Is there a way to save a player's login in one's own game?

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#1

Hello everyone,
my plan is to create a GUI with information about when a specific player was last online. Now, my question is, is this even possible, and if so, how?

I haven’t found anything about it, unfortunately. :frowning:

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#2

Sure this is possible. One way could be to get the time when the player logs out via os.time() and safe it with an DataStore.

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#3

There has to be, but not sure how.
There’s a game called Check a User's Last Online Information [+ More!] - Roblox where you can just type in any user’s name and it’ll give you that stat.

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#4

Yeah right if he want to look when the user was lost online on the Roblox platform he could use the presence api

#5

Yeah it is!
You can save that information using a datastore.

-- ENABLE API SERVICES!!

local DS  = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("Last_Online_Datastore")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

function getLastOnline(playerID)
	local data
	local Success, failed_dataretrieve = pcall(function()
		data = DS:GetAsync(playerID)	
	end)
	if(typeof(data) == "number")then
	if(Success)then
		-- Convert to date
		local formatter = os.date("!*t", data) -- This is the unix timestamp !!
		local date
		local Formatted,Failed_toFormat = pcall(function()
		date = tostring("Hour: "..formatter.hour.." Day: "..formatter.day.." Month: "..formatter.month.." Year: "..formatter.year)
		end)
		if(Formatted)then
			print("Last online of user "..Players:GetNameFromUserIdAsync(playerID).." was: "..date)
		else
			print("Failed to format.")
		end
		end
	else
		print("Data is not number(?) / Player data not available.")
	end
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	-- Check for a players lastonline
	getLastOnline(player.UserId)
	
	-- Set last online now, because they joined
	local Update, failed_update = pcall(function()
		DS:SetAsync(player.UserId, os.time())	
	end)
	
	if(failed_update)then
		warn("Failed to update data!")
	end
end)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	-- Set last online now, because they are leaving
	local Update, failed_update = pcall(function()
		DS:SetAsync(player.UserId, os.time())	
	end)
	
	if(failed_update)then
		warn("Failed to update data!")
	end
	
end)

Here we set a last online whenever a player joins / leaves and it all gets stored in a datastore.
In the function: getLastOnline you MUST give as a parameter a player USERID and it will retrieve their data, if they already played!

Hope this helps.

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