getFacebookId.js

This module is the simplest implementation for retrieving facebook id by username.

Preface

Since the API of Facebook removed support for look up of id by username, it became quite inconvenient when our app requires that functionality. So I have created this simple interface for doing that.

Install

Local

> npm install --save get-facebook-id

Global (useful for command line interface)

> npm install -g get-facebook-id

Command line interface

get-facebook-ids/get-fb-ids could be called to retrieve an id given username.

For example:

> get-facebook-ids ycm.jason
1311577170

Multiple ids could be fetch at once:

> get-fb-ids ycm.jason someotheruser nosuchuser
1311577170
1234567
`nosuchuser` not found

Using the API

The module exports a function that takes in a username and callback.

getFacebookIds = require('get-facebook-id');

getFacebookIds('ycm.jason', function(ids) {
  // If user is not found, id would be `false`
  console.log(id[0]);
});

Multiple ids:

getFacebookIds = require('get-facebook-id');

getFacebookIds('ycm.jason someotheruser nosuchuser', function(ids) {
  // If user is not found, id would be `false`
  console.log(ids);
});

The result of the above script would be [1311577170, 1234567, false].

License

ISC