How to Find Your Facebook Admin ID and Page ID
Where to find your Facebook Page ID and profile ID today, how to give someone admin access to a Page, and whether your site still needs fb:admins.
Key points
- The old graph.facebook.com/username shortcut no longer returns anyone’s ID, so skip any guide that still recommends it.
- Your Page ID is listed in the Page’s transparency information. A profile ID shows in the address bar only when the profile has no username.
- Admin rights are now called Facebook access with full control. You grant them from the Page’s settings or from Meta Business Suite.
- Most websites no longer need an fb:admins tag. Open Graph tags control link previews, and domain verification happens in Business Suite.
What people mean by a Facebook admin ID
When this guide was first written, an “admin ID” usually meant the numeric ID of your personal Facebook account. Site owners pasted it into an fb:admins meta tag so Facebook knew who could moderate comments and see insights for a website. Today the phrase covers three different things, and it helps to know which one you need before you start looking.
- Page ID. The number that identifies a business Page. Ad tools, chat widgets and some integrations ask for it.
- Profile ID. The number behind a personal account. Very few website tasks need it now.
- Admin access. Permission to manage a Page. If someone asks you to “add them as an admin”, this is what they need, not an ID.
Why the old shortcut stopped working
You may still find advice to open graph.facebook.com followed by your username. That no longer returns a person’s ID. Since version 2.0 of the Graph API, Facebook gives each app its own app-scoped ID for a user instead of exposing one public number, so lookups by username stopped working. Any tool or tutorial that relies on that address is out of date.
How to find your Facebook Page ID
Facebook moves its menus around from time to time, but the Page ID has stayed in the same place for a while: the Page’s transparency information.
- Open your Page on Facebook while logged in.
- Go to the Page’s About section and open Page transparency. Depending on your layout, it may be labeled Transparency and privacy.
- Look under Page information. The Page ID is the long number listed there.
How to find your personal profile ID
If your profile has never had a username, the ID is in plain sight. Open your profile and look at the address bar: the URL ends in profile.php?id= followed by a number. That number is your profile ID.
If you have set a username, the URL shows the username instead, and Facebook does not display the number anywhere in its interface. Meta’s own help article on finding your user ID covers the IDs that apps and games see, which differ from one app to the next. In practice that is rarely a problem, because modern website setups don’t ask for a personal profile ID.
How to give someone admin access to a Page
This is usually what people are after when they ask for an admin ID. Facebook’s newer Pages experience replaced the old Admin, Editor and Moderator roles. You now grant Facebook access to a Page, either with full control, which is the equivalent of the old Admin role, or with more limited permissions for people who only need to handle specific tasks.
For a Page you manage from your own profile:
- Switch into the Page from your profile menu.
- Open Settings & privacy, then Settings.
- Choose Page setup, then Page access.
- Select Add New, find the person and decide whether to give them full control.
If the Page belongs to a business portfolio, assign people in Meta Business Suite instead: open Settings, choose Pages, select the Page and use Assign people to give full or partial access.
Give full control only to people who need it, and remove former staff and agencies when their work ends. Forgotten admin accounts are one of the most common ways businesses lose control of a Page.
Does your website still need an fb:admins tag?
Probably not. Meta’s guide to sharing for webmasters documents fb:app_id for connecting a site to a Facebook app, not fb:admins. The Like and Comments plugins that once relied on admin IDs were discontinued on February 10, 2026, so the main reason to put an admin ID in your site’s code has gone.
What still matters is how your links look when people share them. That is controlled by Open Graph tags: og:title, og:description, og:image and og:url. After you change them, run the page through Meta’s Sharing Debugger so Facebook fetches the new version.
If you need to prove you own your domain, for example to control link previews or run ads, use domain verification in Meta Business Suite under Settings, Brand safety, Domains. You can verify with a DNS TXT record, an HTML file upload or a meta tag in your homepage’s head.
Not sure who has access to your Page, or why your links share with the wrong image? Our Meta advertising team can sort out Page access, domain verification and Open Graph tags. Get in touch and tell us what you’re seeing.
