[uses 3rd party json url] Score system among several experiences

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I want to achieve the affect where several roblox games can use this one JSON url to create a scoring system
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  2. What is the issue?
    I don’t know how to get just one of the values… I’m using the HttpService:GetAsync(url) which gets me the entire json object but I want to grab just one value (example: "Pink":"0")

  3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local TeamScoresURL = "THE URL GOES HERE"

print(HttpService:GetAsync(TeamScoresURL))

The following will output

{
  "Pink":"0",
  "NavyBlue":"0",
  "Red":"0",
  "Teal":"0",
  "Lime":"0",
  "Orange":"0",
}

Any help is appreciated on this!
#2

You can use the JSONDecode method of HttpService to parse the JSON string to a Lua dictionary.

local results = --//http request
local data = game:GetService("HttpService"):JSONDecode(results)

print(data.Pink) --//something similar to this, haven't done this before but yee
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#3

Just saying, you might wanna censor out the tab showing the link above the search bar if you want it private.

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#4

Thanks for the fast response but what is results variable for like what do I put there?

Thanks for this however I’m not really worried about it.

I’ve never used the roblox http service before sry

#5

Results is just where you call GetAsync to retrieve the JSON output.

#6

As of right now it has the error Can't parse JSON not really sure why. Even when I try to just print data
The current script I have right now is

local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local TeamScoresURL = "url removed as I don't the devforums link rules"

local results = HttpService:GetAsync(TeamScoresURL)--//http request
local data = HttpService:JSONDecode(results)

print(data)
#7

Print results and verify it’s returning a valid JSON string

#8

Printing results with data var:
Does not work (cant parse json)

Printing results with data var disabled:
Works and prints the json