Script that does things from printed items in output

[irlkaleI (Ninja)]

Hello I want to make a script that looks for printed things in the output like print(“Instance Part”) and follows the a piece of code it has if it finds it in output. I dont know how I would start can anyone give me ideas?

[JarodOfOrbiter]

You’d probably want to start by looking into LogService and loadstring.

[irlkaleI (Ninja)]

Would a script like this work?

if Output:Find("Instance part") then
	Instance.new("Part")
end

[HolisThaDev (holis)]

You can achieve this by using the print function to print a specific message and then looking for that message in the output log using the Output service in Roblox.

Here’s an example of how you can do it:

-- The message to look for in the output log
local messageToFind = "Instance Part"

-- Look for the message in the output log
game:GetService("LogService").MessageOut:Connect(function(message, messageType)
    if messageType == Enum.MessageType.MessageOutput and message:find(messageToFind) then
        -- The message was found, so run the code you want to execute
        print("Found the message!")
        -- Your code goes here
    end
end)

In this script, we first define the message that we want to look for in the output log. Then, we use the MessageOut event of the LogService to listen for messages that are output to the console. When a message is output, we check if it matches the message we’re looking for. If it does, we run the code that we want to execute.

Note that you’ll need to replace the – Your code goes here comment with the actual code you want to execute when the message is found.

[irlkaleI (Ninja)]

I have a question. Since we cant use data stores in local scripts, can we just print something and do the data store in a normal script?

[HolisThaDev (holis)]

Yes, that’s correct. Since local scripts can only access data that is immediately available on the client, they can’t directly interact with data stores. However, you can still use data stores in a normal server script and then use a local script to trigger the data store operation and receive the result by printing a message to the console.

For example, you could use a RemoteFunction to send a request from the local script to the server script, which would then use a DataStoreService to interact with the data store. Once the server script has received the result from the data store, it can return the result to the client using the RemoteFunction’s return value.

In the local script, you can then print a message to the console indicating whether the data store operation was successful or not, based on the result that was returned from the server script.

Here’s an example of how you could implement this:

-- Define a RemoteFunction for communicating with the server
local dataStoreRequest = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("DataStoreRequest")
local dataStoreFunction = dataStoreRequest:WaitForChild("DataStoreFunction")

-- Send a request to the server to get the value from the data store
local result = dataStoreFunction:InvokeServer("GetData")

-- Check if the data store operation was successful and print a message
if result then
print("Successfully retrieved data from the data store!")
else
print("Failed to retrieve data from the data store.")
end

In the server script, you could then handle the data store operation like this:

-- Define a RemoteFunction for handling data store requests from the client
local dataStoreRequest = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("DataStoreRequest")
local dataStoreFunction = dataStoreRequest:WaitForChild("DataStoreFunction")

-- Define a DataStoreService to interact with the data store
local dataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local dataStore = dataStoreService:GetDataStore("ExampleDataStore")

-- Handle data store requests from the client
dataStoreFunction.OnServerInvoke = function(player, requestType)
if requestType == "GetData" then
-- Get data from the data store
local success, result = pcall(function()
return dataStore:GetAsync("exampleData")
end)

    -- Return the result to the client
    return success and result or nil
end
end

This is just a simple example, but it should give you an idea of how you can use a local script to trigger a data store operation in a server script and receive the result by printing a message to the console.