Http Service issues?
So, I'm making a Player information module, and essentially what this does is get the player information from their profile using a Roblox Http Service proxy. For some reason, it is erroring telling me that It can't find the string I'm looking for to get a user's join date. Can someone help me with this? Here's the code.
--\\ Player Information Module
--\\ Use this to get the information of a player. ie: Join Date, Place visits, etc
--\\ HttpService must be enabled for this to work to its full extent.
local Player = {}
local HttpService = game:GetService('HttpService')
function Player:GetJoinDate(Id)
local Link = 'http://rproxy.pw/users/'..Id..'/profile' -- The link to the players profile.
local String = [[<p class="rbx-lead">%d+/%d+/%d+</p>]] -- A string to help find the join date. (Got from inspect element)
local Find = HttpService:GetAsync (Link, true):match(String) -- Finds the string.
local JoinDate = Find:match('%d+/%d+/%d+') -- Matches the join date thats inside the string.
return JoinDate
end
return Player
Here is what it is erroring.
15:55:43.487 - Content failed because HTTP 403 (HTTP/1.1 403 Asset is not trusted for this place) 15:55:45.844 - ServerScriptService.ModuleScript:13: attempt to index local 'Find' (a nil value) 15:55:45.845 - Stack Begin 15:55:45.845 - Script 'ServerScriptService.ModuleScript', Line 13 - method GetJoinDate 15:55:45.845 - Script 'ServerScriptService.Script', Line 17 15:55:45.846 - Stack End 15:57:30.090 - Auto-Saving... 16:02:30.084 - Auto-Saving...
1 answer
- is a special character. It means "match one or more". Thus the pattern rbx-lead does not match "rbx-lead", it matches "rbxlead" or "rbxxlead" or ...
You can escape it with %-.
You shouldn't write code that can error! If for some reason the player doesn't have it (e.g., that user doesn't exist?) then your module will error because you call :match on something that could be nil.
If Find is nil you should immediately return (probably nil to indicate failure).
You can actually avoid the second :match altogether though. You can use () to mark what part of the string you want to capture:
return HttpService:GetAsync(link, true):match [[<p class="rbx%-lead">(%d+/%d+/%d+)</p>]]
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