Just wondering if there's any way to find the number of players on a server using a script of some sort.
I know you can find pictures of players, game thumbnails, etc. So I wouldn't be surprised if I could find the number of players on a server.
COMMUNITY QUESTION
Can I See How Many People Are On a Server With a Script?
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NumPlayers
The Players service has a property called NumPlayers which is the number of players in the server. That would be the easiest way to get it.
local PlayersInServer = game.Players.NumPlayers
GetPlayers()
The other way would be by using the GetPlayers() method on the Players service. GetPlayers() returns a table with all the players in the server, and because it's a table, we can use the # operator on the table to return the amount of elements in the table, which in our case is the amount of players in the server.
local PlayersInServer = #game.Players:GetPlayers()
Both of these methods will always work fine. Hope this helped!
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GetPlayers or GetChildren same thing xD
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But using GetChildren will return everything or anything inside the Players folder. By that I mean, it will return things that is not a Player.
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Yeah but meh I doubt you often have non players stuff inside Players
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So, Korean? Whats wrong with taking the extra precaution? Plus it's shorter and more inferred as to what the script is trying to do.
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Question? Would this work on seeing other server's players? Like if I had a lobby server, could I see how many people would be on one of the other servers?
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Not with just this method. To access other servers you'll probably need to use API's or DataStores. I'm not too familiar with either of those though
game.Players.NumPlayers or #game.Players:GetChildren()
NumPlayers or GetPlayers()
EDIT
NumPlayers is an easy way, Example: in the command bar i type "print(game.Players.NumPlayers)" and it prints 0 because im in studio, not play solo or something. GetPlayers() is when you want to get every player and do something with them, Example: Teleporting them all
-- this is an example
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
if player.Character then
player.Character:MoveTo(Vector3.new(0, 50, 0))
end
end
if you weed more info go to the wiki pages
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.NumPlayers property of Players Service.
yeah or #