densenet/scriptinghelpers-archive

This is a small dataset containing question/answer articles on (now defunct) scriptinghelpers.org, which was a StackExchange-like website for Roblox developers. It was scraped from archive.org about a year ago and parsed with regex.

Trivia

• —There are 2097 archived articles with accepted answers out of 5129.
• —The earliest question archived was posted on Sat Feb 1 23:57:31 2014 with question_id 1 by TheGuyWithAShortName entitled HttpService - PostAsync . It had an accepted answer posted on 2014-02-17 03:11:33 by MarkOtaris.
• —The last question archived was posted on Sun Apr 2 01:40:15 2023 with question_id 133258 by RedWirePlatinum entitled Help with making a bouncy character script *without* creating instances?.
• —The last question archived with an accepted answer was posted on Thu Mar 30 18:53:16 2023 with question_id 133254 by krLuCiEzkr entitled LocalScript that checks if a player has this badge doesn't work? [CLOSED]. Its answer was posted on 2023-03-30 19:29:01 by MaleficentMaestro.

Other Notes

The question and answer columns have an endogenous HTML schema that has not been transformed into Markdown. For instance, in question id 129668:

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<p>I was trying to remove the HopperBin in user's inventory using the following script:</p>
<pre class="brush: lua">game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
    for i,v in pairs(player.Backpack:GetChildren())
        if v:IsA("HopperBin") then
            v:Destroy()
        end
    end
end)
</pre>
<p>Instead of removing, it does nothing.
Any help would be great!</p>

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<p>1st of all, you should try it when the <strong>Character</strong> is added. Tools and such do not go straight to the backpack, it <strong>waits until the character is added and then adds tools to the backpack</strong>.</p>
<p>2nd of all, I wouldn't use HopperBins to begin with, as they're <strong>deprecated</strong> (use tools).</p>

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