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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\-\.]*)/ |
(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|mobile\.|touch\.|mbasic\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?!$)(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/|pg\/)?(?:photo\.php\?fbid=)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(?:\/)?(?:profile\.php\?id=)?([^\/?&\s]*)(?:\/|&|\?)?.*
This will match /pg/ URL as weel
https://m.facebook.com/pg/DwayneTheRockJohnsonFanClub/photos/
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There's also mobile.facebook.com, so here's the new regex:
^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.|m\.|mobile\.|touch\.|mbasic\.)?(?:facebook\.com|fb(?:\.me|\.com))\/(?!$)(?:(?:\w)*#!\/)?(?:pages\/)?(?:photo\.php\?fbid=)?(?:[\w\-]*\/)*?(?:\/)?(?:profile\.php\?id=)?([^\/?&\s]*)(?:\/|&|\?)?.*$Which can match stuff like:
https://mobile.facebook.com/BMW/