Get steam id doesn't work for chinese personname

[IamFive]

As title

api.get_steam_id('待定')

will return

{
    "response": {
        "success": 42,
        "message": "No match"
    }
}

https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/ResolveVanityURL/v0001?key=785341AE096E92D8084EEDA1B5088A1B&vanityurl=待定

any ideas about this?

[michael-the1]

Because it works on the vanityurl and not the nickname. Vanityurl does not accept Chinese characters (and similar), which makes sense because such characters are not allowed in urls.

[andrewsnowden]

Yeah as Michael says it works on your vanity URL. You can find this by going to your steam profile and looking at the address which will be something like: http://steamcommunity.com/id/vanityurl/. Take whatever is after the id/ part (it will either be a number or an account name that you chose).

[IamFive]

got it. thx. 👍