How to get game upvote count

[AtreyuRoblox]

So I’ve been looking for an answer for like 2 hours at this point, and everything I’ve found yet is etheir really complex or outdated, Is there any somewhat simple way to get the upvotes of a game?

[ahandohs5]

There are a lot of topics on the developer forum about this, try these posts for example:

How to make a like counter?

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService") local UniverseId = 0 local response = HttpService:RequestAsync({ Url = "https://games.roproxy.com/v1/games/votes?universeIds="..UniverseId, Method = "GET" }) if response.Success then local votes = HttpService:JSONDecode(response.Body) print("upVotes:", votes.data[1].upVotes) end

Is there an API for likes/favorites?

Yes, here’s the page: https://games.roblox.com/docs#!/v1 And a example: https://games.roblox.com/v1/games/votes?universeIds=640204840 https://games.roblox.com/v1/games/640204840/favorites/count Simply replace 640204840 with your universe id. You will have to use a proxy instead of directly going through HttpService, though.

[AtreyuRoblox]

Perhaps I’m doing something wrong, but both methods return nil for me.

[ahandohs5]

may I see your script? I could try to see why

[AtreyuRoblox]

First one(Works exactly the same):

function GetLikes(universeId)
	local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
	local UniverseId = 6301542900

	local response = HttpService:RequestAsync({
		Url = "https://games.roproxy.com/v1/games/votes?universeIds="..UniverseId,
		Method = "GET"
	})

	if response.Success then
		return HttpService:JSONDecode(response.Body)
	else
		return 0
	end
end

Second method:

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local universeId = 6654970943
local url = "https://games.roblox.com/v1/games/votes?universeIds=" .. universeId

function GetLikes(universeId)
	
	local success, response = pcall(function()
		return HttpService:GetAsync(url)
	end)

	if success then
		local data = HttpService:JSONDecode(response)
		return data.data[1] and data.data[1].upVotes
	else
		return 0
	end
end

[robloxvet33]

Are Http requests enabled for your game? See HttpService | Documentation - Roblox Creator Hub

[AtreyuRoblox]

Yeah they’re enabled. I already went through that mistake

[ahandohs5]

the error seems to be coming from this line

@AtreyuRoblox

local data = HttpService:JSONDecode(response)

My suggestion is to try to use a proxy

[AtreyuRoblox]

I’m sorry if I’m asking for too much, but, How would I do that? I haven’t really gotten into using httpService

[ahandohs5]

well, I havent really worked much with http stuff, however I know there are plenty of resources to figure out how to use them.

[robloxvet33]

I don’t know what a proxy is but I would put a breakpoint before that line and monitor your watch values to see where it’s going wrong. Just as a general debugging tip.

[12345koip]

@AtreyuRoblox

"https://games.roproxy.com/v1/games/votes?universeIds="..UniverseId

RoProxy is a proxy; you are already using a proxy provided you are using the first method. For some reason, I tried this myself, and RoProxy blocks that request. You can test this yourself in the Command Prompt:

should return correct data:

curl -L -X GET https://games.roblox.com/v1/games/votes?universeIds=YOUR_UNIVERSE_ID

sends back the HTML structure for the block message:

curl -L -X GET https://games.roproxy.com/v1/games/votes?universeIds=YOUR_UNIVERSE_ID

So… my suggestion is try a different proxy.

[ExercitusMortem (Exercitus)]

@robloxvet33

I don’t know what a proxy

A proxy is a different device through which traffic can be routed. This can be useful because Roblox blocks a lot of API calls when coming from a Studio client, but it doesn’t for external servers. By routing your traffic through the proxy, you’re sending your API calls from the client to a server, which then sends it to Roblox.

Client → Roblox → {error}
Client → Proxy → Roblox → {succes}

[12345koip]

Update - I’ve found a different URL you can use, and it still uses RoProxy:

games.roproxy.com/v1/games/UNIVERSE_ID/votes

Here’s an example of how to use it:

local httpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local universeId = game.GameId

local success, result = pcall(httpService.RequestAsync, httpService, {
    Url = `https://games.roproxy.com/v1/games/{universeId}/votes`,
    Method = "GET"
})

if (not success) or (response.StatusCode < 200 or response.StatusCode > 300) then
    print("Something went wrong", response.StatusCode)
else
    local likes = httpService:JSONDecode(result).upVotes
    print("The game has "..likes.." likes.")
end

[AtreyuRoblox]

Thank you so much for your response!
I don’t think I would have found an answer without you!
Btw, I modified the code a bit to get it to work, here’s the final version for anyone who wants to use it:

---

local httpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local universeId = game.GameId-- You can also paste the id from the creator dashboard

function getLikes()
	local success, result = pcall(httpService.RequestAsync, httpService, {
		Url = `https://games.roproxy.com/v1/games/{universeId}/votes`,
		Method = "GET"
	})
	

	if (not success) or (result.StatusCode < 200 or result.StatusCode > 300) then
		print("Something went wrong", result.StatusCode)
	else
		return httpService:JSONDecode(result.Body).upVotes -- Works the exat same for "downVotes"
	end
end