fellow SOer know any information or could a Firebase engineer provide a more detailed answer? I am currently trying to authenticate the user…
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"Steam" added items that can run in the background

I'm now on MacOS Ventura 13.1. Recently, a pop-up window often appears on my pc. "Background Items Added" "Steam" added items that can run in the background. You can manage this in Login Items Settings. The first time when I saw this notification,…
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In Unity, How to Stop Popup for "Show Unity Splashscreen"

I'm just now learning how to use Unity to mess around in SteamVR. Every time I press the play button to test out my scene, I get this annoying popup. The tutorial I'm following doesn't have this problem. How can I get the popup to go away for good?…
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Steam API Authentication

Before I get started, let me say I know absolutely nothing about OpenID. I don't even want to do what OpenID is used for, but I imagine people will mention it, but thats not what I'm looking for. I have software. That software requires users to…
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How to get the price of an app in Steam WebAPI?

Is there a possibility to get the price of a game from Steam over the WebAPI?
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steam login using openID in android

Iam new to android development. my project is to make an application using steam public API but i couldn't figure out how to allow the user to login using steam account. Steam's web API documentation states that i should use openID, So i searched…
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Using Chrome's cookies in Python-Requests

I'm trying to log in to the http://www.steampowered.com website using the cookies I've got from my Chrome session. Once I've grabbed all the cookie table's data, using the command SELECT * FROM cookie WHERE host_key LIKE '%steam%' and the column…
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Find steam games folder

How can I get to a Steam game folder without hardcoding it? Instead of hardcoding C:\Steam\steamapps\common\\GameData in my code can I use something involving the steamappid of a game to obtain this information automatically?
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SteamID64 minimum and maximum length

Simple question that no one seems to know. What is the minimum and maximum length of SteamID64?
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Steam API login isn't working - Is there another way?

As the project seems deprecated somehow, is there any other solution? Paul van Assen wrote a library (https://github.com/pvanassen/steam-api) which helps to login and other interacting things with steam. The only thing that isn't working for me is…
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Get the price of an item on Steam Community Market with PHP and Regex

I'm trying to use PHP to get the Steam Community Market price of an item. I take a url (for example : http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/730/StatTrak%E2%84%A2%20P250%20%7C%20Steel%20Disruption%20%28Factory%20New%29) and then I download the…
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To disable steam overlay

I have the following setup for the game: launcher.exe - starts under Steam on Windows and provides some settings UI for the user. Then launcher.exe starts actual game.exe. Problem is that the launcher.exe is using H/W accelerated UI - uses…
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Steam for Linux platform libraries causing Qt application misbehavior

I'm currently having difficulties with a very simple launcher application that's intended to display a webpage and have some buttons to launch a game. When you click a link inside of the launcher it is intended to simply launch your default…
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