api to get uid from profile URL on facebook

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Is there a way (using API) to get users uid from the profile URL in facebook?

This question needs to be reviewed again as username queries were deprecated — Seif El-Din Sweilam, Jun 24 '20 at 16:01

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '11 at 03:03

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The REST api has been deprecated.

The proper way to do this is to pass the profile name to the graph api

see: Facebook ID from URL

answered Sep 09 '11 at 03:03

Ryan White

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '11 at 03:12

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You can call the graph directly as such: https://graph.facebook.com/username where username is the username you want to lookup.

answered Sep 09 '11 at 03:12

Francis Pelland

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Still working, but now it needs an access token to read the resource. See more at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/using-graph-api/?locale=en_US. – Duong Nguyen Oct 25 '16 at 03:44
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This has been depreciated. – Hideya Nov 30 '16 at 19:42

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 28 '15 at 09:01

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As of today(28th July 2015), I found a different way to find Facebook user's numeric id from profile url (or username).

As you all will be knowing the profile url syntax is https://www.facebook.com/[username]

So just browse to profile url, right click to view source and search for string "uid":. You will get numeric id next to it.

answered Jul 28 '15 at 09:01

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Waste Solution! Needed a more generic code wise solution – user3681970 May 13 '16 at 13:08

score -2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 25 '10 at 16:38

Use Users.getInfo, which returns an array of user info, such as first_name, last_name, and uid. Use this call to get user data that you intend to display to other users (of your application, for example). If you need some basic information about a user for analytics purposes, call users.getStandardInfo instead.

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