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How to find your Steam ID

Your Steam ID is the unique number tied to your account, and sooner or later something asks for it. A game server, a stats site, a trade bot, a friend trying to add you the reliable way. The tricky part is that Steam has several ID formats and does not exactly put the number front and center. Here is how to get it, three different ways.

The fastest option is to paste your profile link into our Steam ID Finder, which spits out every format at once. If you would rather find it yourself, read on.

The quickest way: your profile URL

Every Steam account has a profile URL, and the ID is often sitting right in it.

  1. Open Steam in a browser and go to your profile, or in the desktop app click your name at the top and pick View Profile.
  2. Look at the address bar.
  3. If the link looks like steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198XXXXXXXXX, that long 17-digit number is your SteamID64. Done.

If instead you see steamcommunity.com/id/somename, you set a custom URL, and the name is hiding the number. Paste that link into the ID Finder to get the actual SteamID64.

In the Steam desktop client

You can turn on a setting that shows the ID right in the app.

  1. Open Steam and go to Steam, then Settings.
  2. Open the Interface section.
  3. Turn on the option to display the Steam URL address bar when available.
  4. Now open your profile inside the client and the URL, ID included, shows at the top.

On the mobile app

The mobile app hides the URL more, so the easiest path is still the profile link.

  1. Open your profile in the app.
  2. Tap the menu and choose to copy or share the profile link.
  3. Paste that link into the ID Finder to read the number.

Which ID format do you actually need?

It depends on what asked for it.

  • Most modern sites and servers want the SteamID64, the 17-digit number.
  • Some older games use the STEAM_0:1:XXXX format.
  • Source games and admin tools sometimes use the [U:1:XXXX] format.

If you are not sure, grab the SteamID64. It is the one that works nearly everywhere, and the finder gives you the others alongside it.

Common problems

My profile URL has a name, not a number. You have a custom vanity URL. The number still exists, it is just not shown. Use the finder to convert the name.

The site says my ID is invalid. Check you copied the whole 17 digits with no spaces, and that you did not grab a friend's ID by mistake from a shared link.