FAQ

Why pyrobloxbot?

pyrobloxbot was born out of necessity (in this case, beating my cousin on Blox Fruits)

I quickly realized that making Roblox bots got annoying due to needing to manage multiple libraries for inputs, image recognition and window handling.

What started as a personal tool for making my own bots quickly grew into a feature-rich library. I built pyrobloxbot to be the toolkit I whished I had when I started.

“Windowless” / “Headless” bots

pyrobloxbot does not enable you to make truly headless Roblox bots in the traditional sense.

This is a consequence of the fundamental way pyrobloxbot sends inputs. Because the bot interacts with Roblox by “faking” keyboard inputs, the Roblox window must at some point be in focus for the inputs to register.

Making truly headless Roblox bots is an incredibly complex task.

The closest you might be able to get is by using the restore_focus_after_action option or the pyrobloxbot.restore_focus decorator. You might also pair these tools with minimizing the Roblox window, to make it never actually visible on screen, but it will still be active, and any keys you hit on your keyboard will be sent to Roblox.

pywintypes.error: (0, ‘SetForegroundWindow’, ‘No error message is available’)

Sometimes, when trying to put Roblox in focus, you might get the following error message:

pywintypes.error: (0, 'SetForegroundWindow', 'No error message is available')

This error is thrown by Windows when it for any reason recognizes a window can be activated, but it refuses to, and doesn’t provide a reason.

This can mostly be fixed by pressing the alt key before activating the window (which pyrobloxbot already does)

However, you’ll still get this error if a “special” window is open when pyrobloxbot tries putting Roblox in focus, like the Windows menu, or during alt tab.

Why only use the keyboard?

Often when making an automation script, using the mouse is the most finicky part. This is because it usually involves a lot of “magic numbers”, and tends to be more unreliable that using the keyboard in general.

It also can lead to worse consequences if for whatever reason there’s a mistake on your bot, because pyrobloxbot can ensure that it’s keyboard inputs only ever get sent to Roblox, but not mouse inputs.

As such, I made the decision to only use the keyboard when making my bots, and that later transferred over to pyrobloxbot.

This doesn’t mean that you can’t use the mouse in your bots, or even that its a bad idea. Sometimes it really is the only way to bot something, and I myself have resorted to using the mouse for some bots.

In fact, pyrobloxbot even provides methods for left and right clicking the mouse.