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Steam Chat

Name: Steam Chat
Author: Valve Software

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The Steam Chat bot fetches previews of URLs shared within the Steam client's chat feature. Operated by Valve Software.

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Assessment

Page Preview

What is Steam Chat?

Steam Chat is a web crawler operated by Valve Software. The Steam Chat bot fetches previews of URLs shared within the Steam client's chat feature.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Steam Chat

Operator

Valve Software

Why it crawls your site

Steam Chat crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Valve Software as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Steam Chat

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for SteamChat in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Steam Chat from crawling your entire site
User-agent: SteamChat
Disallow: /

# Allow Steam Chat full access
User-agent: SteamChat
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows SteamChat. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Valve Software's documentation.