Is there any way to get the most popular games now with the API?

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Hello Developers, it’s been awhile.

I have not used Dev Forums for awhile, but I’m back for a bit.

Anyways, I have a issue, for the last year or so, Roblox has been removing legacy APIs, and one of my games no longer works, and I can’t find a replacement.

I’m mainly talking about this: https://games.roblox.com/v1/games/list

When called, it would output a list of the most popular games on Roblox, here’s a example of the output, saved by the Way Back Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230102024323/https://games.roblox.com/v1/games/list

So, sometime last year, this stopped working, and I need a replacement, or my game will not work. I need something that gets the most popular games, preferably more then 100, and does it in a way where it can be used by a server side script in Roblox.

Just as a note, I have asked this before:

And the solution for that worked for awhile, but now I need a new way.

Thank you for reading, and hope you can help in some way! - - Dan_foodz

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#2

Pretty sure roblox has just abandoned the list api because of how much data it provides, it might be intensive on the servers and i have had a decent look and i cannot find anything.

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#3

Maybe https://www.rolimons.com will help you. In this site you can see a lot of information about any person or a game. Also they did it so you can do it too.

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#4

Thanks for the idea!

I did some digging, and I did find a API endpoint: https://api.rolimons.com/games/v1/gamelist

It outputs the following format:

{
  "success": true, // Request status.
  "game_count": 5456, // Amount of games in there database.
  "games": { // List of all games in there database.
    "1818": [ // The place id of the game.
      "Classic: Crossroads", // The name of the game.
      3, // Active Players.
      "https://tr.rbxcdn.com/180DAY-003880f20398d5a6779423261a6b58f3/150/150/Image/Webp/noFilter" // Icon of the game.
    ], ... // There are a lot more.
  }
}

This is not, a drop in replacement, but it’s the best you can do without the Roblox API!

Thank you for the idea, @DinoKris30! Have a great and blessed day! - Dan_foodz

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