Getting a players new username from old one

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#21

I never mentioned AI autocorrect.

“when I type in their old username since that’s what they were last identified as, the game will immediately correct it to their newest username.”

#22

I know I don’t say that, @HexticDev that said that

#23

That’s really interesting where at?

#24

Post 12, that’s where

#25

Definitely helen keller, can you read?

#26

What?

#27

I’m not too familiar with this topic, although most of these replies aren’t very helpful. I recommend looking for a web API that allows you to get all of a player’s past usernames. I know Rolimons allows you to look at past usernames, so this should be possible. You would then need to come up with a way to search through players with that past username. Maybe log each UserID that joins your game and then create a system to loop through each logged UserID? Chances are this would be too slow although I hope this gives you a good start.

Edit: You could also log every Username that joins with their corresponding UserID and then when an admin enters a username you would have their UserID on file and then you could update it.

#28

You can do this with the Roblox Users Web API. Specifically, the v1/usernames/users endpoint.

Here’s a sample function that can be used to fetch a user’s current username from the old username:

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")

function getNewUsername(oldUsername)

    local url = "https://users.roproxy.com/v1/usernames/users" -- Proxy is required since httpservice blocks requests to their api from httpservice
    local body = HttpService:JSONEncode({
        usernames = {
            oldUsername
        },
        excludeBannedUsers = false
    })

    local success, result = pcall(function()
        return HttpService:RequestAsync({ -- Sending a post request to the endpoint
            Url = url,
            Method = "POST",
            Headers = {
                ["Content-Type"] = "application/json",
            },
            Body = body
        })
    end)

    if success then
       local body = HttpService:JSONDecode(result["Body"])
       return body["data"][1].name -- Returns the current username of the provided username
    else
      warn(result)
    end
end

print(getNewUsername("RealWindGaming")) -- RealWindGaming is my old username

-- Prints: ValiantWind
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#29

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