HttpService Question

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#1

After HttpService:PostAsync, a new post appears on pastebin. How to get data from this post from another script without a link?

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#2

How to read post from another script without any links.

#3

when the first script posts something to pastebin

it should also set what it posted in a
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/StringValue

then the seconds script can use
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/StringValue/Changed
to detect when the first script posted something to read the value that was posted

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#4

What if the other script is on a different server.

#5

im not sure what kind of data your trying to send but cant you send the data using

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/MessagingService

here is how to use MessagingService

#6

@5uphi’s solution works fine if it’s within the same experience (game/server). For this, you’ll need to use a GET request, which would look like this:

local urlOf = "https://pastebin.com/raw/%d"
local pastebinId = ...

local function getPastebinCode()
    local data
    local success, errMessage = pcall(
        function()
            data = HttpService:GetAsync(urlOf:format(pastebindId))
            if #data > 0 then
                data = HttpService:JSONDecode(data)
            end
        end
    )

    if success then
        return data
    end
end

If it worked, mark it as the solution. :+1:

#7

pastebindId is “https://pastebin.com/id”?

#8

And is it possible to read the post knowing only dev_key?
or no. If no your answer will be the solution.

#9

Completely! When you create the post and you store the data in return from the PostAsync request, you’ll be storing the id, I would say to use a Signal to store such thing and use some string pattern to find the numbers within the string, It would be too complicated but something like this could work perfectly fine:

-- post script
local dataInReturn = HttpService:PostAsync(...) -- your request to post a pastebin
Signal:Fire(dataInReturn)

And then…

-- get script
local pastebinUrls = {}
local event = ... -- the signal event

event:Connect(
    function(urlToStore)
        table.insert(pastebinUrls, urlToStore)
    end
)

local function getId(pastebinUrl)
    return string.match(pastebinUrl, "%d+")
end

This is just a bit more complicated example, but this is how I would do it. :+1:

#10

This is not possible, since the script won’t know which script to look at! You could have 6 pastebin but, what script should your program get? That’s why you need the ID as it is the unique identifier for it.

#11

Thanks for the help. You helped solve my problem.

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#12

And yes, I understand that you can not change the pastebin post.