DeepLink Test Failing

[blowup999]

Wanted to test using the DeepLinking feature and see how it all worked. Seems like something that could be helpful for me later on. I wrote some code to auto-generate the AppFlyer link, but it doesn’t seem to be working.

Developer Deeplinking [Beta]

Hey y’all! We are excited to announce Developer Deeplinking, a new beta rolling out to all developers today! This feature will enable developers to pass a string (LaunchData) in links/URLs they create for their experiences. This will be appended to the general join link, and will be available to the developer when the user enters their experience through the join link. You can then use that data to customize the user experience in whichever way you like. To build these links you need your roo…

local HS = game:GetService("HttpService")

local base1 = "https://www.roblox.com/games/start?placeId=" .. game.PlaceId .. "&launchData=%s"
local base2 = "roblox://placeId=" .. game.PlaceId .. "&launchData=%s"
local appFlyer = "ro.blox.com/Ebh5?af_web_dp=%s&af_dp=%s"

local function getDeepLink(data)
	local str = HS:JSONEncode(data)
	local encoded1 = HS:UrlEncode(string.format(base1, str))
	local encoded2 = HS:UrlEncode(string.format(base2, str))
	return string.format(appFlyer, encoded1, encoded2)
end

print(getDeepLink({TestData = {InvitedBy = "blowup999"}}))

It gave me the following link:
ro.blox.com/Ebh5?af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.roblox.com%2Fgames%2Fstart%3FplaceId%3D13326902507%26launchData%3D{“TestData”%3A{“InvitedBy”%3A"blowup999"}}&af_dp=roblox%3A%2F%2FplaceId%3D13326902507%26launchData%3D{“TestData”%3A{“InvitedBy”%3A"blowup999"}}
This however seems to be failing. Instead of sending me to the game or even the game’s page, it just sends me to www.roblox.com, and I’m not sure why, as it seems to follow the documentation in the original post as well as in Dev Hub. I know there’s a limit of 200 bytes decoded information, but I’m pretty sure it’s under that limit.

[blowup999]

For whatever reason, Dev Hub translates the { } back in from the URL encoding: Picture of the actual encoding which doesn’t appear to have any special characters:

[blowup999]

After trying it on mobile, it seems to work fine, but for whatever reason it doesn’t work on pc.

Mobile auto-joins game, PC sends me to roblox.com instead of even showing the game’s page.

[GammerAtomYT (LplusRatioPlusMad)]

It’s most likely over 200 bytes, as on my computer which has 8 gigabytes of ram, it takes at least 15 seconds to load up the devforum.

Or this can be a bug, I wouldn’t use features that are in beta until they release.

[2jammers (james)]

I have noticed that appsflyer does not work on pc. You’ll have to create a mobile and desktop link as an alternative.