Getting the Facebook Post ID

For professional live streaming, mimoLive™ contains features that allow you to interact with social media and make social media content visible in your live video stream.

Specifically, you can overlay these social media content while live streaming:
- View, moderate and display social media comments from Facebook and YouTube
- Display Facebook Likes
- Display Facebook Reactions
- Display Twitter Tweets
- Display Twitch chat

For these Social Media Source it’s necessary that you know the Post ID of a certain Facebook Post.
Here you learn a simple way to find the Facebook post id with a web browser.

Getting the Facebook Post ID of a certain post

To get the Facebook Post ID of a certain post you need to open Facebook in your Internet browser and navigate to that post. Find the time stamp of that post and click on it.

This will get you to an “only this post” view on Facebook. Now if you check the URL of the current webpage you will see something like this:

Copy the number behind “permalink” from this URL in your browser and put it into the “Post ID” field of the Social Media Source.