How do I only get the ID from assets?

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#1

Hello, i am trying to only get the ID from an asset. What I mean by this is that instead of getting *http://www.roblox.com/asset/?id=***[ID]**, I only want the [ID]. Now I have tried to use string.gsub() to replace it but, that didn’t seem to work because i only got it to work with singular symbols or just one word, I have no idea why.

Also, the initial idea was to get the players hats and then parent them to a new humanoid. Now that didn’t seem to work either because for some reason no matter what i did it wouldn’t set itself to the humanoid although i would use :AddAccessory. It would be great if anyone has a method that works for this :slight_smile:

Thanks for reading, that is all.

#2

You could do:

print(string.sub(YOURMESHTARGET.MeshId,14)) -- It will print everything starting from the 14th character which is the 1st number of the id
#3

My original idea was to get the player’s Hat MeshId, But in this case the numbers are totally randomized depending on when the asset was uploaded.

#4

You can use string.match and patterns to do this.

local url = 'rbxassetid://123456789'
local id = string.match(url, '%d+')

print(id) --> 123456789
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#5

Yep! I actually looked at the this not long ago, but I didn’t read into what it did. So I figured match meant it could only find anything that matches the input. :+1:

#6

If you want the player’s hat MeshId then you could do:

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
plr.CharacterAppearanceLoaded:Connect(function(char)

	local humanoid = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	
	-- save hats for later
	local accessories = {}
	for _, accessory in pairs(humanoid:GetAccessories()) do 
		table.insert(accessories, accessory:Clone())
		
		-- get hat ID
		local handle = accessory:FindFirstChild("Handle")
		print(string.sub(handle.MeshId, 33))
	end
end)
end)
#7

image flkfv’s idea seems to be a lot better than list guessing the sub number. Since it focuses on removing everything but the numbers. Or else it just prints whatever has 33? Is my guess.

#8

No it types out the player’s hat ID, no guessing “33” means the 1st number