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Posts for developers building tools on top of Roblox or the FriendPath API.

May 14, 2026 · 7 min read
How to Use the FriendPath API in Your Own Roblox Tool or Game
Friend-path lookups as a single HTTP call. Build leaderboards, in-Roblox path games, Discord bots, friend overlap features — anything that needs to know social distance between two accounts. API key from arbastro Suite (50 free Scan calls/day + $0.005/call). Free Famous Users API too.
May 14, 2026 · 9 min read
How to Build a Roblox Friend Discord Bot With FriendPath
End-to-end tutorial: build a Discord bot that answers /friendpath user1 user2 with the degrees of separation between two Roblox players. Source code included.
May 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Roblox Player:IsFriendsWith() Explained — Limits, Bugs, and Alternatives
The built-in Lua function for checking friendships only works on in-server players, has had multi-year reliability bugs, and can't handle the things devs usually want. Here's the full breakdown plus better alternatives.
May 14, 2026 · 8 min read
How FriendPath Works: Bidirectional BFS Explained
The naive approach to finding a friend path is to fan out from one user until you bump into the other. That's painfully slow. Here's how searching from both ends at once makes the problem ~thousand times faster.
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