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How to get a username from a userId?

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MasterDaniel 320 Moderation Voter
8 years ago

I'm making a global leaderboard and so far everything works except for displaying the players username, as it just shows the userId of the player (which is the key in my ordered data store).

name = game:GetService("HttpService"):GetAsync("http://api.roblox.com/Users/"..string.sub(id,6),false)

I know that this cannot work as it is accessing a subdomain of ROBLOX but I have no idea how else to do it. I've tried using a proxy I saw mentioned on a few other threads but I get a CURL error: Couldn't resolve host name.

Can anyone help?

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Answered by
M39a9am3R 3210 Moderation Voter Community Moderator
8 years ago

Why not just use GetNameFromUserIdAsync() of players? It will get the name of any user registered to the site. Except for the following Ids, I guess Roblox permanently deleted the accounts and it will return an error.

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If the wiki had been a little more helpful I would have found/used this. Thanks :p MasterDaniel 320 — 8y
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