how to get post_id of a Facebook post (programmatically) - facebook

Question

How to get post_id of a Facebook post programmatically, for example, I see a post on my wall, what is the best way to get its post_id programmatically.
thanks Gurus.

Answer 1

This is obviously extremely difficult to due since the nature of facebook's feed and the framework it uses (reactjs). They do not want you to get post_ids and they do not want you to mimic their service. The most you'll get is id's like r.2.15, etc, which will mean nothing to you.

Answer 2

See, whenever you post a comment (using Graph API), you get the post_id in return.
But if you want the post id of a feed that was not published using Graph API, you can do-
get all the feeds with \GET /user-id/feed You'll get message, description, id and other details
check for for your post and get the id

Answer 3

You can get the post ids using graph api. If you have a valid access token you can try this below code to get the post ids. Here we are using page /feed to get the posts. you can use page /posts to get only page posts.
$fb_page = ''; //your page name
$access_token = ''; //your access token
$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.2/".$fb_page.'/feed?access_token='.$access_token;
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$result = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
$details = json_decode($result,true);
$posts = $details['data'];
foreach ($posts as $post)
{
echo "<p>".$post['id']."</p>";
}