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There are several solutions proposed, but as is stated here (https://stackoverflow.com/a/26839926/1893249 ) , it seems to be impossible.

In the FB Graph API explorer( https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer ), "/v2.4/cnn" returns the following, which is promising, 

{
  "name": "CNN",
  "id": "5550296508"
}

until you put in "/v2.4/priscilla" and it returns:

{
  "error": {
    "message": "(#803) Cannot query users by their username (priscilla)",
    "type": "OAuthException",
    "code": 803
  }
}

Likewise, this approach looks promising "/v2.4/?ids=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/" until you put in "/v2.4/?ids=https://www.facebook.com/priscilla" and it just returns the not-so-helpful:

{
  "https://www.facebook.com/priscilla": {
    "id": "https://www.facebook.com/priscilla"
  }
}

But if it's impossible, than how is it done here? http://findmyfbid.com/ with the URL, https://www.facebook.com/priscilla

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  • _“than how is it done here?”_ – by them scraping the FB page, for which they probably don’t have permission to do so. – CBroe Aug 06 '15 at 07:55
  • More information here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/30886783/405525 – bangdel Aug 09 '15 at 10:34

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Scrapping the Facebook page Does the trick, but I'doubt if it's legal

curl -v https://www.facebook.com/USERNAME 2>&1 | 
grep -o 'userID.*]' | head -n1 | cut -c 10-24
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