Originally published here: https://nickgrattan.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/finding-the-id-guid-for-a-sharepoint-list/

There are times when you need to find the Id (a Guid) of a list – for example, when using jquery to pull data from a list. Here’s a simple way of doing this:

Navigate to the SharePoint list using the browser.

 

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Select the Settings + List Settings menu command.

Copy the Url from the browser address bar into Notepad. It will look something like:

…../CountryTemplate/_layouts/listedit.aspx?List=%7B874DE9AE-FFE3-4851-8801-8D35C7BD3187%7D

Delete everything before and including “List=”

To be left with

%7B874DE9AE-FFE3-4851-8801-8D35C7BD3187%7D

Now put this into a text editor such as notepad use find replace to

Change “%7B” to “{”

Change all “%2D” to “-“

Chnage “%7D” to “}”

You are now left with the Id:

{874DE9AE_FFE3_4851_8801_8D35C7BD3187}

Which is the GUID

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