Facebook user url by id

Question

I have a list of FB ids, is there a canon way of constructing their FB url without a graph query?

For example, I have ids 3, 4, 5, and i want the Facebook URL for them without using the graph api and save them down

Answer 1

UPDATE 2: This information is no more given by facebook. There is an official announcement for the behavior change (https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/19/facebook-login-changes-address-abuse/) but none for its alternative.

Yes, Just use this link and append your ID to the id parameter:

https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=<UID> 

So for example:

https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=4 

Will redirect you automatically to https://www.facebook.com/zuck Which is Mark Zuckerberg's profile.

If you want to do this for all your ids, then you can do it using a loop.

If you'd like, I can provide you with a snippet.

UPDATE: Alternatively, You can also do this:

https://facebook.com/<UID> 

So that would be: https://facebook.com/4 which would automatically redirect to Zuck!