Is there a way to obtain an AssetId from an AssetVersionId?

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#1

I’ve been researching this for a while to no avail - is there a way to obtain an Asset ID from an AssetVersionId? There are ways to obtain the current AssetVersionId from an Asset ID, but I am not aware of any ways to convert the other way around.

As a reference, if you use this to obtain the items a user is currently wearing: https://api.roblox.com/v1.1/avatar-fetch?userId=USERID, you will see accessoryVersionIds (a list of AssetVersionIds). While you are able to insert instances of the assets themselves using game:GetService("InsertService"):LoadAssetVersion(assetVersionId), there is no apparent way to identify the actual asset ID (unless you insert the AssetVersion, visually recognize the item, and then manually try to search its name on the Avatar Shop to find it)

The only reason I am using this way instead of using https://avatar.roblox.com/v1/users/USERID/avatar (which actually directly gives the Asset IDs) is because only the first way works for terminated users’ avatars. If you try this second way (or any other way) on a terminated user’s ID, it will say “The specified user does not exist.”

Example of what I mean: (for the terminated user “Minish”)
-works: https://api.roblox.com/v1.1/avatar-fetch?userId=136893
-does not work: https://avatar.roblox.com/v1/users/136893/avatar

#2

I looked around for a while and couldn’t find anything, with older and newer API. So I’m guessing since there isn’t even really any documentation on it, I’m going to go with no.

Also, is there an exact reason you need to use this method? I understand the other way doesn’t give information on terminated accounts but why are you needing to check terminated accounts?

#3

Basically for the purpose of being able to morph into those users and view/buy their avatar’s components. You used to be able to do this with terminated users up until a few months ago, and I have a game where people like to morph into all kinds of users (some being terminated ones). Granted, I could try to assemble their avatar piece-by-piece with each asset but that’d be extremely infeasible, especially when it comes to bundle parts and animations.

Interestingly, I looked around and a Roblox trading fansite had some way (?) of obtaining the actual Asset IDs of such users: https://rblx.trade/p/Minish

#4

Maybe try reaching out to them on Discord or Twitter to see how they did it? Their socials are linked at the bottom of the website. They could have done it with the asset version IDs somehow.