VanBanChecker provides an easy and handy way to check which player has been banned by Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC). VAC is an automated system used to detect cheats installed on a user’s computer. To maintain the integrity of games on Steam, users banned by VAC are banned from playing certain games.
Use VacBanChecker to help you find out if there is a cheater on your team!
(See the next section for visual instructions)
- Open and view the raw code for vaccheck.min.js.
- Select all the raw code (
Ctrl + A). - Copy all the selected raw code (
Ctrl + C, or right-click and selectCopy). - Bookmark this page.
- Edit the URL of the bookmark by right-clicking the new bookmark and selecting
Edit. In the URL or Location field, paste the contents of vaccheck.min.js that are copied in the step 3. You can change the Name field of the bookmark too, such as "Vac Checker"! - Navigate to your friend's Recently Played With page on Steam. (You could probably bookmark that too! 😉)
- Click the bookmarklet and it will use the Steam API to get a list of VAC bans for those users on that page.
Pro Tip: This bookmarklet also works under the other tabs on that page, including the "All Friends" tab! And it also works on your friend's friends list! Just go to their profile page, click "Friends" on the right panel, and use the bookmarklet to see their friend's vac bans!
Updated API key
Added groups support! To use, visit a group page, click on "View All" under the group members section, and run the bookmarklet to see who in the group has been VAC/OW banned!
Credits go out to iEyepawd from this reddit post. His idea inspired me to write a version that can be easily used as a bookmarklet.