Announcing Datastore APIs for Open Cloud

No, gamepersistence is still internal. All Open Cloud APIs live under apis.roblox.com and are documented on the DevHub.

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Now we wait for the group rank API and shout API to have a cloud endpoint too!

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We do not have any plans to restrict access at the datastore scopes level. We generally discourage the use of datastore scopes.

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Is there any plan to make the request limit change by player count or other metrics? 600 requests per minute isnā€™t a lot for large games.

Really excited to use it , you make stuff like this so easy to use!

Will this change also allow the game server to pass information to the website? For example, Iā€™m driving in my game and suddenly crash - I want an alert to pop up on my website saying that my vehicle has crashed.

I love this new feature!

Iā€™d love to see some kind of ability to enumerate recently added keys to a datastore based on the time they were added so I could grab the last x keys after a certain timestamp as currently thereā€™s no way to do this. ā€“ Maybe some kind of structured query language for datastore?

Keep up the awesome work, I can see this opening so many doors for developers; especially web developers!

This has been the thing I have been waiting for Open Cloud. Properly following the data deletion requests for GDPR has been difficult for a while since I needed to open Roblox Studio, and the helper script I used broke a while ago. Now if I wanted to, I can create either a helper tool or a helper website where I just give it the ids to clear, it confirms the accounts are gone, and then it uses Open Cloud to delete the data.

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I canā€™t wait to start using this in my current work!

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Iā€™m glad you brought this up at a right time.

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What I would love to see next and I know lots of other people would like this is to have things like group ranking, posting on group shout and stuff like that. I know personally as a developer who creates things like Discord bots and websites that it is not very nice at all to use the current endpoints (Groups Api) and some of us are even having issues due to the cookie getting invalid when a log in is not in the same region of the IP that created the cookie.

I think that this open cloud or something else would be a great chance to help developers who want to use the endpoints in a more easy and more reliable way. There are many who wants this because the way that we currently have to work with the endpoints to make things like ranking bots is just really bad to be quite honest and not at all good.

I cannot wait to use this new data store API for my projects because it seems very useful

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Same, And im really excited. And canā€™t wait to test it out for myself too!

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This entirely removes lots of peopleā€™s current uses for external platforms like firebase, which greatly simplifies things.

Has information regarding rate limits been released yet?
[Edit] My bad I did not read the linked pages

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I think this is what you are looking for about rate limits. It is on a post which is linked to this announcement.

Above is the API reference where it states how to use the API and a bunch of other info (this is where I got the above rate limits).

I am so excited to use this new API. This is honestly getting better and better! Thank you so much to the Roblox staff who worked on this. Canā€™t wait to see what more there is going to be in the future!

Really looking forward to using this - great update!

Amazing! Iā€™m also super excited for open cloud oauth!

Wow. This is really awesome. Thanks for this!

I have waited for this and itā€™s here! I canā€™t wait to test out all of the APIs. This will be very useful and is a great update.

Would it be possible reverse this to allow the creation of tutorials on the web, and then automatically transfer to Roblox?