Trying to access profile description of players

[Violet_sheer (TheOtherSider)]

I’m working on making a profile description of players accessible in my scripts but I don’t think its possible.

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")

local Signals = ReplicatedStorage.Signals
local Functions = Signals.Functions

Functions.ToServer.OnServerInvoke = function(player,signal,userInfo)
	if signal == "GetDescription" then
		local url = "https://www.roblox.com/users/" .. userInfo.Id .. "/profile"
		local response = HttpService:GetAsync(url)
		local html = response.Body

		local description = string.match(html, "<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(.*)\">")
		return description
	end
end

I tried the script above on the server but I got the error: HttpService is not allowed to access ROBLOX resources.

Does this mean its impossible if the Roblox API won’t allow me?

[Katrist]

You need to use a proxy as for some reason, the Roblox API doesn’t accept requests from Roblox game servers. A popular proxy is roproxy. You should also be using the actual Roblox APIs instead of scraping the webpage, as it will be faster and more efficient.

Fixed code:

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")

local Signals = ReplicatedStorage.Signals
local Functions = Signals.Functions

Functions.ToServer.OnServerInvoke = function(player, signal, userInfo)
	if signal == "GetDescription" then
		local url = "https://users.roproxy.com/v1/users/" .. userInfo.Id
		local response = HttpService:GetAsync(url)
		local description = HttpService:JSONDecode(response).description

		return description
	end
end

[Violet_sheer (TheOtherSider)]

Woah that actually worked I’ll have to look into more of the external APIs.