Question

I would like to retrieve a the facebook id from a link. What I would like to know is if I’ve got all the possible cases or/and if I can have a standard way to do it ex :

If have http://www.facebook.com/pages/ExchangeMyRooms/301768493253094
I can retrieve the id from the URL

If I have http://www.facebook.com/babelverse I do :
https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=babelverse
and I get the id

If I have http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/ I do : https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/
and I get the id

The results should look like that :

{
"babelverse": {
  "id": "177626422254171",
  "name": "Babelverse",
  "picture": "http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/372895_177626422254171_1480242829_s.jpg",
  "link": "http://www.facebook.com/babelverse",
  "likes": 957,
  ...

Is there a way to do a query like

SELECT id FROM idontknow WHERE link=mylink

Thank you very much

Answer 1

So you are just looking for the FQL equivalent of the Graph API call …?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/object_url/