Rolling Dice from inside an API script

Hi all.  I am curios if there is a way to access Roll20 dice roller from inside an API script, or do I need to write my own random function. What I am planning to do is to roll a specific dice formula and save the result to a variable, so that I can use this in follow up calculations.

There is a synchronous  randomInteger()  function which you can use – documentation in the wiki –, which will just give you a random number. If you need the full power of the dice roller, you can use sendChat() with a callback and parse the message object you receive, but this is asynchronous, so it needs a bit more care to deal with (it also has some unaddressed bugs you may or may not run into).

Thank you for the information ! I think I will be able to work from here.

Doesn't randomInteger use the same rng as the dice roller? I thought I read it was the same system, put in a function for scripting. I may be misremembering.

G G said: Doesn't randomInteger use the same rng as the dice roller? I thought I read it was the same system, put in a function for scripting. I may be misremembering. I think so, but it just gives you a random integer, no roll expressions or anything like that, so you would have to build your own function to interpret the random number.

I see what you meant now. That makes sense.