Checking if a player is a game developer

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#1

Hiya!

I’m looking for a way to tell if a user is a game developer of a certain game, like if there are multiple developers allowed edit access to a single game. My problem is I can’t find out how to do so. I’ve tried looking over the Developer hub, these DevForums, and online.

I’m making my own leaderboard, and I want to add this icon infront of any user who’s a developer of my games.

developer@3x

Like if there were multiple developers, each one would have that icon infront of the player name.

image

EDIT:

I want no user to have to edit the original script. I want it to simply be added to a game, and let the script figure out who is who.

These are things I tried looking up.

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/enum/MembershipType

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/enum/PrivilegeType

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/enum/CreatorType

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/Player/MembershipType

None of these seem to include Developer status.

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#2

you can just do something like this:

local devs = {} --put your developer's UserIds' here

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    if table.find(player.UserId, devs) then
        --icon code here
    end
end)
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#3

Well, what I’m making will also be opensource, so I want it to flexible for any user using it as well.

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#4

yes, and they can change what is inside of the table.

#5 
Local Developers = {"username1","username2"}

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
 if table.find(player.Name,Developers) then
  --Do stuff
 end
end)

(@sniper74 's method will work too and maybe even better)

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#6

But what if they don’t know how to script, and not have resources to figure out how?

#7

well, your method works too, but I would recommend using UserId’s instead of names as if they ever change their name, the name is available to someone else and they would get the icon.

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#8

they don’t need to know how to script at all for this, its as simple as going to a devs account and switching the UserIds

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#9

Yeah, I do recommend using if table.find() then though instead of looping.

#10

yes, but I was just going off the top of my head lol. I’ll edit it to table.find()

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#11

Another relatively simple solution if all your Developers are in a group, is fetch the specific group rank. And has that as the condition, it should be pretty easy to give the developers that icon.

And in case you aren’t sure how to do that, here’s an example :

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)  
   if player:GetRankInGroup(YourGroupId) == DeveloperRank then
      -- Give Icon
   end
end
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#12

If you want to check if they are on devforum you can use endpoints from roblox to devforum using this link:

https://devforum.roblox.com/u/username.json

Basically allows you to retrieve everyones devforum data. If you can find their username in devforum they are likely a developer.

But if you just want to find a certain person then you can do what everyone else did above.

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#13

Just wanted to point out that the username is not available for another person if you changed your username.

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#14

Just try to make it as easy as possible, you could have a seperate ModuleScript with a configuration where they could put in the developers of the game.

--[[
	Some general information on how to add another user
	could go here
--]]

return {
	{UserId = 1};
	{UserId = 2};
}
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#15

I’m trying to figure out if a user is a developer of a certain game. Owners show up with the same image as those who develop the game, and that’s what I want to replicate across my leaderboard. I want people to see that the user develops the game. It is a matter of the Roblox sessions, and not manual scripting.

I want to be able to do this without manual scripting, and automatically add it without touching the scripts at all.

#16

Trying to do something like this.

#17

I don’t think this can be done totally without scripting, I checked through the Roblox API Endpoint Docs a few times, but couldn’t find something like that. Your best option would be to probably go with something like others have suggested – By Comparing their Group Rank. Anyways, you don’t need advance knowledge for that, just need to insert that Rank to a table.

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#18

I did some API Endpoint Doc searching as well. I don’t think its possible for the game to recognize the userdata unless it has the token for those users themselves. I think you guys might be right about that, but I still want to have feedback on this topic, because I am eager for a solution.

#19

Maybe the Roblox website has its own api, without the API document sites.

#20

To make it as simple as possible, I can only think of this way:

local groupId = 000000
local developerRoles = { "Programmer", "Builder" }

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)  
   if developerRoles[player:GetRoleInGroup(groupId)] then
      -- Do what you want to do.
   end
end
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