Mafia Wars Profile Links
** UPDATE **
Dec 10, 2009. It has come to my attention that copying a player link from the player update tab within mafia wars has stopped working. I have changed the instructions below to reflect the current working method to obtain a link from within mafia wars
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Ever wonder how to view someone’s mafia profile when they post on the message boards? Maybe you’ve wanted to send someone a message or a friend request who shows up in your mafia wars game?
To some the logic behind this is simple. Everyone has a facebook ID number. This ID number is also your Mafia Wars ID number. By editing the URL in your browser with someone’s ID you can view them in either facebook or mafia wars.
To simplify the process I’ve created an easy tool to allow even the novice computer user the ability to easily view anyone’s mafia or facebook profile. It will even generate an Add To Mafia link so you can bypass the send request feature even if their status isn’t set.
STEP 1
Getting the subjects link
Right Click on the subject and select “Copy Shortcut” in IE or “Copy Link Location” in Firefox
From Facebook
You can copy someone’s profile link in facebook from your friends list, from their profile url, or from the message boards. The below image is taken from the message boards.
If that doesn’t work, visit thier profile and copy the Send Message link under their picture.
From Mafia Wars
You can copy someone’s profile link in Mafia Wars When you are viewing a Player’s Profile. Simply copy the Profile, Attack, or Sucker Punch link with the same result.
If you see that someone attacked you in the Player Update window, click their name to bring you to the profile screen.
Then from the profile screen Right Click on the Profile, Attack, or Sucker Punch links and copy the link. FireFox calls it “Copy Link Location”. Internet Explorer calls it “Copy Shortcut”
STEP 2
Open the Mafia Wars Quick Links Toolbar located at http://www.mafia-wars-tips.info/fb
STEP 3
Paste your URL from step 1 into the text box located at the lower left of the screen. You can do this by right clicking in the text box and selecting paste.
STEP 4
Click GO
STEP 5
On the right hand side of the screen you will be shown the User ID# of the subject and given three links. One to view their facebook profile, one to view their mafia wars profile, and one to add to mafia. Note: if the User ID # is blank try going back to step 1 again.
The add to mafia link is the same as clicking on someone’s add me link in their profile. It bypasses the need to send an invite through mafia wars. By using this link you don’t have to wait for anyone to accept your invite. If they are facebook friends and they play mafia wars they will be immediately added to your mafia. You may have to click on My Mafia afterwords for the number of mafia members to refresh.
Just click on one of the three links and you will be taken to the correct place!
Have fun - I hope this tool helps.
neat! i was searching google for the way to create an MW invitation link since i’m out of requests. i can sort of figure it out thanks to the info you provided. thanks so much!
Wow! Brilliant and thanks, this is very helpful for not so computer savvy guy like me… cheers mate!
Thanks for this.
I had been able to view the id of ppl who attacked me as their facebook name is highlighted if you hover the mouse over their profile picture. I couldn’t work out how to find the id of people who hitlisted me as it just gives a name.
Thanks again : D
how about the modified link such as http://www.facebook.com/nathali.blackwell ?
seems this stuff doesn’t work.
David, you are correct, the custom URL won’t give you the profile ID number. When you run into one of those you need to visit the profile then copy the Send a Message link located below the picture. That will give you the ID number.
Ok,
I’m having a hard time with this and I really want to figure it out. When I click on the link for mafia war’s tips and such it pops me back to my page on Mafia War’s? Help!
Thanks!
Julie
Julie, it sounds like your web browser is kicking you out of the frame. Try going to this link instead: http://mafia-wars-tips.info/fb/mafia_left.html
i see. so id number in status message is the same with the profle link id number. thanks, jamin.
the “Add to Mafia” feature doesn’t seem to work anymore. Did FB change something?
They keep breaking it and later fixing it. Sometimes it will break and fix several times a day, sometimes it stays broken for days or weeks.
How do I make it so my picture is not showing and they can’t get my name by hovering over the picture? No real name just my mafia name and the blank picture?
Mafia Favors:
Does anyone know why mine only worked for 15 minutes?
My boyfriends works all the time. I cannot seem to get it going? HELP! :)
Is there a similar feature for vampire wars? (i.e. with the convenient window on the left)
Nice post, very…very useful
Thank`s a lot
No, sorry - I’ve never played vampire wars
Loved the way all the steps where explained and shown, makes it so easy to understand. Thanks so much.
Iv tried and iv tried but i cannot get any details, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks for everyone’s feedback. Seems you can no longer copy the link from mafia wars player updates. I updated the instructions, please review step 1 and try again.
I tried the above method. I can view someones mafia wars profile but have not been successful adding them to my mafia even though they are on my friends list and play mafia wars.
Adding a friend to your mafia doesn’t work when out of requests. But it’s a nice toolbar. Thanks…
greaaaaaaaaaaaaat tip thank you man
it dont seem to work no more,,,it just keeps putting me back to my facebook homepage,,,any ideas?
Superb Dude, It works :))) Thx
Brilliant. Thanks a million.
I have a question … i have the mafia name of a person but no id … because he give me a water gun in gift safe house … but 15 time … i want to know who it but my mafia family it over 5516 persone … he mafia name it [SWA] ☠ ®
i have someones mafia wars profile link that is not numbers
when using your TOOL it just sends me to FACEBOOK manin page
not his profile
is ther any way to find his FACEBOOK PROFILE?????
Was working great but not any more. Looks like they changed it again.
Any plans to add the ability to find a profile for those of us using Safari?
I have the opposite problem. I know the person’s facebook ID, but I want to view their MAFIA PROFILE. I thought it would be nice to be able to scope out someone’s mafia profile out before I friend them. I’ve aslo got quite a few folks who accepted my friend request in FB, but my MW request is just sitting there…. I’ve wasted requests (that I could have used for gifts) on these folks… Is there a way to get them added now that they are FB friends without having to ask (i.e. programmatically compel them in)? I think I could do it via the autoplayer interface, …but I can’t pull up their MW profile to use it on them…!
Thanks, this is going to be very helpful cause I only have few Mafia of good level
Darn, my add to Mafia stopped working……
Hi Peeps,
Great advice, will be coming back 4 more… this works!
But.. any news on a copy and paste MW Invitation link, so I can just paste straight to a profile? Like the one in VW or Modern Combat.
Thanks loads x
The “View Facebook Profile” has stopped working for the past few days - is there a known issue? I “copied link location” on a persons profile within Facebook as normal, it just doesn’t work.
This doesn’t work anymore
FB changed something, it works from FB profile to MW profile but not from MW profile to FB profile. I had been using this handy tool for quite some time to recruit mafia and I know I’m not doing something wrong.
well there is another way i figured out
you can still see the user id of FB profile from the rob link
so right click and copy link and there it is the facebook id at the end. the basically hide it from profile in MW by changing it to p|******* when it’s ********
hope it helps cause it worked for me
I found another way to view the FB profile from the MW profile, also using the “Rob” link.
Right click on the “Rob” link and copy the address. Near the end of the URL you will see the word “target”. Replace the word “target” with the word “user”. Paste this updated URL into the Get User Link box and hit “Go”.
I tried it several times and it worked for me.
Good luck.
Tony’s method works. Go get ‘em!
Thanks everyone. MW changed it so the user links are hidden. Don’t know how long the rob link will continue to work. I updated the script so you can just paste the rob link without making any changes to it.
I know someone’s MW name an don’t have a link for them currently showing. Any ideas how I can find them? (ie find their ID)
I have someone’s profile link but I can’t get their MafiaWars profile link. They were extremely vulgar to a woman friend of mine and I’d like to teach them a lesson. Please help.
In Mafia Wars, copy the Robbing Link, works great!
Thanks Xero and Tony!
Took me to my own MW profile page, not the FB profile of the player I was trying to contact.
The Robbing link still works, however it looks like they’ve changed the “Send xxxx a message” link from the Facebook profile page, at least for the people I’ve checked, so it no longer works.
I did find a workaround, however, to find the Mafia Wars profile of someone from their Facebook profile page.
The following steps worked several times for me:
1. Right click on the “Send xxxx a message” link from the Facebook profile page and select copy link location.
2. Paste into Notepad (or any text editor).
3. Highlight then copy only the numbers after the “=” sign, at the end of the URL you just pasted.
4. Paste these numbers at the end of the following URL:
http://facebook.mafiawars.com/mwfb/remote/html_server.php?xw_controller=robbingtarget&xw_action=view&xw_city=3&tmp=1fd9e7152881763b14cedb7a7d29e094&cb=3d067af09ad111dfb1a0c311a649b417&target=
5. Copy/paste this address into the tool and hit “Go”.
Good luck.
Tony, thanks for the info - I fixed the script on this site to work with facebooks new send message link. You can copy and paste the send message link directly into the get user link form at http://mafia-wars-tips.info/fb again.
still can’t get it to work
I’ve followed the instructions and the profile number still doesn’t show therefore it only links me back to my information. Did they make a change that this doesn’t work anymore? I have many mafia who are no longer friends and I want to remove them as they restrict me from taking advantage of some of the new features since they can’t help me. Please let me know… thanks!
this Trick working 100% .
just follow the 1st tony’s way just copy “ROB” links and u must change target with user.
btw add me as your mafia, my fb as same as my name ;)
When i right click on the profile it doesn’t give me the option to copy shortcut! What now?
The easiest work around — In your “Player Updates” feed, right click on the profile picture and select ‘Copy Image Location’.
Paste the URL somewhere, such as Notepad. Near the end of the URL, there are 3 strings of numbers, separated by underscores. The middle series is the facebook user id. Copy this number and add to the end of this URL:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=
Good luck… and you’re welcome ;P
not working anymore
need mafia war family to help
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Not working again. Even the workaround. Thoughts?
THanks Lenny…that was the only one that worked :)
Along the same lines as what Lenny posted:
Anywhere you see someones mafia profile picture, just right-click on it and choose View Image Info. You will see a line like this:
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs1343.snc4/161432_XXXXXXXXXXXXX_2477467_q.jpg
where the X’s are the FB ID of that person. Simply add that number to the end of this:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=
I am not able to get this to work, I keep getting a blank ID. I am using Google chrome if that makes a difference and I have tried with IE8. I would appreciate any assistance.
Lenny <<<ORIGINAL POSTER
September 14th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
The easiest work around — In your “Player Updates” feed, right click on the profile picture and select ‘Copy Image Location’.
Paste the URL somewhere, such as Notepad. Near the end of the URL, there are 3 strings of numbers, separated by underscores. The middle series is the facebook user id. Copy this number and add to the end of this URL:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=
Good luck… and you’re welcome ;P
ORIGINAL POSTER IS LENNY. ALL CREDITS TO LENNY.
that doesnt work for me, I copied the url in mws and wanted a facebook profile, it gave me my profile, not the one I needed