Finding all children of "game"

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#1

This may be a dumb question, but I need to find all the children of “game”.

For example, referencing game.Workspace leads you to workspace, but what if I just want to search that “game” part. Is that possible?

#2

it is possible but your code will error the second it touches services with priorities above the developers set priority level

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#3

I need to do this because I don’t want 25 lines of code over and over again to find the children of every single service

#4

What exactly are you trying to achieve by getting the children/descendants of services?

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#5

Mostly because I tried out a plugin and now everything is infested with crazy things, but I had the idea of making a script to do it and possibly use it for other purposes (like digging deep into folders and models to delete scripts)

#6

Why cant you just revert the games version then?

#7

I can do that, but I just was curious if I could do it via a script. I can close the topic if you wish

#8

You could achieve this by doing a for loop of game:GetDescendants() and wrapping a pcall function so that even if it errors itll continue. Then you’d just have specific naming to search for or properties/classname

#9

Alright, I’ll try that. I’ll mark it as solved (so the mods dont moderate me, i want that clean history!)

Thanks for your help!

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#10

You can actually use game:GetChildren() without an error, you just have to use pcall if you’re trying to index anything.

local services = {}

for i,v in ipairs(game:GetChildren()) do
	local success, result = pcall(function()
		return v.Name
	end)
	if success then
		table.insert(services, result)
	end
end

print(services)

  ▼  {
                    [1] = "Workspace",
                    [2] = "Run Service",
                    [3] = "GuiService",
                    [4] = "Stats",
                    [5] = "SoundService",
                    [6] = "LogService",
                    [7] = "ContentProvider",
                    [8] = "Instance",
                    [9] = "Instance",
                    [10] = "Chat",
                    [11] = "MarketplaceService",
                    [12] = "Players",
                    [13] = "PointsService",
                    [14] = "AdService",
                    [15] = "NotificationService",
                    [16] = "ReplicatedFirst",
                    [17] = "HttpRbxApiService",
                    [18] = "TweenService",
                    [19] = "MaterialService",
                    [20] = "TextService",
                    [21] = "PermissionsService",
                    [22] = "StarterPlayer",
                    [23] = "StarterPack",
                    [24] = "StarterGui",
                    [25] = "LocalizationService",
                    [26] = "PolicyService",
                    [27] = "Teleport Service",
                    [28] = "JointsService",
                    [29] = "CollectionService",
                    [30] = "PhysicsService",
                    [31] = "BadgeService",
                    [32] = "Geometry",
                    [33] = "FriendService",
                    [34] = "InsertService",
                    [35] = "GamePassService",
                    [36] = "Debris",
                    [37] = "Instance",
                    [38] = "CookiesService",
                    [39] = "GamepadService",
                    [40] = "Instance",
                    [41] = "Instance",
                    [42] = "Instance",
                    [43] = "VRService",
                    [44] = "ContextActionService",
                    [45] = "Instance",
                    [46] = "AssetService",
                    [47] = "TouchInputService",
                    [48] = "Instance",
                    [49] = "AnalyticsService",
                    [50] = "Script Context",
                    [51] = "HttpService",
                    [52] = "FilteredSelection",
                    [53] = "Selection",
                    [54] = "FilteredSelection",
                    [55] = "ServerScriptService",
                    [56] = "ServerStorage",
                    [57] = "ReplicatedStorage",
                    [58] = "ChangeHistoryService",
                    [59] = "Instance",
                    [60] = "ProcessInstancePhysicsService",
                    [61] = "NetworkClient",
                    [62] = "LanguageService",
                    [63] = "HapticService",
                    [64] = "MeshContentProvider",
                    [65] = "Lighting",
                    [66] = "SolidModelContentProvider",
                    [67] = "HSRDataContentProvider",
                    [68] = "Instance",
                    [69] = "FilteredSelection",
                    [70] = "Visit",
                    [71] = "Instance",
                    [72] = "Instance",
                    [73] = "Teams",
                    [74] = "TestService",
                    [75] = "SocialService",
                    [76] = "ProximityPromptService",
                    [77] = "MemStorageService",
                    [78] = "GroupService",
                    [79] = "Instance",
                    [80] = "VirtualInputManager",
                    [81] = "Instance",
                    [82] = "UserService"
                 }  -  Client - LocalScript:12
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#11

Yeah, was assuming OP wanted to get descendants based off the original query.

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