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How to Identify Profile Backgrounds

By Aevoa and 3 collaborators

This guide explains how to quickly and easily identify a Steam background on someone's profile without the need to ask them or try to look through their possibly private inventory.

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Guide Index

Overview

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UPDATE

Introduction

Browser Method

Steam Client Method

NOTE

Discord

Closing Notes

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just use https://tools.moe.me/steam_profile_background/

UPDATE

UPDATE!

For an easier, automated method, visit the guide below instead.
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1389088390

Introduction

Below are two methods for finding a Steam background. The first one is done in a browser, and the second is done within the Steam client.

NOTE: If you have a background image URL but just need to find it on the community market, please view the "NOTE" section.

Browser Method

Open up your browser. I suggest using Firefox.

Load a Steam profile with a background that you're interested in and right click it.
Select "View Background Image".

Now, open Google Images in a new tab and simply drag and drop the background into Google Images. In the results it will display the background's community market link.

If you do not wish to use Google Images, look at the URL of the background image and copy the numbers after "public/images/items". This is the app ID of the game the background came from. Copy this number. (Yours will be different than mine.)

Paste the numbers you copied in a Steam store URL. This URL should look something like the image below.

This will direct you to the game the background is from. After finding out the game's name, you can simply go to the community market and search for the background.

Steam Client Method

Once you've found a profile with a background that you're interested in, right click it.
Select "View Source...".

After selecting "View Source...", a text document will open on your computer.

After the text document has opened, you'll want to type Ctrl+F (or ⌘-F for mac users).
This will open a word search window in the text document. Search for "public/images/items".

Once "public/images/items" is located, there is a number right next to it. This is the app ID of the game the background came from. Copy this number. (Yours will be different than mine.)

Paste the numbers you copied in a Steam store URL. This URL should look something like the image below.

This will direct you to the game the background is from. After finding out the game's name, you can simply go to the community market and search for the background.

NOTE

Every Steam background URL has an app ID after "public/images/items", so you can use the final step of this guide to find the store page of any background's game.

I hope this guide helps some. Thanks.

Discord

For more profile help, visit the discord: https://discord.gg/FPbANZu

Closing Notes

More Guides:

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=727014963
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=693118839
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=693394614
http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=299701202

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144 Comments

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SavageCore 9 Jan @ 2:47am

I wrote a user script to add a link to the point shop, essentially automating these steps. Find it here: https://github.com/SavageCore/steam-profile-background-finder

︵djolaf 16 Oct, 2023 @ 11:34am

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benny 29 May, 2023 @ 3:42am

method seems to work but couldn't locate the item i was after. i found /public/images/items/1492660/ in the profile i was hunting down the background for (animated dancing bugs or cockroaches or something) but none of those were in the market.

discontinued background maybe?