WOW, this is extremely awesome! This gives me the motivation to develop, or even better, I need to develop something with it!
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That’s great! Best use-case I can think of is for people on like discord can join a specific server for like a group game or to help devs debug a specific problem.
My current idea that I will get around to actually bring to life is have a discord bot show a list of running servers with a link to each server and the amount of players on each one so that we can join when a user has a particular issue we want to debug (since our game is small enough to talk to the player base).
For anyone interested, I have been recently playing with WebStore developer subscription and Google approved plugin for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lcefjaknjehbafdeacjbjnfpfldjdlcc
Although github repository does not exist for it, the script is 31-line long and I can share that upon contacting me. It can be previewed in browsers’ developer tools as well.
All link formats are noted in plugin’s description.
It works on Google Chrome and other browsers supporting Google’s WebStore (i.e. Opera).
Hope that helps people looking for such solution in future.
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For those wondering, it appears this has been patched. I’ve been getting reports this no longer works and testing it myself this seems to be the case. If you were to go and use the scripts i provided you’ll get this error message when attempting to join a player:
I have no idea how to fix this. I’ve tried everything i can imagine, even looking for any new method that was added to the Roblox site. But no luck. If anyone has found a workaround please let me know.
It also appears that the plugin posted by @Etheroit has the same issue.
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My plugin works for me properly. Could you let me know what you tried to do so I can take a further look?
The error you posted might be caused by the game server (job you’re trying to join) not being active anymore.
Thanks in advance
That is so odd. The code i posted above worked perfectly fine back then when i posted it but now that i’m taking another look at it, it’s not working and showing the error in the image above. I did the same thing, just added the gameId to the end of the url (www.roblox.com/games/ID/NAME?gameId=GAMEID) from within a game, posted it to Discord where i can click the link and then, well, clicked it. But, with tampermonkey disabled and your plugin enabled.
I have a mac with a secondary account which i used to stay in the game server, then i clicked the link with my pc where i have your plugin and tampermonkey installed.
What did you test exactly and how?
(source: https://github.com/DevKurka/RobloxURLLauncher)
Game id should be id of publicly accessible game (otherwise it will result in error).This would be DataModel.JobId
You may also find it when using inspect element on “Join” button on server list page.
The join URL would be
https://www.roblox.com/games/920587237/Adopt-Me?gameId=e1285c14-cf34-413f-8dda-0e76a7edbe46
Using it works properly for me (it might fail to work if you try to use it when the specific server is no longer available)
If you plan just to make it join a game and not specific game instance, you can simply do
https://www.roblox.com/games/920587237/Adopt-Me?placeId=920587237
or more reliable
https://www.roblox.com/home?placeId=920587237
EDIT: From what I see you’re using game.GameId instead of game.JobId as it should be. I haven’t tried GameId before, it might have worked before and not anymore. For sure the .GameId argument was never required for game join and never meant to be there though.
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So that fixed it. That’s very weird how it worked fine before. Thank you so much!
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how would i make a link make the player automatically join the game? (i need it for a cool discord server bot button i want to do)
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View my answer. The user needs to have Tampermonkey installed as a plugin in the browser or use @Etheroit Chrome extension. But both do the same, they watch for specific parameters(gameID and Job ID) in the URL, then start-up Roblox. Thing is, the server the players are in needs to be in a public server. If you send them to a private server there’s no way to join via link even if you have the code.
The URL home?placeId and etc. doesn’t seem to work anymore. I’ve never searched for this before until now, so I never got the possibility to see if it ever worked.
Taken from https://plsdonate.me/{username}
https://www.roblox.com/games/start?placeId={PLACE_ID}&launchData={LAUNCH_DATA}
Launch data is optional and you access it inside the game so you can setup custom actions for different launch data. Maybe you can add job id in the url somewhere. Good luck.
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This worked perfectly like this:
https://www.roblox.com/games/start?placeId={placeId}&gameId={gameId}
Nothing else needs to be installed
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I know this is old but, here is a neat way to launch from a website.
Most sites support protocol links so it should work.
<roblox://experiences/start?placeId=PlaceId&gameInstanceId=JobId>
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how to connect to PrivateServer with serverid using URL?
like this?
roblox://experiences/start?placeId=PlaceId&serverId=serverid
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I am not sure if you can do that
Could someone provide an little sample code?
Recap of “Join specific game server via url”
Format link:
local serverLink = string.format("{Your game link}?gameid=" .. game.JobId)
Basic link:
www.roblox.com/games/0/SuperAwsomeGame?gameid=1235
Are there any ways we could communicate between servers to find their url, Like a community browser in CS. Another question is if we did get that url, is there a way to see what players are in that server.
You could use messaging service and make each server return it’s JobId