Finding Your Facebook ID
Written by Saran on March 25, 2013, Updated October 12, 2015Find You Facebook ID & More
I have been playing with Facebook graph urls and I came up with a decent example below, Just enter Facebook profile URL of any user to get fetch their ID and more.
PHP Tutorial
There are few Facebook user information (id, name, gender,picture etc.) that do not require any permission or SDKs, we can simply point URL to graph.facebook.com and fetch these data. Here's a simple Facebook Graph URL that shows my ID and Name : https://graph.facebook.com/sarancham?fields=id,nameThis URL will reveals more about me : https://graph.facebook.com/sarancham?fields=id,name,picture,locale,gender,usernameSo, simply use PHP cURL to fetch these datas and use them in our scripts :PHP
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$result = get_data('https://graph.facebook.com/sarancham?fields=id,name');
echo 'Hi '.$result->name.', Your Facebook ID is : '.$result->id;
function get_data($json_url)
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $json_url);
$json_data = curl_exec($ch);
return json_decode($json_data);
curl_close($ch);
}
