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Facebook username ID

Resolve a Facebook vanity name to its numeric id.

Turns a vanity name into the numeric id that the other Facebook endpoints accept. Worth calling once and caching, since the numeric id never changes and passing it saves a lookup on every later call.

POST
/v1/scrapers/facebook-username-id

Authorization

ApiKeyAuth
X-API-Key<token>

Your API key. Sent on every request.

In: header

Request Body

application/json

TypeScript Definitions

Use the request body type in TypeScript.

Response Body

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

curl -X POST "https://example.com/v1/scrapers/facebook-username-id" \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "identifier": "martin.garrix"  }'
{  "request_id": "req_8f2c1d94e7b0",  "success": true,  "status": {    "code": "OK",    "message": "Scrape completed.",    "retryable": false  },  "data": {    "data": {      "numeric_id": "275648462478015"    }  },  "error": null,  "meta": {    "client_id": "client_abc123",    "scraper": "facebook-username-id",    "billable": true,    "duration_ms": 8623  }}