Manually get a Facebook ID

Facebook changes the ways to get ID numbers in the URL periodically, although they are often still visible in certain page URLs. The best way to consistently get an ID manually is via the source code. Note that you do not have to be logged in to get the FBID.

On the main page of any user profile, right click on unused space. Use ctrl+U (command+option+U on OSX) or in the right click menu, choose “View Page Source”.

In the following page of HTML, use ctrl+F (command+F on OSX) and open a search tool. Search for entity_id and the following number will be the Facebook ID number of the user, group or page.

*In the newest interface, search for:

User pages: userid

Business pages: pageid

Event pages: eventid

Groups: groupid

Note that in some cases the group or user page ID will be in the original URL. For a "place”, it will always be in the URL.