How can i get the amount of players within a place of a universe?

[machiattio (mach)]

I can make a messaging service function where all servers send info about their playercounts and so on but i wanna know if theres another way such as an api?

[Lkkyuy (LookHappily)]

yes. You can use MessagingService
MessagingService | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub
but The other way is to use Roblox Cloud Store like DataStore or MemoryStore hacky
Also Send requests to games.roblox.com to get Playing Data (not match your situation)

[NyrionDev (Nyrion)]

It’s your lucky day:

How to find concurrent players of a SPECIFIC PLACE (NOT UNIVERSE, NOT GAME)

Assuming the code runs from within the game itself, you can use MessagingService: local MessagingService = game:GetService("MessagingService") local function getServerPlayers(): number return #game.Players:GetPlayers() end --Only bind this once MessagingService:SubscribeAsync("GetPlayers", function(message) local data = message.Data if data[2] == game.JobId then return end if data[1] ~= game.PlaceId then return end MessagingService:PublishAsync("ReceivePlayers", getServerPlayers(), data…

If I rewrote that code today I would also add the place id to the messaging service topic instead of passing it in as a parameter, so that I don’t need to contact all servers but only the servers I’m interested in.

[machiattio (mach)]

well uhh, i already coded my messaging service by the time this was sent ;/ but thanks