如何检查facebook id是否有效[关闭]

Question

I have a script which will generate random numbers like 1000089838938 but I need a solution to check if the generated number is associated with a valid facebook account.

Solution I am looking for should be in PHP.

Thanks.

Answer 1

One solution is to check ID after generating via Graph API.

http://graph.facebook.com/[ID]

whatever ID is generated, put that at end of URL and check response received. Like if ID is 1303834107

you can check @ http://graph.facebook.com/1303834107

If it's correct, response will be something like:

{
  "id": "1303834107",
  "name": "John Flake",
  "first_name": "John",
  "last_name": "Flake",
  "link": "https://www.facebook.com/john.flake",
  "username": "john.flake",
  "gender": "male",
  "locale": "en_US"
}

or if that ID is invalid, you will get something like:

{
 "error": 
  {
  "message": "Unsupported get request.",
  "type": "GraphMethodException",
  "code": 100
  }
}

Based on response, you can validate that ID.

Use php curl to call each time the API URL when ID is generated to check the response.