What I want to do is detect which year a Roblox account was created using the https service. Originally, I thought I could just use accountage and substract the current year from that but I realized that once new year happens then it will auto set the Roblox account creation date in game to +1 even though it should wait till the actual day for ex may or April when ever it was created.
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tried using player.AccountAge?
it gives you account age in days (as far as i know) but if you divide it buy 365 it abd round it it should give you the age.
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The thing is the game gives out titles titles based on the join date for ex 2013,2016,2020 etc
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Let’s say a player joined April 5th 2020 and they log on on in January of 2024 then I think it would switch to 4 years instead of waiting until April 5
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oh i get it but dont know how to archive it srry.
maybe this can help idk https://devforum.roblox.com/t/how-to-make-a-real-time-account-creation-tracker/1914121
Can I use the Roblox api instead?
i guess so… i dont really understand how this script works
Yes.
You can use https://users.roblox.com/v1/users/{id}
However, roblox servers do not allow you to access the roblox api directly, so you have to change the url to https://users.roproxy.com/v1/users/{id}
local http = game:GetService("HttpService")
local id = 1
local res = http:GetAsync("https://users.roproxy.com/v1/users/"..id)
local data = http:JSONDecode(res)
local joinDate = data.created
The documentation for this API is under Swagger UI.
You don’t even need HttpsService for this use case. Here’s a more practical way of utilizing Player.AccountAge:
- Using the account age (the amount of days since the account was created), multiply it by 86400 to get the amount of seconds
- Subtract the current time from the calculated account age in seconds, this will give you the timestamp of when the account was created.
- Lastly, get the year of the timestamp of when the account was created.
function getCreationYear(plr: Player)
local seconds_since_creation = (plr.AccountAge * 86400) -- Amount of seconds since the account was created
local account_created_seconds = os.time() - seconds_since_creation -- The exact time the account was created
local date = os.date("%Y", account_created_seconds) -- Get the year of when the account was created
return tonumber(date)
end
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But how about leap days how could I align teh code for that
os.date() already accounts for leap days.
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Pretty much what I want to do is give a player the veteran tag if they created their account in 2006-2008 or classic in 2009-2012 etc
Sorry to be nitpicky - but isn’t it 86,400 seconds in a day - not 84,600?
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Just noticed that! Thanks, I fixed it.
In that case, use if and else conditions to check if a user goes into a specific group. Here’s a small sample of the full code:
local players = game:GetService("Players")
function getCreationYear(plr: Player)
local seconds_since_creation = (plr.AccountAge * 86400) -- Amount of seconds since the account was created
local account_created_seconds = os.time() - seconds_since_creation -- The exact time the account was created
local date = os.date("%Y", account_created_seconds) -- Get the year of when the account was created
return tonumber(date)
end
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
age = getCreationYear(plr)
if age <= 2012 then
if age >= 2006 and age <= 2008 then
print("Veteran")
else
print("Classic")
end
else
print("Not Veteran or Classic")
end
end)
If you need more then 2 tags, then it would be better to use tables/dictionaries instead (see post below).
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function YearCreated(P:Player)
local SecondsOld = P.AccountAge * 86400
local TimeStamp = os.time() - SecondsOld
local Year = tonumber(os.date("%Y", TimeStamp))
return Year
end
local Tags = {
{Date = 2006,Tag="Veteran"},
{Date = 2010,Tag="Classic"},
{Date = 2015,Tag="Seasoned"},
{Date = 2020,Tag="COVID"},
{Date = 2024,Tag="Noob"},
}
function GetTag(Player:Player)
local PlayerAge = YearCreated(Player)
for _,Tags in ipairs(Tags) do
if Tags.Date > PlayerAge then
return Tags.Tag
end
end
return nil
end
This should suit your purposes 
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Yeah I was thinking of using tables cuz ima use math.clamp for the year ranges for each tag
Also how would I detect a player anniversary? Would I need to make a separate variable for the creation date and access the month and day and do the same thing with the current day
You basically reuse the same exact getCreationYear() code. The only change is to use the parameter *t for os.date():
function getAnniversaryDate(plr: Player)
local seconds_since_creation = plr.AccountAge * 86400 -- Amount of seconds since the account was created
local account_created_seconds = os.time() - seconds_since_creation -- The exact time the account was created
local date = os.date("*t", account_created_seconds) -- Returns a dictionary of values for the date
return date
end
The variable date will give you a dictionary with all the dates you need (the day, month, year the account was created etc). Note that the values with in the dictionary return a number (e.g. month returns between 1 (January) and 12 (December)), so you’ll need to code accordingly.
An example of how you can use this function:
local players = game:GetService("Players")
local months = {"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"}
function getAnniversaryDate(plr: Player)
local seconds_since_creation = (plr.AccountAge * 86400) -- Amount of seconds since the account was created
local account_created_seconds = os.time() - seconds_since_creation -- The exact time the account was created
return os.date("*t", account_created_seconds) -- Get the year of when the account was created
end
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
local dict = getAnniversaryDate(plr)
print(string.format("%s was created on: %s %s, %s", plr.Name, months[dict.month], dict.day, dict.year))
end)
Even better, you can also use the getAnniversaryDate() function to fetch the date of the year the account was created, by simply using dict.year. Like this:
players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
local dict = getAnniversaryDate(plr)
print(string.format("%s was created on: %s %s, %s", plr.Name, months[dict.month], dict.day, dict.year))
print(string.format("%s was created in the year %s", plr.Name, dict.year))
end)