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VKontakte is one of the most popular social networks among Russian-speaking users. On the site you can chat with friends, share photos, listen to music, and also make new acquaintances. There are people on the social network with the same first names, last names, and even identical profile photos, so an ID is used to make each page unique.
What is VKontakte ID?
VKontakte ID is a unique user identifier and is assigned automatically during account creation. It represents the serial number of a page on a social network. For example, VK developer Pavel Durov has an ID of 1 (vk.com/id1), since he was the first registered user of the site. The original ID cannot be changed, so it is the easiest way to find the pages of the right people through it.
Note: if you want to hide from your friends that you are online, find out how to use VK offline.
How to find out a friend's ID? How to find out someone else's ID?
Go to this person's page and you will see his ID in the address that the browser shows. If the address is not visible on your phone, you can click on the address bar at the top, select the entire address and paste it somewhere (for example, into a new note). We have already figured out that an ID is part of the address of a person’s page on VK. For example, if the address of someone else's page is like this:
https://vk.com/id126494354
...then here id126494354 is someone else’s ID. By the way, we know how to find a person by VKontakte ID.
To find out a person’s ID in the VK mobile application, you can go to his page and through the additional menu (usually looks like an ellipsis) select “Share”, and then open it in the browser or copy and then paste it somewhere and look.
How to find out your ID in VK?
Let's look at the available options.
URL
If the short address of the VKontakte page has not been changed to a nickname through the settings, the fastest way to view your own ID is using the URL. To do this, just open your VK profile and left-click on the browser address bar. The ID will be indicated immediately after the text “vk.com/”.
account settings
You can find your ID in your account settings. To do this you need:
- Login to VK. Click on the accessibility button (on the right side of the site header) and select the “Settings” option from the list.
- The ID is indicated in the “Page Address” line (the “General” tab).
Note: if you are interested in the age of your account, find out how many years you have been in VK.
Page code
The function of viewing the source code of a page is available in any browser. To determine the ID using it, you will need:
- Log in to your VKontakte account - otherwise the ID will be displayed as “0”. Right-click on an empty area (where there are no inscriptions, photographs or other active elements) and click “View page code”.
- In the tab that opens, find the ID - the identifier is in line No. 26.
Note: find out how to restore your VK page if you deleted it or lost your login information.
How to find out ID if you are on the black list (blocked)
Sometimes a situation arises when you need to find out the ID of the person whose blacklist you are on, i.e. locked down. In this case, you can also view his ID, but it’s a little more complicated; to do this you will have to open the code of his VKontakte profile page.
Open the page to which access is restricted for you, call the context menu by right-clicking anywhere on this page and select “View code” / “View element code” or similar, depending on your browser.
Next, press the “CTRL+F” to open the search bar by code.
“user_id” in the search bar that opens using the page code . As a result of the search, you will see this text in the page code, followed by the digital ID of the VKontakte user, which is what we need.
As you can see, it is quite easy to find out the ID of any VK user, even if you are on his blacklist.
How to find out the VK ID of another user?
Let's look at the available options.
Profile photo
The ID of someone else's account, by analogy with your own, can be determined through the URL. But if your profile has an individual short address (a set of letters and numbers), and you are looking for the original ID that is given during registration, you must follow these steps:
- Open the page of the person you are interested in and click on his avatar with the left mouse button.
- View the ID in the browser's address bar - it starts after the word "photo" and ends before the underscore.
The writing is on the wall
If there is no avatar on someone else’s page or it is completely empty, you can determine the ID using the wall. For this you will need:
- Open the desired VKontakte profile. Click on the “No posts” button (if there are posts on the wall, it will be called “All posts”).
- The ID will appear in the URL after the word "wall".
Note: find out how to view guests on VK to check who visited your page.
RegVK
If a person has limited access to their profile or you are on their blacklist, the RegVK online service will help you determine your ID. To use it, you need:
- Go to the page of the person of interest. Right-click on the address bar of the browser and copy the URL with the same command.
- Open the website regvk.com. Paste the URL into the special field by pressing Ctrl + V or right-clicking and selecting the appropriate action.
- The service will indicate the user ID received when registering on the social network.
The online program is able to determine the IDs of groups, public pages and VKontakte events in the same way..
How to find out the ID of another VKontakte user
In order to find out someone else's ID, you need to do the following. Open the profile of the person whose ID you want to see and simply hover over his avatar. In most browsers, a pop-up address bar will appear in the lower left (or right) corner, in which you will find the person's ID.
In this case, ID is a set of numbers after the word photo and before the underscore , i.e. 1234567890.
If your browser does not show a pop-up message on hover, then this is also not a problem. Click on the user’s avatar and in the address bar of the browser you will also see the ID of this profile, similar to the option above, after the word photo and before the underscore there will be exactly what you were looking for.
Everything can be made even simpler if you have a correspondence with a VKontakte user whose ID you want to know. In this case, simply open your dialog in the “Messages” tab and in the address bar of your browser you will see the ID of this profile immediately after the letters “im?sel=” .
As you can see, finding out the id of any user is not at all difficult. However, none of the above methods (except the last one) will work if you are on a person’s blacklist. What to do in this case? Let's talk.
How to find out your VKontakte ID if it has been changed to a nickname?
VK has a function that allows you to change the original page ID to a personal address made of Latin letters and numbers. In this case, the original digital ID remains assigned to the account. To find out your ID changed to a nickname, you need to:
- Go to the link vk.com/settings in the settings menu. Click “Change” next to the “Page Address” line.
- After pressing the button, the inscription “Page number” will appear - this is its original ID.
As for other people's profiles with changed addresses, the easiest way to find out their ID is using the RegVK service mentioned above.
Note: to clean your playlist of unnecessary audio, find out how to delete a song on VK.
How to find out your VKontakte ID
Most often, users need to look at their ID in vk.com. It couldn't be easier to do this. Your profile ID can be found in the address bar of your browser (if you have not set a nickname for yourself), or in your profile settings.
At first, all VKontakte users had only a digital ID, and there was no problem finding out yours at all, but for quite some time now everyone has been able to set a unique name for themselves, which is displayed instead of an ID in the browser.
If you haven’t done this, just click on the “My Page” on the left side of the screen and you will see your ID in the address bar of your browser.
If, instead of a digital identifier, you see text in English, it means you have set yourself a beautiful address for your profile page. But it’s okay, in this case you can see the ID in the settings in just a couple of clicks.
Click on the VK profile name in the upper right corner and select “Settings” .
Just below on the main settings screen you will see the page address you have set. Click the "Edit" next to it.
Under the line “Page Address” a field called “Page Number” - this is your ID on the VKontakte social network.
Now you have found out your ID. But if it’s quite easy to look up your number, then in order to look up another person’s ID, sometimes you may need to work a little (just a little), and sometimes it’s no more difficult to do this than to find out your ID.
How to find out the VKontakte page ID from a computer?
Often this number can be viewed simply in the address bar in the browser while on your page. It will be indicated immediately after the address of the site itself (vk.com/), and it begins with the letters id and continues with a unique number. You can simply copy it from this address bar.
Here it is worth about to identify the page can be used:
- Standard ID, which is assigned automatically after registration on the site;
- A special alias, that is, a unique profile address that the user subsequently sets personally.
If the alias was specified in the settings, it will be displayed in the address bar instead of the ID number.
If a person sees his alias instead of ID, but still needs to know his specific identification number, he should go to the page settings by calling the pop-up menu in the upper right corner of the screen and clicking “Settings”.
On the next page, in the “Page Address” section, click “Change”.
Here you can change the alias in the corresponding window, and also see your ID under this address.
How to find out the ID of the VKontakte page in the application?
In the official application, you can try to view your ID by going to your page and clicking on the three dots in the upper right corner to open additional functions.
Next, you just need to select “Copy link”, after which the page address will be placed on the clipboard.
Then you can paste it as text in any convenient place and see your ID.
Important!
If the user changed his short page address, it will be shown instead of the ID.
How to find out the VKontakte page ID in the mobile version?
Using standard VK tools, you cannot find out your ID on m.vk.com through the settings, but by resorting to a special method, even here you can find out the identification number, even if the user has changed the short address of his page. First you need to open any post on your wall so that it appears in a separate tab as a new page in the browser. In the address bar, after m.vk.com/wall there is a number before the first underscore, which is precisely the profile ID of this user.
How to find out the id if the link contains a nickname
You may also have noticed that groups mostly have a special word written instead of id, which is usually the name of the group. For example, the group “Pikabu” has the name “pikabu” instead of id. This does not mean that there is no id. It's there, but it's just hidden. The same situation can happen to any user’s page.
To view a hidden group or user ID, you can use the regvk service. To do this, follow the link https://regvk.com/id/ and enter the link of the public or person in the specified window. For example, let's introduce the same pikabu. Then click on the “Define ID” button.
After this, in the service you will be able to see the ID of the public page to the right of the group avatar.
Now you know how to find out the VK ID on various pages. To do this, just go to the dialogue, someone else’s profile, or group and look at the link. It will indicate the ID and a set of numbers after it - this is the page id.
How to find out the IDs of friends in contact?
If necessary, you can determine not only your ID and your friends. In addition to the quick way to view the number in the address bar, you can use other methods. This is especially true if the user has changed the digital number to a name or personal unique nickname, that is, if there are letters instead of numbers. Here are some popular ways to obtain an ID number:
- You need to open the account you are looking for in a regular browser, examine the address bar, that is, the digital data coming after indicators such as https://vk.com/id....
- It is permissible to use the special LinkApp application. If you wish, you can download it from the link vk.com/linkapp. In the link that opens, you need to enter the user's nickname, which he set instead of numbers, click on “Find out” and immediately receive his ID number.
- You can find out your ID by looking at your avatar. Just click on the photo representing the profile of the person you are looking for and look again at the address bar. The numbers located between the word “photo” and the special sign “_” reveal the desired ID number.
- The ID is recognized from the information on the wall. If the information on the wall is not hidden from the searcher, you will need to click on the number when the post was posted. The ID number will be located between the “wall” and “_” signs.
- It is possible to use regular messages. You will need to click on the “send messages” function, sending it to the person whose ID you want to know. Immediately after opening the section with a conversation with the user, a link similar to this will open - https://vk.com/im?sel=295772019, where the extreme characters are the ID.
- The user can go to the personal individual page of the person they are looking for. The page code opens. To solve the question of how to view ID in VK, you will need to press the key combination “CTRL” + “U”. If the keyboard shortcut does not open the desired code, you can use the button on the mouse and act through the search bar, where information is indicated under the “View page code” category.
Similar methods are used to check the user ID number or a specific selected object on the network. This is very convenient for many users who are forced to search and process large amounts of information every day.
group id
Each community, like a user, has an identifier. Therefore, in order to recognize him in the community, you should follow exactly the same instructions as with your page.
On the computer
So, let’s first open the desired group to find out its ID:
- Follow the link vk.com and click on the button “Communities».
- Open the group whose ID you need to find out.
- At the top we also look at the link. Here we have the id indicated as a name.
You will also be able to see some users' id as a name. This indicates that the ID settings have been changed, which you can also configure.
From phone
- We open the same page that we reviewed above, only on the phone. In it, click on the ellipsis located in the upper right corner.
- In the menu that appears, select “Copy link».
- We insert the link exactly as we did in previous times.
