I’ll start off by saying that I am extremely new to all this API stuff and using HttpService to make requests so bear with me. I have done tons of research on the Open Cloud features and implementing my own API key and secrets, but I cannot get it to work and I am stuck on what to do next.
Here is the code I am trying to implement:
local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local function request()
local response = HttpService:RequestAsync({
Url = `https://apis.roblox.com/toolbox-service/v2/assets:search`,
Method = "GET",
Headers = {
["Content-Type"] = "application/json",
["x-api-key"] = HttpService:GetSecret(secret), -- secret is replacing secret name string I have set
},
})
if response.Success then
print("Status code:", response.StatusCode, response.StatusMessage)
print("Response body:\n", response.Body)
print("Response headers:\n", HttpService:JSONEncode(response.Headers))
else
print("The request failed:", response.StatusCode, response.StatusMessage)
end
end
-- Remember to wrap the function in a 'pcall' to prevent the script from breaking if the request fails
local success, message = pcall(request)
if not success then
print("Http Request failed:", message)
end
My main goal in all of this is to create a UI search that allows players to search for any audio on Roblox and queue it for the server. Of course, I could just go with allowing players to input their own audio asset ID, but I wanted to make it more intuitive for players.
I saw that I should be using https://apis.roblox.com/toolbox-service/v2/assets:search from the documentation.
It seems like these are newer features, as I have not seen tutorial videos or much that can help a newbie like me figure out this topic.
I can’t dedicate much time atm, but just to give you a quick response to go off:
Except for the few APIs listed in this post, you are unable to access Roblox endpoints from within a Roblox Server. Attempting to will always result in the request erroring (which is what I believe is happening for you right now).
To get around this, you need to find a proxy which supports the endpoint you want. There should be a few listed on the devforum that you can try.
I am getting an error, but I think what I am trying to access is marked in that post under Creator Store.
I have heard about using a proxy, but I was trying to avoid this because it sounds complicated (at least for me since I haven’t used them), and I was hoping this would be a simpler way.
CreatorStoreProduct is a seperate heading to Toolbox Service (the one you used), so I don’t think it can be used
I suspect that the use of a proxy is unavoidable. They shouldn’t be too complicated though, and there should be a few tutorials on the devforum and on Youtube showing how to utilise them
The endpoint in your post is accessible via HttpService (updated the link in the original announcement to a better page with just that endpoint).
For future reference, I would recommend changing this to
else
print("The request failed:", response.StatusCode, response.StatusMessage)
print("Response body:\n", response.Body)
end
to help with debugging (updated the code example on https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/HttpService with this). You should see an error of The searchCategoryType field is required. This indicates that you need to provide that query parameter like so: https://apis.roblox.com/toolbox-service/v2/assets:search?searchCategoryType=Audio
