Stock Price of $RBLX inside Roblox

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As I’m sure you’re all aware by now, Roblox has gone public on the NYSE. So, I decided to be the first to bring that data into Roblox.

First, I made a game that uses proper stock APIs to get a whole slew of important data, including a nice graph showing the price over time. It’s pretty feature complete. This one will actually cost me a bit to keep running because I will have to pay for the API service, but it’s worth it.

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Check it out here:

Then, I wanted to create a Studio plugin that can display the RBLX price. The thing is, if I just pasted the game’s method into a plugin, everyone would have my private API keys! That would be really bad security plus you’d all cost me a ton of money by using the plugin. So, I needed to find a way to get the price without using any API service. I accomplished this with a really gross hack- I get the google webpage and then use string manipulation to try to find the price data in the raw dump. It works for now!

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#2

Very cool! Roblox is about to become Rostonks!

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#3

That’s cool to see this implemented on Roblox! I would love to know where you got the API from.

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#4

I can see this being something that I sit down and get mesmerized by when I’m bored, haha. Do you think the game will have an option to sort by timeframe in the future, such as past day, week, month, etc.?

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#5

Roblox really can do some great things…
Did you make this for fun, or planning for this to be implemented into a game (somehow)?

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#6

Really useful, for people without double monitors.(haha) Also, joined the game value was stuck and $00.00, not sure if it’s supposed to be like that.

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#7

Welp. I guess I should give up on my Ro-Street Stock Exchange because someone else did it. :frowning: Good job though.

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#8

Wow, thank you @boatbomber How you managed to accomplish that is beyond me… it will be interesting to see how this plays out in the next few days, seeing as newly released stocks tend to spike and then settle…

The plugin will also be interesting to watch as I develop…

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#9

Guess who’s bout’ to stare at this stock all day? :sunglasses:

The logo is fairly low resolution though. :flushed:

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#10

To the moon!!!
:new_moon:
and beyond

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#11

I honestly don’t know why I haven’t though of this yet lol.

$RBLX to the moon! :rocket::new_moon:

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#12

there’s no reason you should. keep at it g.

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#13

You’re not telling me that GET requests return the full HTML of a webpage!? :star_struck:

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#15

It’s so fun how google and edge show different stock prices…
Cool plugin though.

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#16

Update to the StockWatch plugin:

  • You can check any stock on the NYSE, not just RBLX
  • Directional arrow pops up when price updates, showing the direction since the previous value

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#17

Here a cool spinning effect and many have told me you made such a plugin, so maybe you could use it if you’d like to spice up your UI a bit

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#18

I like the idea, and I’ve implemented a spinning number display!

However, I didn’t use your creation for it. Yours is hardcoded to certain font/textsize properties, and it’s not a module. Therefore, I wrote my own for this plugin and open sourced it here:

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#19

Ooh. Looks very nice. I’m guessing you used http service

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#20

I think it might be better to have the arrows stay until the next update rather than fading out immediately, I find I hardly ever see them.

happy birthday btw

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#21

am quite impressed of the “really gross hack” to fix such a problem that I would assume impossible to fix :laughing:
Genius!

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