---
title: "Find a stored Steam Web API key by its plaintext"
method: POST
path: "/v1/admin.findSteamApiKey"
tags: ["admin"]
---

# Find a stored Steam Web API key by its plaintext

`POST /v1/admin.findSteamApiKey`

## Request body

- V1AdminFindSteamApiKeyRequestBody
  - `$schema` string, uri — A URL to the JSON Schema for this object.
  - `key` string, required — The plaintext Steam Web API key to look up. Surrounding whitespace is ignored.

## Response `200`

OK

- V1AdminFindSteamApiKeyResponseBody
  - `$schema` string, uri — A URL to the JSON Schema for this object.
  - `match` V1AdminSteamApiKeyMatch
    - `keyId` string, required
    - `last4` string, required — Last four characters of the plaintext key
    - `type` 'web' | 'publisher', required — Steam Web API key type

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `403` — Forbidden
- `422` — Unprocessable Entity
- `500` — Internal Server Error

## Changes

> 25 revisions in range; 1 not diffed.

- **2026-09-26** `1d8d5a94d9f0` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/steamsets/apis/steamsets-api/changes/v1/admin.findSteamApiKey/post.md)

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