Official List of Deprecated Web Endpoints

Hey Developers,

From time to time, the web team cleans up the website by shutting down old web API endpoints. This thread will serve as a list of deprecated endpoints in order to keep you informed of changes to the platform in case we deprecate an endpoint that your game might rely on. Additionally, when possible this thread will provide information about newer API endpoints.

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Status: To Be Removed

List of Removed Endpoints

Status: Have Been Removed

Thanks,
The Roblox Team

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This thread will be open for comments. Please be mindful when responding and keep discussions on-topic

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Does this mean deprecate as in it will be removed at some point, or deprecate as in we shouldn’t be using it and they won’t be maintained?

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@EchoReaper would love to watch this post. I saw him posting a couple of times about endpoints on Development Support before.

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There’s no immediate deprecations as a resultant or cause of this thread right?

They didn’t list any, so I would presume no.

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You should always assume that deprecated endpoints can randomly disappear overnight.

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RIP, literally every script I’ve ever written uses :connect()

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:connect() > :Connect(), it looks so much nicer. Its pretty safe too, I reallllllly doubt they’d remove it. It’d be like removing Workspace so we could only use workspace, as workspace is the one thats offically supported.

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I’ve switched to using :Connect as it just makes more sense to use the same case-format everywhere. Like DeepBlue said, I doubt they’ll remove it so I guess you can do what you want

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Can I ask… how is :connect a web endpoint?

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Can we maybe get a list of endpoints, deprecated or not, so that we know what’s on the table?

It was worth a shot.

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https://accountsettings.roblox.com/docs
https://auth.roblox.com/docs
https://avatar.roblox.com/docs
https://billing.roblox.com/docs
https://chat.roblox.com/docs
https://develop.roblox.com/docs
https://groups.roblox.com/docs
https://notifications.roblox.com/docs
https://inventory.roblox.com/docs
https://games.roblox.com/docs/
New as of Jan 2018: https://points.roblox.com/docs

http://api.roblox.com/docs

Some general notes:
If you can find an endpoint which suits your needs on one of the sites above, use that instead of a similar endpoint on www. Also, if you can find an endpoint on one of sites mentioned in the first paragraph, use that over api.roblox.com.
In addition, www obviously has endpoints but we don’t publish documentation for them.

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Cool - found about half of those, but new discoveries are :ok_hand:

https://games.roblox.com/docs/ too

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Recently Removed
roblox.com/Asset/BodyColors.ashx
Usage: Supplied an XML document representing an in-game BodyColors object.
Alternative: https://avatar.roblox.com/docs/#!/Avatar/get_v1_users_userId_avatar

Removing Soon
roblox.com/Asset/AvatarAccoutrements.ashx
Usage: Gave a list of a user’s worn assetIds and their BodyColors.ashx URL.
Alternative: https://avatar.roblox.com/docs/#!/Avatar/get_v1_users_userId_avatar

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As a general recommendation, try to use endpoints from the API sites @BAUER102 listed above. They are more stable than endpoints on www.roblox.com. They also have better documentation, which is a bonus :slight_smile:

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Talking about web endpoints, could it be possible to add something to grab all the transactions of a group?

It could be quite helpful to those trying to map old data before adding a system to do so (Analytics data) or with those who haven’t done that yet.

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I’ve also found:
https://friends.roblox.com/docs

I’m not entirely sure if that one is intended for devs, considering it has something to do with matching by phone numbers…

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It would be great if there was a way we could use a search API for people, groups, and etc.

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Hey Developers,

We are planning to remove this API endpoint in a few weeks: This endpoint has been disabled: https://www.roblox.com/Game/LuaWebService/HandleSocialRequest.ashx

It is not possible to call this endpoint using HttpService, but we are posting this notice because some developers may be hitting this endpoint using their own web servers. If you are using it, please switch to one of the newer endpoints recommended below:

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