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Regex to get the Facebook Page ID from a given URL
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# Matches patterns such as:
# https://www.facebook.com/my_page_id => my_page_id
# http://www.facebook.com/my_page_id => my_page_id
# http://www.facebook.com/#!/my_page_id => my_page_id
# http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paris-France/Vanity-Url/123456?v=app_555 => 123456
# http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vanity-Url/45678 => 45678
# http://www.facebook.com/#!/page_with_1_number => page_with_1_number
# http://www.facebook.com/bounce_page#!/pages/Vanity-Url/45678 => 45678
# http://www.facebook.com/bounce_page#!/my_page_id?v=app_166292090072334 => my_page_id
# http://www.facebook.com/my.page.is.great => my.page.is.great
/(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?facebook\.com\/(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*([\w\-\.]*)/
@michikono

michikono commented Jul 7, 2013

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Doesn't work for paths with a trailing slash. Try adding a check for that (added (\/)?).

/(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?facebook\.com\/(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(\/)?([\w\-\.]*)/

To address the UTF-8 comment: \b only does ASCII. To work with UTF-8, you need to define your own word boundaries.

The solution here is probably best to use an inverse character class ("anything that is not a slash or question mark") to find the usernames. This works in this situation since we know the only place special characters would appear is in the username.

@michikono

michikono commented Jul 7, 2013

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Here's my attempt at filtering out other languages.

/(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?facebook\.com\/(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(\/)?([^/?]*)/

Tested it against:

http://www.facebook.com/Φc?ref=hl => [2] = Φc
http://www.facebook.com/Φc/?ref=hl => [2] = Φc
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Φc/1234?ref=hl => [2] = Φc
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Φc/1234/?ref=hl => [2] = Φc

This also includes my forward slash escape code in my previous comment.

@campbell-codes

campbell-codes commented Sep 5, 2014

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Something you can do is two separate regex's to try and find a numeric ID first then on failure find the vanity id.
I've used this pretty basic regex to look for numbers of length 10 or greater:
/(\d{10,})/

then take the result if one is found and if one is not found use the original regex from here. Obviously this might fail if the name of the page is number1234567890 but that is a pretty special case.

I have found this to work for me pretty well but criticism welcome

Example URL:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/GHOST-Caf%C3%A9/627191887397533?fref=ts

@philippeluickx

philippeluickx commented Nov 17, 2015

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Anyone who wants this for Python:

https?://(www.)?facebook.com/(\w_#!/)?(pages/)?(([\w-]_/)*)?(?P<page_id>[\w.-]+)

@nkanaev

nkanaev commented May 22, 2017 •
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Matching fails if url contains closing slash, like https://www.facebook.com/my_page_id/
The regex below is more simpler working solution:

(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?facebook\.com\/(?:.+\/)*([\w\.\-]+)

@badraxas

badraxas commented Aug 10, 2017

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^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|touch\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(\/)?([^/?\s]*)(?:/|&|\?)?.*$
support also m.facebook.com, touch.facebook.com, fb.me, fb.com

example :
https://www.facebook.com/TrollsdeGeek/videos/1612020065488125/
https://www.facebook.com/Φc?ref=hl
http://m.facebook.com/Φc?ref=hl
http://www.facebook.com/Φc/?ref=hl
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Φc/1234?ref=hl
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Φc/1234/?ref=hl
http://www.facebook.com/mypageusername?ref=hl
http://touch.facebook.com/mypageusername?ref=hl
https://www.facebook.com/mypageusername?ref=hl
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vanity-Url/12345678?ref=hl
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vanity-Url/12345678?ref=hl
http://www.facebook.com/pages/%CE%A4%CE%91-%CE%A6%CE%A1%CE%9F%CE%A5%CE%A4%CE%91-%CE%A4%CE%9F%CE%A5-%CE%94%CE%91%CE%A3%CE%9F%CE%A5%CE%A3/145298928829093
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ΤΑ-ΦΡΟΥΤΑ-ΤΟΥ-ΔΑΣΟΥΣ/145298928829093
https://www.facebook.com/Babies.Fan.Page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Babies.Fan.Page/121166161229757
https://www.facebook.com/pages/GHOST-Caf%C3%A9/627191887397533?fref=ts

@Raphhh

Raphhh commented Sep 18, 2017 •
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missing https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456789

@lekiend

lekiend commented Dec 6, 2017 •
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@BastienMottier
Just a little mistake. Unescaped slash at the end.
This below works better
^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|touch\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(\/)?([^/?\s]*)(?:\/|&|\?)?.*$

@msdinit

msdinit commented Feb 28, 2018 •
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@Raphhh
this one below also works for profile.php
^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|touch\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(?:\/)?(?:profile\.php\?id=)?([^/?\s]*)(?:\/|&|\?)?.*$

@arielperez82

arielperez82 commented Mar 14, 2018

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@lekiend There was one more missing slash.

Also, this below disallows host URLs ending in a slash with no profile e.g. https://www.facebook.com, http://fb.me, https://m.facebook.com/

^(?:https?://)?(?:www.|m.|touch.)?(?:facebook.com|fb(?:.me|.com))/(?!$)(?:(?:\w)#!/)?(?:pages/)?(?:[\w-]/)?(?:/)?(?:profile.php?id=)?([^\/?\s])(?:/|&|?)?.*$

@musasoftlabx

musasoftlabx commented Jul 9, 2018

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where did u guys know how to write all these?

@ttodua

ttodua commented Sep 16, 2018

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doesnt work for Unicode containing pages, like this:

https://www.facebook.com/საწარმო-SabaDesign-927047470710565/?ref=safrghbeდფწერგ

@hoofdletterj

hoofdletterj commented Nov 24, 2018

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Props for all contributers!!
Everything incorporated above, with just one more forgotten escape character added, gives me this:

/^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|touch\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?!$)(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:photo\.php\?fbid=)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(?:\/)?(?:profile\.php\?id=)?([^\/?\s]*)(?:\/|&|\?)?.*$/

Which works GREAT (yay), except when the url has arguments after the profile.php?id= or fbid= part like these urls:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=114376375296751&fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab
returns 114376375296751&fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab instead of 114376375296751

and

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=114376375296751&set=a.114376371963418.13845.114375165296872&type=1&theater
returns 114376375296751&set=a.114376371963418.13845.114375165296872&type=1&theater

Someone care to snip everything off after the first &?

@ayal

ayal commented Jul 31, 2019

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/^(?:https?://)?(?:www.|m.|touch.)?(?:facebook.com|fb(?:.me|.com))/(?!$)(?:(?:\w)#!/)?(?:pages/)?(?:photo.php?fbid=)?(?:[\w-]/)?(?:/)?(?:profile.php?id=)?([^\/?\&\s])(?:/|&|?)?.*?$/

this should exclude the & as well

@fabriciopirini

fabriciopirini commented Aug 13, 2019

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Ayal's alternative didn't work for me. It worked when I got hoofdletterj's answer and added & before \s (Ayal's partial answer):

/^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|touch\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?!$)(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:photo\.php\?fbid=)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(?:\/)?(?:profile\.php\?id=)?([^\/?&\s]*)(?:\/|&|\?)?.*$/

@WaqasAli853

WaqasAli853 commented Dec 9, 2019

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I want to display the post's images of Facebook on my website by just copy the address of the image is there any regex for that i have use the above regex but it doesn't help me
preg_match_all('/(https?://\S+.(?:jpg|png|gif))+/', $string, $match);
i am using this regex but it display all the other images except Facebook''s images

@alberto98fx

alberto98fx commented Jan 6, 2020

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I updated the regex to match even mbasic:

^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|touch\.|mbasic\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?!$)(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:photo\.php\?fbid=)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(?:\/)?(?:profile\.php\?id=)?([^\/?&\s]*)(?:\/|&|\?)?.*$

It works for urls like:

https://mbasic.facebook.com/BMW/?refid=46&__xts__%5B0%5D=12.%7B%22unit_id_click_type%22%3A%22graph_search_results_item_tapped%22%2C%22click_type%22%3A%22result%22%2C%22module_id%22%3A2%2C%22result_id%22%3A22893372268%2C%22session_id%22%3A%22e4709b011e94ec8207a44ffedd1d2901%22%2C%22module_role%22%3A%22ENTITY_PAGES%22%2C%22unit_id%22%3A%22browse_rl%3Ab2718be4-bbd0-4764-9c31-6908c431daa2%22%2C%22browse_result_type%22%3A%22browse_type_page%22%2C%22unit_id_result_id%22%3A22893372268%2C%22module_result_position%22%3A0%7D

@alberto98fx

alberto98fx commented Jan 6, 2020

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There's also mobile.facebook.com, so here's the new regex:

^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|mobile\.|touch\.|mbasic\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?!$)(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:photo\.php\?fbid=)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(?:\/)?(?:profile\.php\?id=)?([^\/?&\s]*)(?:\/|&|\?)?.*$

Which can match stuff like:

https://mobile.facebook.com/BMW/

@xtvipxtt

xtvipxtt commented Mar 15, 2021

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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100015670091629

@beshoo

beshoo commented Apr 11, 2021 •
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(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|mobile\.|touch\.|mbasic\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?!$)(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/|pg\/)?(?:photo\.php\?fbid=)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(?:\/)?(?:profile\.php\?id=)?([^\/?&\s]*)(?:\/|&|\?)?.*

This will match /pg/ URL as weel
https://m.facebook.com/pg/DwayneTheRockJohnsonFanClub/photos/
...................................................^

@Hlaing567

Hlaing567 commented Mar 6, 2023

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@https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073611427332&mibextid=LQQJ4d

@PAO-KA

PAO-KA commented Jun 24, 2024

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@neilsh https://gist.github.com/marcgg/733592?permalink_comment_id=593353#gistcomment-593353https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100072548973526&mibextid=ZbWKwL

@PAO-KA

PAO-KA commented Jun 24, 2024

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@neilshEl tuyo no capta patrones como`
[](URL ``https://www.google.com/search?q=https+%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fprofile.php+id%3D10005&oq=&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCQgBECMYJxjqAjIHCAAQRRiwATIJCAEQIxgnGOoCMgkIAhAjGCcY6gIyCQgDECMYJxjqAjIJCAQQIxgnGOoCMg8IBRAuGCcYxwEY6gIY0QMyCQgGECMYJxjqAjIJCAcQIxgnGOoCMgkICBAjGCcY6gIyCQgJEEUYOxjCA9IBBi0xajBqN6gCCrACAQ&client=ms-android-americamovil-mx-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

@mohmmdmayyas

mohmmdmayyas commented Aug 23, 2024

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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082069525365&mibextid
=ZbWKwL

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