WebAPI
Contents
Common elements
Parameters
All TF2 methods take the following arguments in their URL:
- key
- Your Steam Web API key. Without this, the server will return an HTTP 403 (forbidden) error. A key can be generated here.
- format (Optional)
- The file format to return output in.
json(default)- The JavaScript Object Notation format
xml- Standard XML
vdf- Valve Data Format
Terminology
A "tokenized string" refers to a string containing "#"-prefixed tokens that are replaced with the equivalent string in the game's VDF for the chosen language. For instance, "TF_Weapon_Jar" is defined as "Jar Based Karate" in tf/resource/tf_english.txt (as found in "team fortress 2 content.gcf").
Methods
- GetAppList
- Full list of every publicly facing program in the store/library.
- GetAssetClassInfo
- Asset metadata
- GetAssetPrices
- Prices of items in the economy.
- GetFriendList
- User friend list
- GetGlobalAchievementPercentagesForApp
- Statistics showing how much of the player base have unlocked various achievements.
- GetNewsForApp
- News feed for various games
- GetPlayerAchievements
- Game achievements
- GetPlayerBans
- Player ban/probation status
- GetPlayerItems
- Lists items in a player's backpack.
- GetPlayerSummaries
- User profile data
- GetRarities
- DOTA2 item rarity list.
- GetSchema
- Information about the items in a supporting game.
- GetStoreSections
- DOTA2 store sections.
- GetUGCFileDetails
- UGC file size, local filename, and URL.
- ResolveVanityURL
- Resolve vanity URL parts to a 64 bit ID.
- UpToDateCheck
- Check if a given app version is the most current available.
Notes
List of valid IDs
- 440
- Team Fortress 2
- 520
- Team Fortress 2 Public Beta
- 570
- Dota 2
- 620
- Portal 2
- 816
- Dota 2 internal test
- 205790
- Dota 2 (beta) test
Methods Requiring a 64-bit User ID
Most API requests that take an ID parameter require a 64 bit ID, if one is not readily available a vanity URL part can be resolved via ResolveVanityURL.
Implementations
- Steam Condenser Ruby, PHP, and Java library.
- TF2 Web APpy A small Python class.
- Steamodd Python module.
- OPTF2 online viewer (source code).
- libsc An Objective-C library for iOS (4.0+) and framework for Mac OS X (10.6+).
- tf2api.py A Python module for TF2 items. Used on TF2 Find.
See also
- Feedback for requests, suggestions, and issues.
