Getting the Facebook Post ID

For the [Social Media Source](doc:social-media) sometimes its necessary that you know the Post ID of a certain Facebook Post. Here is a simple way to find it 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 a “only this post” view in 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.