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How do I get Facebook id

I am building a rss based web-plugin to collect feeds from social media. At the moment the user have to enter the Facebook Id manually that they want to get the feed from.

I found this site http://findmyfacebookid.com/ which does exactly what I want. If I can integrate something similar in my configuration part of the plugin it would be so much smoother user experience.

All help is appreciated.

Solution

  • You can use an ajax call to get a user's facebook id :

    var name = 'zuck';
$.getJSON('https://graph.facebook.com/' + name, {
  format: "json"
}).done(function(data) {
  $('#output').html(data.id); // FB Id of his founder
})
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
Id of Mark Zuckerberg :
<div id="output"></div>