Just curious

Probably a lot, as the minimum user requirement is 3 letters.

There are 46656 combinations of the English alphabet and numbers 0-9. So since 3 letter usernames are rare on Scratch, there might be a very great chance that there's some left.
I've researched btw

100% that there are a some left.

I've been thinking of a way to check this but I can't find a way to check all 46 000 usernames through code. I could try and do it through Snap! but getting the url block to work seems like a hassle…

Probably hundreds, or even thousands. This is because Scratch is not that popular (unlike Roblox which ran out of 3 and 4 letter usernames) and not many people take 3 letter usernames.

this snap! project can help you, just download the xml file and import it into snap.
or you could use this
its broken now
nodejs wont work

7,563 last time I checked, but that was a while ago, it's a hassle to brute force every username

Prime689 wrote:

There are 46656 combinations of the English alphabet and numbers 0-9.

there's - and _ too

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

7,563 last time I checked, but that was a while ago, it's a hastle to brute force every username

Prime689 wrote:

There are 46656 combinations of the English alphabet and numbers 0-9.

there's - and _ too

Estimation

Prime689 wrote:

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

7,563 last time I checked, but that was a while ago, it's a hastle to brute force every username

Prime689 wrote:

There are 46656 combinations of the English alphabet and numbers 0-9.

there's - and _ too

Estimation

¿?

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

7,563 last time I checked

7,404 now

fdreerf wrote:

I could try and do it through Snap!

You can do it through Roblox too, as they have HTTP requests. Don't spam it, or the Scratch Team will be like “OUR SITE IS DOWN, WE MUST BAN ROBLOX HTTP REQUESTS”

I shall upload the code to github if anybody cares to try (I haven't made it yet), it won't be very fast because of the limits Roblox has and I don't want to crash Scratch.

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

Prime689 wrote:

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

7,563 last time I checked, but that was a while ago, it's a hastle to brute force every username

Prime689 wrote:

There are 46656 combinations of the English alphabet and numbers 0-9.

there's - and _ too

Estimation

¿?

Why sarcasm

bruh estimation of usage

Basic88 wrote:

I shall upload the code to github if anybody cares to try (I haven't made it yet), it won't be very fast because of the limits Roblox has and I don't want to crash Scratch.

I'd rather not go through all the usernames overnight, or use Lua as it smells weird, so I'll try and find how to do this in a faster language.

fdreerf wrote:

Basic88 wrote:

I shall upload the code to github if anybody cares to try (I haven't made it yet), it won't be very fast because of the limits Roblox has and I don't want to crash Scratch.

I'd rather not go through all the usernames overnight, or use Lua as it smells weird, so I'll try and find how to do this in a faster language.

An important note is that no matter how fast your language is, the Scratch API is limited to 10 requests per second (any faster and you'll start getting 429 errors), so bruteforcing all of the usernames will take about an hour and a half at the minimum.

However, if you keep a list of the available ones, then the next time you check, you can go through only the ones on that list, so it won't take nearly as long.

it's also good to note that some usernames are unobtainable, so even if all the obtainable usernames are taken, there will still be some usernames that no-one can get

64lu wrote:

it's also good to note that some usernames are unobtainable, so even if all the obtainable usernames are taken, there will still be some usernames that no-one can get

What do you mean? Like usernames with personal info?

wangat wrote:

64lu wrote:

it's also good to note that some usernames are unobtainable, so even if all the obtainable usernames are taken, there will still be some usernames that no-one can get

What do you mean? Like usernames with personal info?

like a swear

Flowermanvista wrote:

fdreerf wrote:

Basic88 wrote:

I shall upload the code to github if anybody cares to try (I haven't made it yet), it won't be very fast because of the limits Roblox has and I don't want to crash Scratch.

I'd rather not go through all the usernames overnight, or use Lua as it smells weird, so I'll try and find how to do this in a faster language.

An important note is that no matter how fast your language is, the Scratch API is limited to 10 requests per second (any faster and you'll start getting 429 errors), so bruteforcing all of the usernames will take about an hour and a half at the minimum.

I know; an hour is just much than five or higher.

9gr wrote:

this snap! project can help you, just download the xml file and import it into snap.
or you could use this

TYSM
I am soooooo honered to be a 3 letter userame :DDDDDDDDDD
If you create a 3 letter username then only take ONE. (My real user is cat_tap)
As for this, I won't go spreading the news of that, we don't want all the 3 letter usernames taken XD.
So anyway, THANKYOU! <3
That was VERY helpful.
As for the amount left, according to that, there is 49 left. 0.0