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Created December 10, 2017 14:42
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Convert Facebook username to Profile id.
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id.py
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
user = input('Enter user name: ')
url = 'https://www.facebook.com/'+ user
resp = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(resp.text, 'lxml')
mylink = soup.find_all('meta')
id = mylink[7].attrs['content'][13:]
print(id)
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