AssedId type checking

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#1

Is there any way for me to get information on which an asset is a gamepass or a different asset ID, just from its asset ID? MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo() does not work because you have to specify the product type.

#2

I looked on the developer hub page for this function, and in the ā€œParametersā€ section they do ask for a infoType Enum. However, in the example they show below, no such data is included.

This is the example on the developer hub page:

local Asset = game:GetService("MarketplaceService"):GetProductInfo(125378389)
print(Asset.Name .. " :: " .. Asset.Description)

Iā€™ve also seen others use this function without the infoType included.

Have you already tried leaving it out completely, and seeing if it works without?

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#3

Providing no info type works, but the asset returned isnā€™t a gamepass, so for example requesting the pass ā€˜12345678ā€™ would return a place instead of a game pass object.

#4

If you want to return just gamepasses, then you could provide also the InfoType ā€œEnum.InfoType.GamePassā€.

local Asset = game:GetService("MarketplaceService"):GetProductInfo(125378389, Enum.InfoType.GamePass)
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#5

If you need to dynamically get the ProductType from a AssetID - you will need to call a Roblox API web endpoint - which would require a external server.

The specific endpoint you will need to use is:

http://api.roblox.com/Marketplace/ProductInfo?assetId=

The specific thing to pay attention to is the AssetTypeId in the response - that will vary between specific asset types.

In Roblox alone there is no API unfortunately that can allow you to see this normally as far as I am aware.

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#6

Though you technically canā€™t seem to be able to do this directly as @Monofur said, you can use a proxy server to make the request, and return the result back to your roblox script.

Here is a great way to make a free proxy using Google Apps Script:

Using Google Apps As A api.roblox.com And www.roblox.com Proxy

What I wonder though, is why roblox would require input for assetType for their Lua function, especially when it doesnā€™t seem to be needed, but not for their public API.

#7

But since we are working with AssetIds, there is only one asset per ID, right? If 12345678 is a place, then you couldnā€™t get a gamepass from it.

You can find out what the asset type is, but you shouldnā€™t be able to declare it since there is only one asset per AssetId.

#8

I thought Iā€™d need to do this, I just didnā€™t know which endpoint to use. Thanks