🆔 Facebook URL → ID Plus

Convert public Facebook URLs into stable numeric IDs — and resolve numeric IDs back into canonical URLs. This Facebook ID scraper / Facebook URL to ID converter takes pages, groups, posts, videos, reels, and profile links and returns clean, typed columns (name, username, canonical URL, category, verified status, follower/like counts, member counts, profile picture, ad-library ID, and post author) instead of raw JSON blobs.

Ideal for CRMs, ad tooling, analytics dashboards, social-media monitoring, and research pipelines that need a reliable Facebook link → ID mapping.

✨ What it does

• URL → numeric ID for public Pages, Groups, Posts / Videos / Reels / Watch / Story links, and Profiles.
• Reverse mode: numeric ID → canonical URL — a differentiator most converters don't offer. Give it 100064368354094 and get back the canonical page URL and name.
• Clean typed columns (not stringified JSON): entityName, username, canonicalUrl, category, isVerified, followerCount, likeCount, memberCount, joinState, profilePictureUrl, adLibraryId, authorName, authorId, createdAt.
• Broad input handling: full URLs, @handle, bare vanity (NintendoAmerica), profile.php?id=, permalink.php, story.php, /reel/, /watch, fb.me, m.facebook.com, and l.facebook.com redirect wrappers.
• No fabricated data: a link that cannot be resolved to a genuine numeric ID is skipped — never emitted with a guessed or null ID, and never charged.

📥 Input

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/NintendoAmerica",
    "https://www.facebook.com/groups/9gag",
    "https://www.facebook.com/reel/1234567890",
    "100064368354094"
  ],
  "reverseMode": true,
  "entityTypes": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

📤 Output

Each resolved input produces one flat, typed row. Example (page):

{
  "facebookUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NintendoAmerica",
  "facebookId": "100064368354094",
  "resolved": true,
  "type": "page",
  "entityName": "Nintendo of America",
  "username": "NintendoAmerica",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://www.facebook.com/NintendoAmerica",
  "category": null,
  "isVerified": true,
  "followerCount": 5338483,
  "likeCount": 5338483,
  "memberCount": null,
  "joinState": null,
  "adLibraryId": "119240841493711",
  "profilePictureUrl": "https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/...",
  "authorName": null,
  "authorId": null,
  "createdAt": null,
  "postId": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-02T12:00:00Z"
}

Groups add memberCount + joinState; posts add authorName, authorId, createdAt, and postId (the pfbid token) alongside the numeric facebookId (the story ID).

🧠 Notes & limits

• Works on publicly reachable Facebook content only; no login or private data.
• Follower/like/member counts are parsed from Facebook's public Open Graph metadata and may be absent for some entities — in that case the field is null, never faked.
• Resolution depends on Facebook's anti-bot behaviour. Residential proxy gives the best success rate; the run log reports the real resolution rate.

⚖️ Legal

Only public, login-free data is accessed. You are responsible for complying with Facebook's terms and applicable laws when using the results.