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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.

The example response below is real output from this endpoint, not an illustration. Long lists and long strings are shortened to keep the page readable, and each place that happens is marked. This example took 9.1s.

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  }}