Get steamID by user nickname

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

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.