> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://devdocs.xbox.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Link Steam Account > Links the Steam account associated with the provided Steam authentication ticket to the user's PlayFab account ## Error codes This operation may return the following PlayFab errors: | Error | Code | | --- | --- | | AccountAlreadyLinked | 1011 | | AccountLinkedToABannedPlayer | 1613 | | InvalidSteamTicket | 1010 | | LinkedAccountAlreadyClaimed | 1012 | | SteamNotEnabledForTitle | 1258 | | SteamUserNotFound | 1513 | ## OpenAPI ````yaml post /Client/LinkSteamAccount openapi: 3.0.0 info: version: '260922' title: PlayFab Client API description: >- APIs which provide the full range of PlayFab features available to the client - authentication, account and data management, inventory, friends, matchmaking, reporting, and platform-specific functionality termsOfService: https://playfab.com/terms/ contact: url: https://community.playfab.com/index.html license: name: Apache 2.0 url: https://github.com/PlayFab/API_Specs/blob/master/LICENSE servers: - url: https://{titleId}.playfabapi.com description: PlayFab title endpoint variables: titleId: default: your_title_id description: Your PlayFab title ID (hex). security: [] tags: - name: Account Management description: Account Management APIs - name: Advertising description: Advertising APIs - name: Analytics description: Analytics APIs - name: Authentication description: Authentication APIs - name: Character Data description: Character Data APIs - name: Characters description: Characters APIs - name: Content description: Content Service APIs - name: Friend List Management description: Friend List Management APIs - name: Matchmaking description: Matchmaking APIs - name: Platform Specific Methods description: Platform Specific Methods APIs - name: Player Data Management description: Player Data Management APIs - name: Player Item Management description: Player Item Management APIs - name: PlayStream description: PlayStream Management APIs - name: Server-Side Cloud Script description: Server-Side Cloud Script APIs - name: Shared Group Data description: Shared Group Data APIs - name: Title-Wide Data Management description: Title-Wide Data Management APIs - name: Trading description: Trading Management APIs paths: /Client/LinkSteamAccount: post: tags: - Account Management summary: Link Steam Account description: > Links the Steam account associated with the provided Steam authentication ticket to the user's PlayFab account ## Error codes This operation may return the following PlayFab errors: | Error | Code | | --- | --- | | AccountAlreadyLinked | 1011 | | AccountLinkedToABannedPlayer | 1613 | | InvalidSteamTicket | 1010 | | LinkedAccountAlreadyClaimed | 1012 | | SteamNotEnabledForTitle | 1258 | | SteamUserNotFound | 1513 | operationId: LinkSteamAccount requestBody: content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/LinkSteamAccountRequest' description: >- Steam authentication is accomplished with the Steam Session Ticket. More information on the Ticket can be found in the Steamworks SDK, here: https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/auth (requires sign-in). NOTE: For Steam authentication to work, the title must be configured with the Steam Application ID and Publisher Key in the PlayFab Game Manager (under Properties). Information on creating a Publisher Key (referred to as the Secret Key in PlayFab) for your title can be found here: https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/webapi#publisherkey. responses: '200': $ref: '#/components/responses/LinkSteamAccountResult' '400': $ref: '#/components/responses/ApiErrorWrapper' security: - SessionTicket: [] components: schemas: LinkSteamAccountRequest: description: >- Steam authentication is accomplished with the Steam Session Ticket. More information on the Ticket can be found in the Steamworks SDK, here: https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/auth (requires sign-in). NOTE: For Steam authentication to work, the title must be configured with the Steam Application ID and Publisher Key in the PlayFab Game Manager (under Properties). Information on creating a Publisher Key (referred to as the Secret Key in PlayFab) for your title can be found here: https://partner.steamgames.com/documentation/webapi#publisherkey. type: object properties: CustomTags: description: >- The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.). type: object ForceLink: description: >- If another user is already linked to the account, unlink the other user and re-link. type: boolean SteamTicket: description: >- Authentication token for the user, returned as a byte array from Steam, and converted to a string (for example, the byte 0x08 should become "08"). type: string TicketIsServiceSpecific: description: >- True if ticket was generated using ISteamUser::GetAuthTicketForWebAPI() using "AzurePlayFab" as the identity string. False if the ticket was generated with ISteamUser::GetAuthSessionTicket(). type: boolean required: - SteamTicket example: SteamTicket: steamTicketID TicketIsServiceSpecific: true LinkSteamAccountResult: type: object properties: {} ApiErrorWrapper: description: The basic wrapper around every failed API response type: object properties: code: description: Numerical HTTP code type: integer status: description: String HTTP code type: string error: description: Playfab error code type: string errorCode: description: Numerical PlayFab error code type: integer errorMessage: description: Description for the PlayFab errorCode type: string errorDetails: description: Detailed description of individual issues with the request object type: object required: - code - errorCode responses: LinkSteamAccountResult: description: '' content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: code: type: integer description: >- The Http status code. If X-ReportErrorAsSuccess header is set to true, this will report the actual http error code. status: type: string description: The Http status code as a string. data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/LinkSteamAccountResult' ApiErrorWrapper: description: This is the outer wrapper for all responses with errors content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorWrapper' securitySchemes: SessionTicket: type: apiKey in: header name: X-Authorization description: >- This API requires a client session ticket, available from any Client Login function. ```` ## Related topics - [Link Steam Account](/api-reference/account-management/link-steam-account.md) - [PFAccountManagementLinkSteamAccountRequest](/services/playfab/api-references/c/pfaccountmanagementtypes/structs/pfaccountmanagementlinksteamaccountrequest.md) - [PFAccountManagementClientLinkSteamAccountAsync](/services/playfab/api-references/c/pfaccountmanagement/functions/pfaccountmanagementclientlinksteamaccountasync.md) - [Account linking strategies for PlayFab Game Saves](/services/playfab/player-progression/game-saves/linking.md) - [PFAccountManagementClientUnlinkSteamAccountAsync](/services/playfab/api-references/c/pfaccountmanagement/functions/pfaccountmanagementclientunlinksteamaccountasync.md)