I’ve been searching through various sources such as YouTube, Roblox API reference, dev-fourm but I have not found anything to do with creating a server that you can communicate with using http request or API.
I am aiming to make a website that is able for me to read applications. I wan’t to know if this is still possible.
This is my first post, don’t go to harsh on me.
I don’t know if you mean create an external server and send requests from in-game or receive requests from in-game.
If you’re trying to send requests to an external api, then yes this is certainly possible. Grab the url for the api and send a request using RequestAsync(). Fill out your parameters and headers and everything and boom.
If you’re trying for the latter, that’s not possible. Roblox doesn’t really support receiving HTTP requests. However, there is a workaround. Create an external server that can receive HTTP requests. Then, periodically send a request from in-game to the your server and get all of the data from the request. It’s a bit tacky I know but it works sorta.
If you need a more in-depth explanation of one of the two, just ask. (I know I’m definitely not the best at explaining things)
Thank you for giving me some information on the service.I’ll look into this and see what I can get out of it.
My other question is if you have a website that is owned by you are you able to add data to that website through roblox? I’ve looked a bit at PostAsync()
Yes. Assuming you correctly setup everything on your web server, you can do whatever you want on it.
Yes you can. You can even add data to websites that aren’t owned by you. Virtually all HTTP requests can carry data. If the website you’re using accepts data from it, you can send that data to the website in a request. Send data in the body of the request.
Also, PostAsync() sends a POST request (obviously).
You can also send a POST request via RequestAsync(). I prefer RequestAsync to PostAsync as RequestAsync can actually do all of the requests like PUT, GET, PATCH, DELETE, etc. This will allow you to use the various REST api methods on your web app and be a lot more organized. (Not required - before RequestAsync we were able to make apps that accepted only GET and POST requests)
Is there a reason you want to make the GUI on a website instead of in-game? Like perhaps you could have the GUI in game which sends commands to your server instead of having a JavaScript request that sends commands to it.
If you find that setting up your own server to process those commands is difficult, you can check out RBXMod.com. I thought I’d get around to posting a tutorial on how to use it but I’m about to allow passing multiple parameters back and forth which greatly simplifies tasks and wanted to finish it this week before I get the tutorials out. Basically it allow you to run a Lua module on the RBXMod server and connect multiple games to it at once. Long polling is one of the features on my to-do list.
Long polling is having Roblox send a HTTP request to the server and then the server not responding unless it needs to issue a command. Roblox will just sit there and patiently wait as long as the server says it is working on a response. In testing how long TCP connections were kept alive after a HTTP request, I got sick of waiting for it to close at over 10 minutes. I’m not sure if it’ll wait for an HTTP request that long, but it is a possibility. It is much better than continuous polling and doesn’t eat nearly as many limited HTTP requests.