How to find game genre via HttpService and random game generator

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#1

I am nearly done with my random game generator, but I want the genre to be displayed to potentially filter out games by horror, building, etc… How would I go by doing this?
And if possible, how would I be able to find the creator’s profile and username via a Roblox Place ID?

Script 
local TeleportService = game:GetService("TeleportService")
local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")

local GetInfo = function(id)
	local thumbnail = "https://assetgame.roblox.com/Game/Tools/ThumbnailAsset.ashx?aid=".. id .."&fmt=png&wd=420&ht=420"
	local Info = MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo(id,Enum.InfoType.Asset)

	if Info.AssetTypeId == 9 then
		return {
			Name = Info.Name,
			Created = Info.Created,
			Updated = Info.Updated,
			Description = Info.Description,
			Thumbnail = thumbnail,
		}
	end
end

local Check = function(id)
	local Info = MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo(id,Enum.InfoType.Asset)
	if string.find(Info.Name, "Place") then
		return false
	end
	return true
end

local IgnoredPlaceIds = {}
local function GRP()
	-- Generates a Random Place
	local RandomPlaceGenerator = Random.new():NextInteger(100000, 14038963653)

	-- Checks for the word Place Before anything
	if not Check(RandomPlaceGenerator) then
		GRP()
		return
	end

	-- Checks if the player has recieved this place before OR contains Place in it
	if table.find(IgnoredPlaceIds, RandomPlaceGenerator) then
		GRP()
		return
	end

	-- This Line Make its so you cant get the same place your recieved before.
	table.insert(IgnoredPlaceIds, RandomPlaceGenerator)

	local success, errormessage = pcall(function()
		-- Recieves Information Needed
		local RecieveInformation = GetInfo(RandomPlaceGenerator)

		-- Fills out returned information
		local SurfaceGUI = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.SurfaceGui
		SurfaceGUI.Thumbnail.Image = RecieveInformation.Thumbnail
		SurfaceGUI.PlaceName.Text = RecieveInformation.Name
		SurfaceGUI.CreationDate.Text = RecieveInformation.Created
		SurfaceGUI.LastUpdated.Text = RecieveInformation.Updated
		SurfaceGUI.Visits.Text = RecieveInformation.Description
		SurfaceGUI.GameID.Text = RandomPlaceGenerator
		SurfaceGUI.Genre.Text = RecieveInformation.Genre
	end)
	if not success then
		warn(errormessage)
		GRP()
		return
	else
		script.Parent.MouseClick:Connect(function(player)
			TeleportService:Teleport(RandomPlaceGenerator, player)
		end)
	end


end

while task.wait(10) do
	GRP()
	end
#2

Getting the creator’s profile and username can be used via Info.Creator when you use MarketPlaceService:GetProductInfo().

However, I don’t think it’s possible to get the genre of a game using the placeId.

#3

I’ve seen some other random game generators find the genre, did they use a proxy and how so?

#4

I’m not really sure how to use proxies but you would use one of them for this.

#5

Were you able to find out how to use the genres?

#6

I found some useful api that you could use, but I don’t know how to incorporate proxies into them.

'https://api.roblox.com/universes/get-universe-containing-place?placeid='.. placeId --Get universe id
'https://games.roblox.com/v1/games?universeIds='.. universeId --Get info about game by universe id, including genre
#7

Not sure how I would be able to use these… I will try to use it in my script to find game genre.

#8

Finally I figured it out!

Try this:

local function genreByPlaceId(placeId)
	local universeDataEncoded = httpService:GetAsync("https://apis.roproxy.com/universes/v1/places/".. placeId.. "/universe")
	
	if universeDataEncoded then
		local universeDataDecoded = httpService:JSONDecode(universeDataEncoded)
		
		local universeId = universeDataDecoded.universeId
		
		if universeId then
			local gameDataEncoded = httpService:GetAsync('https://games.roproxy.com/v1/games?universeIds='.. universeId)
			
			if gameDataEncoded then
				local gameDataDecoded = httpService:JSONDecode(gameDataEncoded)

				local genre = gameDataDecoded.data[1].genre
				
				return genre
			end
		end
	end
end

For example, to get Jailbreak’s genre by it’s placeId:

genreByPlaceId(606849621) --> Town and City
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#9

Didn’t work for some reason. I cant use genreByPlaceID.
I did this: local Genre = genreByPlaceId(RandomPlaceGenerator)

#10

Were there any errors? It works for me. (Also sorry for incredibly late reply I thought this was marked as the solution so I didn’t check the post)