Getting Steam info such as username about godotsteam HOT 11 CLOSED

Brilliant. Thank you. I'll have a play around with these.

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Hi. Hopefully a quickie, but if I were to do the following;

Steam.requestUserInformation(steam_id, true)

What is the signal that I need to setup a listener for? And what parameters does this take. Sorry if it's mentioned already on your docs but I couldn't see it.

Strangely, I tried getFriendPersonaName but it returns a different username. I might need to debug this a little more, but I thought I'd try the other function too.

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Ah, ok maybe the quicker one is best. I'm not sure why I'm passing the wrong steam ID but must be an error at my end. I'll look into that. Thanks for your response.

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Hey there and welcome! Glad to hear everything is working. With their Steam ID you can get some information like username, avatar, etc. I believe the function you want is getFriendPersonaName().

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Sorry, I just edited my original post. Again, you're too quick to respond :)

That looks useful, but does it only allow me to only obtain friend profiles? Contributors might not be friends.

The alternative is I just use the Steam ID e.g. "Content created by Steve Wright, 41234567898765, 469876434567and 45678098765234"

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Haha, all good. I just woke up exceptional early today!

Through code, you'd use that function. Despite the name, you can get any username from any Steam user even if they are not friends. You may have to also use requestUserInformation() to pull data that your account doesn't have cached locally.

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The function requestUserInformation() should trigger persona_state_change to let you know new data is available. Usually the username and avatar. That should be updated in our docs to reflect what it triggers actually.

What did getFriendPersonaName() return? It will only give you usernames of users you "know about". Typically people you have played with, friends, etc. Otherwise you must request the information with getFriendPersonaName() which will then send you the current name. If you don't need the avatars, pass false to getFriendPersonaName().

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Thanks for that, the callbacks are triggered now. But I'm not seeing the usernames, still steam IDs. I'm doing the following:

func _ready():
  Steam.connect("persona_state_change", self, "_on_Steam_persona_state_change", [], CONNECT_PERSIST)

func someFunc():
  # ...
  for author_id in _author_ids:
    print("requestUserInformation: ", author_id)
    Steam.requestUserInformation(author_id, true)

func _on_Steam_persona_state_change(username, avatar):
  print("=== _on_Steam_persona_state_change")
  print(".. username: ", username)
  print(".. avatar: ", avatar)

Here's what I'm seeing in the output:

_author_ids: [76561199098248638, 76561199635806896]
requestUserInformation: 76561199098248638
requestUserInformation: 76561199635806896

=== _on_Steam_persona_state_change
.. username: 76561198165753551
.. avatar: 2
=== _on_Steam_persona_state_change
.. username: 76561198165753551
.. avatar: 2

I don't seem to see my actual usernames. And they don't match those sent. Plus it takes a LONG time to return > 10 seconds, and one occasion it only returned one of the requests.

When I tried getFriendPersonaName with IDs, it comes back correct with one of them (me) but not with another:

Steam.getFriendPersonaName(76561199635806896) # returns: Martyn Bissett (correct)
Steam.getFriendPersonaName(76561199098248638) # returns: lou.gonzales11 (?? incorrect)

Anyway, not a show stopper but maybe you'll spot something at a glance.

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Hmm. Valve does warn that asking for avatars too will take much longer. I guess pulling all that graphics / buffer data.

Ah, yes, my bad... persona_state_change just tells you that new data for that Steam ID is now available locally. It passes back the Steam ID of the data changed and the flag for what did change.

After you get that callback, you can then re-run getFriendPersonaName or an avatar call which should give you the updated (local) data.

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That second chunk of code you showed, those names are correct but backwards:

• 76561199635806896 is lou.gonzales11
• 76561199098248638 is Martyn Bissett
  According to Steam ID lookups.

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Yeah, if you don't need the avatars, no reason to request them.

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