How to extract Facebook group member/friend IDs

An easy way to run a targeted ad campaign on Facebook:

1. Extract user IDs from your theme groups and/or your friends list.


2. With Facebook Ads Manager you can create a Custom Audience and load a list of Facebook user IDs into it.


3. Use targeting on the created Custom Audience.

In addition, you can use users' email addresses and phone numbers as Custom Audience IDs.

After the latest updates in the Graph API, the capabilities of Facebook parsing programs have decreased significantly. However, in LetsExtract Email Studio this feature still works.

For your safety we recommend not to use your main Facebook account in LetsExtract. Also, if you get the 101 Invalid Application ID error or 400 error when logging into your account, it means that Facebook API is not available in your country. Create a new account, and specify that you are located in the USA.

Unlike similar online services, LetsExtract has no limits on the number of IDs that can be found and besides there are no extra charges.

Extract Facebook group member IDs:

1. Launch LetsExtract Email Studio, switch to Facebook Extractor mode, and log into your Facebook account in the built-in browser.




2. Go to the group you're interested in, then go to the "Members tab" and click "Scroll Down" to download all the group members. Wait for a while while the page scrolls down. To stop scrolling, click “Stop”.




3. After that, click the "Extract Members" button. Make sure the "Only with Email" and "Only with Phone" checkboxes are not selected.


4. After LetsExtract completes the search, the "Results tab" will give you a list of uIDs:




5. Next, you can export the results to CSV or Excel to later import them into Facebook Ads Manager.

 

Extract your friends' Facebook IDs:

It is performed similarly to extracting group members, except the 2nd step - instead of going to the group page, go to the “Friends section” of your Facebook account.