How do I get how many player's are online in a game by using a script?
So, I know for a fact you can get some of the information from a place by simply using :GetProductInfo. You can get the place's name, description, even who created it. But, there's nothing on how to get the number of players online in a place. At least nothing that I could find. Does anyone know how to do this? If so it would be much appreciated
Also, how to get a place's image & thumbnail. (The Web API page doesn't have the proper thumbnail or Icon I need)
Note: (I know you can use :GetPlayers, but that would be for that server only, not the place's global players itself)
3 answers
You can do this without datastores by using this api
Whilst that is an internal API and therefore you'll have to use a proxy to access it ingame, you can use that to loop through each page and get the amount of players.
Here's an example.
01 | -- api to get information from |
02 | local api = "myapi?placeid=0" |
03 | -- index of what page we're on - increments by 10 each time |
04 | local index = 0 |
05 | -- amount of players we've counted |
06 | local result = 0 |
07 | -- the last request we got |
08 | local lastRequest |
09 |
10 | repeat |
11 | -- get the page with the index we have |
12 | local request = game.HttpService:GetAsync(api .."&startIndex=".. index) |
13 | -- decode it from json into a lua dictionary |
14 | request = game.HttpService:JsonDecode(request) |
15 | -- loop through the collection from the request (the servers) |
I can't say I know what it means, but try this http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=API:Class/Players/GetPlayers :P
I'm not sure of any other solutions, but you can probably create a datastore and write the total amount of players in a server and add that up with the other input from all the other servers. Then just increment or decrement whenever a player leave/joins a server or when the server shuts down. Though this is just an idea, i've never done this before.