Getting a players Name from their UserId without datastores?

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#1

When players first make a save on my game, I save their player name in a normal datastore along with all of their other data. I have multiple leaderboards in my game which need to refresh, however there are 100 places in each leaderboard, and the data is saved under the players user id in the ordered data store. To get the username of the player when refreshing, I need to send a request to the datastore to look for this players user id and get their name, however this is very costly with the GetAsync() limit. Is there any way I can get a players Username from their UserId without using GetAsync()?

I have seen that there is GetNameFromUserIdAsync(), but I’m not sure what the limit per minute is for this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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#3

Is there a limit to that, or could I potentially call it 100 times per second?

#4

I believe it counts as a part of the HttpService’s requests limit.
Can’t you store the players name along their data in the datastore? That way you could just grab it on the go.

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#5

Ah okay thank you!! I’ll try and add their usernames into the datastore.

#6

I don’t believe internal web calls count towards the HttpService request limit at 500 calls per second. Haven’t really tested that out yet.

@TheM0rt0nator What could you possibly need to use this 100 times per second for? Or are you asking that hypothetically?