I am trying to get the fbid of our user's profile to generate the fb://page/fbid
below I have attached my function findFacebookId() to get the fbid and it works for all FB page URLs except the URL is in capital form
for example
https://www.facebook.com/userpage - findFacebookId() return the fbId for this url
https://www.facebook.com/UserPage - findFacebookId() will not work for this url
Note: on my local terminal it do not ask to login but when I run this function on my ubuntu server it asks to log in
findFacebookId: (name,cb) => {
const curl = new (require('curl-request'))();
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
let url = `https://www.facebook.com/${name}`;
curl.setHeaders([
'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36'
]).get(url)
.then(({ statusCode, body, headers }) => {
var regularExpresionMatch = /fb:\/\/(group|page|profile)\/(\d{1,})/gi;
const matches = body.match(regularExpresionMatch)
const oldmatches = body.match(/entity_id":"\d*/i);
if (matches && matches.length > 0) {
const id = matches[0];
cb(null,id);
return;
} else {
cb(true)
}
})
.catch((e) => {
cb(e);
});
});
}