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How does Username-To-ID Work? (How to get the ID into a script) [Done]
I have found a user-to-ID API. I do not know how to get the ID from it though. The code is as follows.
if (string.find(msg, "!promote") == 1) then --- msg starts with "!promote"
-- words and numbers
for word in msg:gmatch("%w+") do
if word ~= "!promote" then
local p = matchPlayer(word)
userid = game.HttpService:GetAsync("http://api.roblox.com/users/get-by-username?username="..p)
if p ~= nil then
promouser(userid,GROUPID,RANKID)
end
end
end
end
This is what the API would show for my username.
{"Id":39234598,"Username":"Smaltin", "AvatarUri":null,"AvatarFinal":false,"IsOnline":false}
Any help? Thanks!
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You do not need to do this, you could just use game.Players:GetUserIdFromUsernameAsync() and vice versa TheDeadlyPanther 2460 — 8y
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Ok. Could you put a snippet of code, since I am not advanced with this stuff yet? Akward12345 0 — 8y
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He did: game.Players:GetUserIdFromUsernameAsync() JamesLWalker 297 — 8y
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One way of doing it is using a web API as you have there. But the simpler way of doing this is game.Players:GetUserIdFromNameAsync(p) with p being the player's name as a string. The reverse of this would be game.Players:GetNameFromUserIdAsync(p), again with p being the player's name as a string.
With this put into your code it would be:
if (string.find(msg, "!promote") == 1) then --- msg starts with "!promote"
-- words and numbers
for word in msg:gmatch("%w+") do
if word ~= "!promote" then
local p = matchPlayer(word) -- This returns a string?
if p ~= nil then
userid = game.Players:GetUserIdFromNameAsync(p) -- Put here so doesn't error is p is nil
promouser(userid,GROUPID,RANKID)
end
end
end
end