How would I count all badges a user has?

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#1

Does anyone have any idea of how I can achive a working badge counter that counts all pages of badges (assuming one page is 30 badges) by using the total badges a user has. However, I need a method to gather the count of all the users badges.

If anyone could help me, I’d apprecaite it a ton!

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#2

Assuming you’re talking about all of the badges the user has on Roblox, you’re unfortunately going to have to do a chain of http requests to their badges API (make sure to switch to v1), which may take a while depending on how many badges a given user has (for example my account at the time of writing has 1590 badges, so it takes at least 16 GET requests to count the number of badges I have).

You basically need to keep doing the get request with the returned nextPageCursor. The following is a translated version of the code that wrote to get my own badge count. An important caveat is that you need to use a proxy to get this information, as HttpService is not allowed to request resources from Roblox itself. Look into ProxyService if this is something you want to set up yourself. The code here is just an example of how it would work if HttpService could access Roblox resources.

local Http = game:GetService("HttpService")
local userId = ...
local baseUrl = `https://badges.roblox.com/v1/users/{userId}/badges?limit=100`

local badgeCount = 0
local cursor = nil
repeat
    -- cautionary wait; this may be unnecessary,
    -- but I didn't want to get rate-limited myself lol
    wait(1)
    local url = if cursor then baseUrl .. `?cursor={cursor}` else baseUrl
    local response = Http:RequestAsync({
        Url = url,
        Method = "GET",
    })
    if response.Success then
        local body = Http:JSONDecode(response.Body)
        badgeCount += #body.data
        cursor = body.nextPageCursor
        print("Current badge count:", badgeCount)
    else
        print(response.StatusCode)
        print(response.StatusMessage)
        -- Going to assume we got rate limited
        wait(30)
    end
until cursor == nil

print(badgeCount)
Original Code

Original code that I ran using Lune.

local net = require "@lune/net"
local task = require "@lune/task"

local USER_ID = 143432
local baseUrl = `https://badges.roblox.com/v1/users/{USER_ID}/badges?limit=100`

local badge_count = 0
local next_page_cursor: string? = nil
repeat
    task.wait(1)
    local response = net.request({
        url = baseUrl,
        method = "GET",
        query = {
            ["limit"] = "100",
            ["cursor"] = next_page_cursor
        },
    })

    if response.ok then
        local body = net.jsonDecode(response.body)
        badge_count += #body.data
        next_page_cursor = body.nextPageCursor
        print("Badge count:", badge_count)
    else
        print("Error in response:")
        print(response.statusCode)
        print(response.statusMessage)
        task.wait(10)
    end
until next_page_cursor == nil

print(`Number of badges: {badge_count}`)

If you try running this code you’ll notice, even with the waits removed, it takes a while to complete, so I’d advise dropping the idea unless strictly necessary, especially with all the extra effort you need to go through of setting up a proxy.

Assuming that you do go forward with it, I’d strongly suggest implementing some sort of system that will only need to do this once, store a reference to the latest badge the user has been awarded and the number badges the user has to your own data store, and update it only when the user has gotten new badges.

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#3

I created a Python version of this idea but not on Lua language. If you needed an api endpoint for this project, use this https://api.roblox.com/users/{userId}/badges has no limit if your just looking for badge count.

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#4

As far as I’m aware Roblox has disabled the api.roblox.com endpoint since last year. Tried doing a quick curl request to make sure.

Looked around a bit more and I don’t think there’s an equivalent of this anywhere, at least from what I could see in the roblox web apis repo. Did you use some other endpoint in your python script? It might be outdated otherwise.

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#5

Here you can use my python script.

import requests

def get_badge_count(user_id):
    url = f"https://badges.roblox.com/v1/users/{user_id}/badges"
    params = {"limit": 100}  # Whatever. it will still give how many badge counts it has even if its pass 100  even 500.
    total_badges = 0

    try:
        while True:
            response = requests.get(url, params=params)
            response.raise_for_status()
            badges_data = response.json()
            badge_count = len(badges_data["data"])
            total_badges += badge_count

            cursor = badges_data.get("nextPageCursor")
            if not cursor:
                break 

            params["cursor"] = cursor

        return total_badges

    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print("Error fetching badge count:", e)
        return None

def main():
    user_id = input("User ID: ")
    badge_count = get_badge_count(user_id)
    if badge_count is not None:
        print(f"The user has {badge_count} badges.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Lua and Python have difference in terms of parsing or scraping.

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