How to get DisplayName from UserId?

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#1

I am trying to make it so I can get the player’s displayname from their UserId. I have found out that I can use Players:getUserInfosFromUserIdsAsync() to get the DisplayName but when I try to do that it comes up with an error from the pcall.

 GetUserInfosByUserIdsAsync is not a valid member of Players "Players"  -  Client

I can’t figure out how I am suppose to do this. Can’t you use this function anymore?

Here is my code:

local userInfo
local success, errormessage = pcall(function()
	userInfo = game.Players:GetUserInfosByUserIdsAsync({userID})
end

if success then
	print(userInfo.Username)
	print(userInfo.DisplayName)
	playerInfoFrame:WaitForChild("DisplayName").Text = userInfo.DisplayName
	playerInfoFrame:WaitForChild("Username").Text = userInfo.Username	
else
	warn(errormessage)
end

If you can’t use GetUserInfosByUserIdsAsync() anymore, is there an alternative?

Any help is appreciated.

#2

The problem here is that you’ve said game.Players, when looking at the devhub of this function it is under the service “UserService” so try

local UserService = game:GetService("UserService")

UserService:GetUserInfosByUserIdsAsync({userID})

Edit: Just realised there is a couple more errors

You need to define newPlayerPage and the userId

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local playerInfoFrame = player.PlayerGui.newPlayerPage:WaitForChild("playerInfo")
local UserService = game:GetService("UserService")

local success, result = pcall(function()
	return UserService:GetUserInfosByUserIdsAsync({80000})
end)

if success then
	for _, userInfo in ipairs(result) do
		print("Id:", userInfo.Id)
		print("Username:", userInfo.Username)
		print("DisplayName:", userInfo.DisplayName)
	    playerInfoFrame:WaitForChild("DisplayName").Text = userInfo.DisplayName
	    playerInfoFrame:WaitForChild("Username").Text = userInfo.Username	
	end
else
	warn(result)
end
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#3 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players:GetPlayerByUserId(UserId)
local DisplayName = Player and Player.DisplayName or ""

put the UserId where UserId is obviously

this shouldn’t work if the player isn’t inside the game though

#4

I have experienced and fixed this issue a while back ago when I was making a resource.
Use this:

local ID = --UserID
local UserService = game:GetService("UserService")
local success, Info
success, Info = pcall(function()
	return UserService:GetUserInfosByUserIdsAsync({ID})
end)
local DisplayName = Info[1].DisplayName
--aditional
print(CreatorDisplayName) --DisplayName, if any

This should work for players that are not in the game. If not, you will need to use a proxy. I haven’t tested it outside.

#5

Then just check if the player is descendant of Players. If so then the player is inside the game.

#6

oh sorry my code works fine, if there are no player in the game with that id then DisplayName is “”

just saying you can’t get a player from outside the game

#7

Oh oops I read that wrong sorry about that!

#8

Ah, okay. It’s just weird because on the developer website it said Players in the code and thought it was in game.Players. It said Function of UserService, but I didn’t see that.
Thanks.

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