Global Players Count

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#1

Hello, I’m PLX, currently making a Roblox game.

I’m looking for a global players counter, explanation: I wan’t want this to happen on the game place, it displays how many players are playing in that place

So could someone tell me how to achieve this?

#2

You’ll want to use the Games Web API in order to get the number of players playing in a game.

You’ll just need to use HttpService to send a request, and then the api endpoint used will return the number of players currently playing the game. (Note: HttpService doesn’t allow direct Http requests to the Roblox Web API, so you’ll need to use a proxy :slight_smile: )

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")

local function getConcurrentPlayers(universeId: number)
   local data

   local success, errorMessage = pcall(function() -- Always use a pcall when sending http requests
   data = HttpService:GetAsync(`https://games.roblox.com/v1/games?universeIds={universeId}`) -- Remember to replace the endpoint with a proxy equivalent, or else it wont work
end)

   if success then
      local gameData = HttpService:JSONDecode(data)

      local playerCount: number = gameData[0].playing

      return playerCount
else 
  warn(`Error when attempting to get Game Data: {errorMessage}`)
end

In the snippet above, we send a Http GET Request to this endpoint:

https://games.roblox.com/v1/games

to get the game data of the provided universeId query.

When a valid Universe ID is provided, the endpoint will return this json response:

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{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 0,
      "rootPlaceId": 0,
      "name": "string",
      "description": "string",
      "sourceName": "string",
      "sourceDescription": "string",
      "creator": {
        "id": 0,
        "name": "string",
        "type": "string",
        "isRNVAccount": true,
        "hasVerifiedBadge": true
      },
      "price": 0,
      "allowedGearGenres": [
        "string"
      ],
      "allowedGearCategories": [
        "string"
      ],
      "isGenreEnforced": true,
      "copyingAllowed": true,
      "playing": 0,
      "visits": 0,
      "maxPlayers": 0,
      "created": "2024-04-30T16:30:49.188Z",
      "updated": "2024-04-30T16:30:49.188Z",
      "studioAccessToApisAllowed": true,
      "createVipServersAllowed": true,
      "universeAvatarType": 1,
      "genre": "string",
      "isAllGenre": true,
      "isFavoritedByUser": true,
      "favoritedCount": 0
    }
  ]
}

We’d then get the playing property inside the json response, in which the value of the playing property is the amount of players currently playing the game.

I hope this helped :slight_smile:

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#3

hello! Thank you for helping me, does it work on textlabels?

#4 
if u use the prev example from @valientWind u can convert the return playercount what is a number to a string with tostring()
ATextLabel.Text=tostring(playerCount)
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