--- title: "Facebook Instant Games Leaderboards" subtitle: "Part 5 - Getting the Scores" date: 2018-11-06T00:00:00.000Z url: https://phaser.io/tutorials/facebook-instant-games-leaderboards/part5 site: Phaser - https://phaser.io copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved. --- > This page is about the open-source Phaser framework, for writing a game's code by hand. To make a game with AI, use Phaser AE (https://phaser.io/): the desk's tools work with Web MCP, and the CLI works with your own coding agent. See "For AI agents: Phaser AE" at the end of this page. # Facebook Instant Games Leaderboards *Part 5 - Getting the Scores* We've covered creating a Leaderboard and saving a score to it. Now it's time to get the entries in a leaderboard, ready for displaying them in our game. When you create a Leaderboard instance it will automatically populate the `entryCount` property. This contains the total number of entries in your leaderboard. To retrieve the scores you need to call the `getScores` method on the Leaderboard instance. First, we create our leaderboard instance, then we can get the scores from it: ``` this.facebook.on('getleaderboard', function (leaderboard) { this.leaderboard = leaderboard; this.leaderboard.on('getscores', function (scores) { console.log(scores); }, this); this.leaderboard.getScores(); }, this); this.facebook.getLeaderboard('globalscores'); ``` In the above code we create a handler for the `getleaderboard` event. When this handler is invoked we can create store the leaderboard instance locally, and call `getScores` on it. Calling that will, in turn, invoke the `getscores` event handler, upon which we can finally inspect the scores. The event is passed an array of `LeaderboardScore` objects. You saw these in the previous part of this tutorial. They are stored in the array in rank order: ``` 0: { score: 2650 scoreFormatted: 2650 timestamp: 1542029852 rank: 1 data: playerName: Richard playerPhotoURL: https://platform-lookaside.fbsbx.com/platform/instantgames/profile_pic.jpg?igpid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&height=256&width=256&ext=XXXXXXXXXX&hash=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX playerID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX }, 1: { score: 2250 scoreFormatted: 2250 timestamp: 1542029342 rank: 2 data: playerName: Akira playerPhotoURL: https://platform-lookaside.fbsbx.com/platform/instantgames/profile_pic.jpg?igpid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&height=256&width=256&ext=XXXXXXXXXX&hash=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX playerID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX }, 2: { score: 1123 scoreFormatted: 1123 timestamp: 1565028572 rank: 3 data: playerName: Hashi playerPhotoURL: https://platform-lookaside.fbsbx.com/platform/instantgames/profile_pic.jpg?igpid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&height=256&width=256&ext=XXXXXXXXXX&hash=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX playerID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX } ``` You can iterate through the `scores` array and display the results as required in your game. How you do this will depend entirely on your game style. You may only care about the player's name and score. You may wish to use the URL of the player photo to display their photo next to their high score. Whatever you wish to do, this is the array of data you do it with. ![Parsed data](leaderboard.png) ### Score Offset The `getScores` method accepts two arguments. The first is the number of leaderboard entries to return. There is an API maximum of 100. If you call the method with no arguments, it will default to 10. The second argument is the offset. This is the offset from the top of the leaderboard to fetch from. Say that your leaderboard had 80 scores in it. Your game displays 10 scores at a time. You show the first list of scores, then they click 'Next' to view the second set - now you need to call `getScores` again, but this time you pass in 10 as the offset value, because you want to start getting scores from rank 11 onwards: ``` this.leaderboard.getScores(10, 10); ``` And for the next 10: ``` this.leaderboard.getScores(10, 20); ``` The offset effectively allows you to handle pagination on your leaderboard. Again, how you use this will depend on the style of your leaderboard in-game. If you've got a vertically scrolling list of scores, then you could get 100 scores back, and as the player starts to scroll down once they hit a certain distance, you could make an API call for the next 100 and add them to a local array used to display them in-game. You have to be careful about the network rate limit. If you try and perform too many leaderboard requests it's entirely possible the API call will throw a `RATE_LIMITED` error and not return anything. 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