Authentication

To authenticate our client, we need our .ROBLOSECURITY token. To learn about why we need this and how to get it, please see ROBLOSECURITY.

Once we have our token, we can add it to our client by passing it as the first parameter. Use the following code and replace TOKEN with the .ROBLOSECURITY token grabbed earlier to authenticate your client.

from roblox import Client
client = Client("TOKEN")

To test your token, replace the code in main() with the following:

user = await client.get_authenticated_user()
print("ID:", user.id)
print("Name:", user.name)

If this raises an error, or the name and ID differ from what is expected, follow the instructions and try again. The issue with this structure is that it is not secure. It's easy to slip up and copy your code and accidentally send someone your token, and it makes it harder to collaborate on code with others.

Using a .env file

To solve this problem, we'll create a separate file called .env which will contain our token.

Your file should look like this, where TOKEN is the .ROBLOSECURITY token you grabbed earlier.

.env

ROBLOXTOKEN=TOKEN

Place it in the same folder as your application's main file.

Your file structure should look like this:

.
├─ .env
└─ main.py

Next, install the python-dotenv library with the following command:

$ pip install python-dotenv

Then, add these lines to the top of your code:

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

After that, replace the code where you generate your client with this:

load_dotenv()
client = Client(os.getenv("ROBLOXTOKEN"))

Test it with get_authenticated_user and you should be all set!

Finished code

main.py

import asyncio
import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from roblox import Client

load_dotenv()

client = Client(os.getenv("ROBLOXTOKEN"))

async def main():
    user = await client.get_authenticated_user()
    print("ID:", user.id)
    print("Name:", user.name)

asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(main())