Hello there!
I am developer of Okwo - Discord bot that connects with Roblox. Few days ago we brought item notifications, but it seems like Roblox really has problems with their API.
What I use is SortType 3 (Latest updated) and CreatorId 1 (ROBLOX). Let’s focus on few first assets in the result.
- Updated 20 minutes ago, but lets focus on four first digits from UpdatedDate - 1529. Okay…
- Updated 14 hours ago… Much earlier… First four digits - 1531, but… what? If it has been created earlier and the Date object bases on JavaScript tick, then why is it bigger? Hm. Maybe even more old asset have bigger number…
- 16 hours ago and 1530… It’s smaller than 2nd and bigger than 1st, but older than both…
Actually. I’ve figured it out. The latest updated asset gets proper UpdatedDate after aprox 15-30 minutes after update (notice that there is string with proper number before that). It really messes up everything. Realize that now we can’t even retreive when Roblox has created asset, because it’s placed somewhere really really deep (similiar issue happens).
If even Roblox is aware of that, there’s one question remaining… Why? There are still bots that will always fetch that properly (they can even just hook theirselves on twitter and wait for other’s posts). There always will… Just like Roblox+ Notifier. Why to mess it up like that? It isn’t really sensitive information that has to be hidden. It will always be findable…
It happens everytime at https://search.roblox.com/catalog/json?SortType=3&CreatorID=1 , so there’s big appeal. Please change that…
Regards!