Want to get a notification when your favorite Roblox player (read: Youtuber) is playing?
My kids want to know that too, as they can then try to join their favorite players and maybe meet them in Roblox - yes thats a big thing for kids these days.
My 2 min. Google research told me that Roblox don't have that feature already and nobody had created a similar service that did it. To be honest as a developer, I actually wanted to create this small tool myself, just for the fun of it :)
NOTE: This is a Windows only application
Download latest release and unzip it.
To replace the default Roblox players in the app you need to open the file RobloxPlayerNotifierApp.exe.config.
In there you will find this line:
<add key="PlayerNamesToMonitor" value="ComKeanOfficial;Emil_trier;Mikkel_trier"/>Replace the "ComKeanOfficial;Emil_trier;Mikkel_trier", with a semi-colon (;) seperated list of Roblox players you want to get notifications for.
Example:
<add key="PlayerNamesToMonitor" value="Player01;Player02;Player03"/>Now start the application - "RobloxPlayerNotifierApp.exe" and you should see the application running. IMPORTANT: The application have to run (can be minimized) for it to work, it doesn't run in the background or in tray.
When one of the players you have added to your config file joins a game (try it with your own username to see it working) a notification sound will be played and a green button next to the playername in the app will light up.
- Why didn't you just build this in JavaScript, then it would have worked on Mac and Linux too?
- Because it's JavaScript! --> https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat ... you want more? Ok, https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f
This project was originally created as a quick and dirty solution for my kids to get notified when there favorite youtubers came online in Roblox. Yes, I know, a tool you cannot live without :P Don't take it too serious as it was created in a few hours. However, it solved the "problem" my kids had :)