How to "Validate" a game ID

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#1

I am having the player input what is hopefully a game ID. My goal is to determine if this is a valid game ID that actually exists on roblox. I know I can check that it is in the proper numerical format and is the appropriate amount of characters, but is there any way to validate that the game exists itself?

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#2

You can use Market Place Service But you will need to do other things with it

#3

You could encase this in a pcall function, & checking if the Player has entered a valid GameID or not you could use MarketplaceService’s GetProductInfo function checking if the player entered a valid place depending on what ID the player entered in:

local MPS = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
local ID = 302940952492

local PlaceCheck
local success, whoops = pcall(function()
    PlaceCheck = MPS:GetProductInfo(ID)
end)

if success and PlaceCheck and PlaceCheck.AssetTypeId == 9 then
    print("The player has entered a valid place ID")
else
    warn("The player has entered a incorrect valid place ID: ", whoops)
end
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Random Number Generator/Place ID teleport
#4

That could work, but are you sure a game is considered an asset?

#5

Well, GetProductInfo returns a Dictionary of Information for the “item” you want to find (Such as the date it was created, the owner’s name, etc), if you’re referring to game.PlaceId then I believe that’s only possible across your games locally

The AssetTypeId could either be a Number, Enum, or Name

#6

Im not even referring to game.PlaceId. Im referring to game.Id. Its the ID of the game (universe) itself. Not the place. Thats why im skeptical.

#7

I believe you’ll probably need to send a proxy request possibly using something like rprxy then since I don’t think you can exactly get the game.Id in different games, you’d need to send one instead using a proxy

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#8

Sadly, I am clueless on how to set up rprxy. If anyone thinks of an easier way, I would prefer that. If not, this will work. Thanks.

#9

What do you mean by setting up rprxy?

It’s a proxy that lets you get data from the roblox website

HttpService:GetAsync("https://rprxy.com/") -- Can't remember exact format
#10

yeah thing is it gets ratelimited quite often so you have to selfhost it

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