DataScope

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A Modern DataStore Editor for Roblox Studio

Features

Core Features

• Visual DataStore Management - Browse and edit DataStores with a clean GUI
• Multiple DataStore Types - Support for Normal, Ordered, and Global DataStores
• Key Browsing - List, search, and filter keys with pagination
• Full CRUD Operations - Create, read, update, and delete keys
• Version History - Browse historical versions of keys
• Undo/Redo - 64-action undo/redo stack
• Multiple View Modes - Tree view and Code view for data editing
• Connection History - Quick access to recent DataStore connections with pinning
• Theme Support - Studio, Dark, and Light themes with accent colors
• Settings Persistence - Your preferences are saved between sessions

New Features

• 🔍 Search Bar in Key Editor - Search within your data with multiple modes:

  • All - Search both keys and values
  • Content - Match content directly (searches serialized form)
  • Keys - Search only key names
  • Values - Search only values
  • Type - Search by data type (string, number, boolean, array, object, null, buffer)
  • .* Regex toggle - Independent toggle that enables Lua pattern matching in any mode
  • 🕵️ Field History Scanner - Track when a specific field in a player's data changed over time. Type a field path (e.g. coins or inventory.sword) into the search bar at the top of the version history panel, and it scans through every saved version to find exactly where that value changed — showing before and after for each change, with a button to open a full diff. Loads additional pages on demand via a "Scan more" button.

• 🪝 Hook System - Compression/decompression hooks for DataStore values:

  • JSON String detection and decoding
  • Base64 buffer handling
  • Compressed data markers (LZ4/ZLIB)
  • MessagePack format detection
  • ProfileService data format
  • Custom hooks - Register your own compression/serialization hooks

Architecture

• Vide - Reactive UI library for clean, declarative components
• Functional Programming - Pure functions, immutable state, composition

Installation

From Asset Store

https://create.roblox.com/store/asset/87717019449403/DataScope

Using Wally

[dependencies]
DataScope = "pyseph/datascope@1.3.0"

Manual Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Run wally install to get dependencies
3. Use Rojo to sync or build the plugin

Project Structure

src/
├── main.server.luau       # Plugin entry point
├── core/
│   ├── Types.luau         # Type definitions
│   └── Store.luau         # Reactive state management
├── datastore/
│   └── Operations.luau    # DataStore operations
├── hooks/
│   ├── HookManager.luau   # Hook registration and execution
│   └── BuiltInHooks.luau  # Default compression hooks
├── ui/
│   ├── App.luau           # Main app component
│   ├── Theme.luau         # Theme system
│   ├── components/        # Reusable UI components
│   │   ├── Button.luau
│   │   ├── TextInput.luau
│   │   ├── SearchBar.luau # Search with mode selection
│   │   ├── TreeView.luau  # Data visualization
│   │   ├── Tabs.luau
│   │   ├── Modal.luau
│   │   ├── Toast.luau
│   │   └── Select.luau
│   └── views/             # Application views
│       ├── ConnectView.luau
│       ├── BrowseView.luau
│       ├── EditKeyView.luau
│       ├── VersionsView.luau
│       └── SettingsView.luau
├── utils/
│   ├── Functional.luau    # FP utilities (map, filter, reduce, etc.)
│   ├── PatternMatcher.luau # Optimized search engine (~3-4x faster than native regex)
│   └── JSON.luau          # JSON utilities
└── settings/
    └── Settings.luau      # Settings persistence

Custom Hooks

You can register custom compression/decompression hooks for your data formats:

local HookManager = require(path.to.HookManager)

HookManager.register({
    name = "MyCustomFormat",
    description = "Handle my custom data format",
    priority = 25, -- Higher priority runs first

    -- Called to check if this hook can handle the data
    canHandle = function(data, context)
        return type(data) == "string" and string.sub(data, 1, 4) == "MYF:"
    end,

    -- Transform data for display in editor
    decompress = function(data, context)
        -- Your decompression logic
        return decompressedData
    end,

    -- Transform data back for saving
    compress = function(data, context)
        -- Your compression logic
        return compressedData
    end,
})

Search Modes

The search bar supports multiple modes for finding data:

Mode	Description	Example
All	Search keys and values	player matches key "playerName" and value "player1"
Content	Direct content matching	gold finds any occurrence in serialized data
Keys	Only search key names	inventory finds keys containing "inventory"
Values	Only search values	100 finds values containing "100"
Type	Search by data type	array finds all arrays

Enable the .* toggle to use Lua pattern matching in any of the above modes. For example, ^player%d+ in Keys mode finds keys starting with "player" followed by digits.

Credits

• Original DataScope concept by pinehappi
• Rewritten using Vide by centau

License

GPL-3.0