Use findmyfbid.com to get facebook ids from URLs

facebook_url_to_id.rb

require 'selenium-webdriver'

module ScrapeTools
  def self.connect(base_url)
    loop do

      # proxy
      proxy = ProxyServer.get_round_robin # get a proxy that hasent been used lately
      puts "[ScrapeTools] trying proxy: #{proxy.as_string}"

      # profile
      profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
      profile.proxy = Selenium::WebDriver::Proxy.new(ssl: proxy.as_string)

      # options
      options = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Options.new(args: ['-headless'])
      options.profile = profile

      # desired_capabilities
      caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.firefox
      caps['acceptInsecureCerts'] = true

      # driver
      driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox, options: options, desired_capabilities: caps
      driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 5
      driver.manage.timeouts.script_timeout = 30
      driver.manage.timeouts.page_load = 30

      begin
        driver.get(base_url)
        puts "[ScrapeTools] loaded: #{base_url}"

        return driver
      rescue => e
        puts "[ScrapeTools] error: #{e.message}"
      ensure
        proxy.update_column(:last_used_at, Time.now)
      end
    end

  end
end

module FacebookIdResolver
  def self.get_facebook_id_for_url(facebook_profile_url)
    driver = ScrapeTools.connect('https://findmyfbid.com/')

    driver.find_element(css: 'form input.input-lg').send_keys(facebook_profile_url)
    driver.find_element(css: 'form input.btn-primary').click

    wait = Selenium::WebDriver::Wait.new(:timeout => 10)
    wait.until { driver.find_element(css: 'h1').text == "Success!" }

    facebook_id = driver.find_element(css: '#success-wrap code').text

    driver.quit

    return facebook_id
  end
end