VK Posts Scraper

Returns: one row per VK post with postUrl, text, publishedAt, likesCount, repostsCount, commentsCount, viewsCount, authorName. Input: {"targets": ["https://vk.com/team"], "maxItems": 50} Best for: monitoring VK communities and public figures, collecting post engagement for media research, building datasets of Russian-language social posts.

{
    "postUrl": "https://vk.com/wall-22822305_1729945",
    "text": "Делаете классную рекламу и развиваете бизнес с VK? ...",
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T11:22:54Z",
    "likesCount": 107,
    "repostsCount": 4,
    "commentsCount": 34,
    "viewsCount": 52652,
    "authorName": "ВКонтакте"
}

What does VK Posts Scraper do?

VK Posts Scraper is a VK (VKontakte) scraper that collects the posts on public VK walls: community pages (groups, public pages, events) and public user profiles. Give it a wall URL, a screen name or a numeric id, and it returns one row per post with the full text, publication and edit time, exact like, repost, comment and view counts, the pinned and repost flags, attachment types, photo, video and link URLs, and who published the post.

It reads VK's own public JSON API (the same one the logged-out vk.com web app uses), so the numbers are exact integers rather than the rounded "1.2K" shown in the browser. No VK account, login or API key is needed, and the Actor doesn't use a browser, so runs are fast and light.

Typical uses are tracking what a brand, media outlet or public figure posts on VK, measuring engagement across several communities, archiving a community's recent history, and feeding post text into translation, sentiment or topic analysis. Think of it as a simple VK API for wall posts that you can call from the Apify Console, your own code or an AI agent.

What data can you get from VK?

Field	Description	Example
id	Stable post ID (same as postId)	-22822305_1729945
postId	<ownerId>_<post id>; negative owner ids are communities	-22822305_1729945
postUrl	Link to the post on vk.com	https://vk.com/wall-22822305_1729945
ownerId	ID of the wall the post is on (negative for a community)	-22822305
fromId	ID of whoever published the post	-22822305
text	Post text as VK returns it, with VK inline markup such as [id1|Name] kept; null when the post has no text	Делаете классную рекламу...
publishedAt	Publication time, ISO 8601 UTC	2026-10-14T11:22:54Z
editedAt	Last edit time, ISO 8601 UTC; null if never edited	2026-10-14T12:13:54Z
likesCount	Exact number of likes	107
repostsCount	Exact number of reposts	4
commentsCount	Exact number of comments	34
viewsCount	Exact number of views; null when VK doesn't report views	52652
isPinned	True for the post pinned at the top of the wall	false
isRepost	True when the post shares another post	false
repostedPostUrl	Link to the original post of a repost; null otherwise	https://vk.com/wall-1_340364
attachmentTypes	Types of attachments: photo, video, link, doc, poll, audio and so on	["video"]
photoUrls	Largest image URL of each attached photo	["https://sun9-81.userapi.com/..."]
videoUrls	Link to each attached video on vk.com	["https://vk.com/video-22822305_456243482"]
linkUrls	URL of each attached link	["https://vk.cc/d2TzBl"]
authorName	Community name, or the user's first and last name	ВКонтакте
authorScreenName	The author's screen name (the part after vk.com/)	vk
authorType	group for a community, user for a person	group
input	The target from your input that returned the post	https://vk.com/team
scrapedAt	When this run collected the post, ISO 8601 UTC	2026-10-14T18:59:46Z
sourceUrl	The VK API request the post came from (without any token)	https://api.vk.com/method/wall.get?...&domain=team

Some fields depend on the post itself. Old posts, especially from before 2017, often have no view count, so viewsCount is null there rather than 0. A post that only shares another post usually has no text of its own; its isRepost is true and repostedPostUrl points to the original.

How to use VK Posts Scraper

1. Open VK Posts Scraper in the Apify Console and go to the Input tab.
2. In "VK walls", add one or more walls. You can paste the address from your browser (https://vk.com/rbc), the mobile address (https://m.vk.com/rbc), a vk.ru address, a screen name (rbc, durov), a community id (club1, public200000000, -25232578, https://vk.com/wall-25232578) or a user id (id1, 1).
3. Set "Maximum posts in total" (maxItems) to how many posts you want across all walls, and optionally "Maximum posts per wall" (maxPostsPerTarget) to spread the total over several walls.
4. Optionally set "Only posts published on or after" (dateFrom) to get only recent posts, and turn off "Include the pinned post" if you want only the regular timeline.
5. Click Start. When the run finishes, open the Output tab and export the posts as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS, or read them through the API.

Tips:

Walls are read newest post first, in the order you list them. If the first wall has more posts than maxItems, the later walls get nothing, so use maxPostsPerTarget when you want posts from every wall.

dateFrom stops reading a wall at the first regular post older than the date. The pinned post is the exception: it always comes first and can be years old, so it is skipped by the date filter without stopping the wall.

A wall that doesn't exist, is private, deleted or banned, or has no posts returns nothing. The run logs a warning for it and goes on with the next wall, so one bad target never sinks the others. If no wall returns posts, the run still finishes successfully and its status message says which target failed and why.

VK's API normally answers without a proxy. If your runs start getting blocked or rate-limited, turn on Apify Proxy in the Proxy section; blocked requests are then retried on a new IP automatically.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
targets	array of strings	Yes	VK walls to scrape: URLs, screen names, community ids (club1, public123, -123) or user ids (id1, 1).
maxItems	integer	No	Maximum posts across all walls, 1-10000, default 50.
maxPostsPerTarget	integer	No	Maximum posts from each wall, default 100.
dateFrom	string	No	Only posts on or after this date, e.g. 2026-01-31 or an ISO date-time. Empty by default.
includePinned	boolean	No	Return the wall's pinned post, default true.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Proxy settings. Default: no proxy.

{
    "targets": ["https://vk.com/team", "durov", "club1"],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "maxPostsPerTarget": 40,
    "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
    "includePinned": true,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Output

Each post is one item in the run's dataset. These are real items from a local run on durov (VK's founder's public wall, whose newest posts date from 2018):

[
    {
        "id": "1_2431591",
        "postId": "1_2431591",
        "postUrl": "https://vk.com/wall1_2431591",
        "ownerId": 1,
        "fromId": 1,
        "text": "Михаил Светов, организатор прошедшего митинга за свободу интернета, объявил конкурс на наиболее вдохновляющую обработку видеоматериалов с митинга. Призовой фонд – 1 биткоин.\n\n#digitalresistance",
        "publishedAt": "2018-05-03T13:05:53Z",
        "editedAt": "2018-05-03T13:06:15Z",
        "likesCount": 26391,
        "repostsCount": 5695,
        "commentsCount": 0,
        "viewsCount": 9880333,
        "isPinned": false,
        "isRepost": false,
        "repostedPostUrl": null,
        "attachmentTypes": ["video"],
        "photoUrls": [],
        "videoUrls": ["https://vk.com/video1_456239033"],
        "linkUrls": [],
        "authorName": "Pavel Durov",
        "authorScreenName": "durov",
        "authorType": "user",
        "input": "durov",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T19:00:55Z",
        "sourceUrl": "https://api.vk.com/method/wall.get?v=5.199&client_id=6287487&count=4&offset=0&extended=1&domain=durov"
    },
    {
        "id": "1_2422169",
        "postId": "1_2422169",
        "postUrl": "https://vk.com/wall1_2422169",
        "ownerId": 1,
        "fromId": 1,
        "text": null,
        "publishedAt": "2018-05-01T15:19:57Z",
        "editedAt": null,
        "likesCount": 109438,
        "repostsCount": 5258,
        "commentsCount": 0,
        "viewsCount": 10306065,
        "isPinned": false,
        "isRepost": false,
        "repostedPostUrl": null,
        "attachmentTypes": ["photo"],
        "photoUrls": ["https://sun9-81.userapi.com/s/v1/ig1/Pu8awSIubU_Y8T1rJ34J_Vp0O8vHeIRwqxcLeTA2kUAY0nYPM1Z3g_4GroP8haJiSMh69WST.jpg?quality=96&blur=50,20&as=32x24,48x36,72x54,108x81,160x120,240x180,360x270,480x360,540x405,640x480,720x540,1080x810,1279x959&from=bu&u=bGESEAbiciYKstmnY0G7ZW5jP6_Fs5z5vvAoBt8gtbQ"],
        "videoUrls": [],
        "linkUrls": [],
        "authorName": "Pavel Durov",
        "authorScreenName": "durov",
        "authorType": "user",
        "input": "durov",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T19:00:55Z",
        "sourceUrl": "https://api.vk.com/method/wall.get?v=5.199&client_id=6287487&count=4&offset=0&extended=1&domain=durov"
    }
]

You can download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the Output tab, or fetch it through the Apify API. In CSV and Excel, list fields such as photoUrls are spread over numbered columns.

How much does it cost to scrape VK?

VK Posts Scraper is charged per result: you pay for each post returned, and nothing for walls that return no posts. maxItems caps how many posts a run can return, and so what it can cost. If you set a maximum cost per run in the run options, the Actor stops cleanly when that limit is reached and keeps the posts it already saved. See the Pricing tab for the current price.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect VK Posts Scraper to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=axiomworks/vk-posts-scraper"
        }
    }
}

Example prompts:

1. "Get the 30 latest posts from https://vk.com/rbc and list the five with the most views."
2. "Scrape the posts on the VK walls team and durov since 2026-01-01 and summarise what each one talks about."
3. "Compare average likes and reposts per post for VK communities club1 and public200000000 over their last 50 posts."

The agent sees the input fields described above. The only required one is targets; everything else has a sensible default.

Integrations and API

Run VK Posts Scraper from your own code with the Apify API. Set APIFY_TOKEN to your Apify API token (send it in the Authorization header, never in the URL).

Python

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["APIFY_TOKEN"])
run = client.actor("axiomworks/vk-posts-scraper").call(run_input={"targets": ["https://vk.com/team"], "maxItems": 50})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["postUrl"], item["likesCount"], item["viewsCount"])

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('axiomworks/vk-posts-scraper').call({ targets: ['https://vk.com/team'], maxItems: 50 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/axiomworks~vk-posts-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"targets": ["https://vk.com/team"], "maxItems": 50}'

You can also connect the Actor to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack or your own webhooks from the Integrations tab, and schedule it (for example every hour) to keep a running archive of a community's posts.

FAQ

Do I need a VK account or API key? No. The Actor uses the anonymous access that VK's own logged-out website uses, so it sees exactly what any visitor without an account can see. Private walls and members-only content are not available.

Which walls work? Public community walls (groups, public pages, events) and public user profiles. A closed group, a private profile, or a deleted or banned page returns no posts, with a warning in the log saying the wall is private, deleted or banned.

Why did my run return 0 results? The usual reasons are a typo in the screen name (VK answers that no page has that name), a private or deleted wall, an empty wall, or a dateFrom newer than the wall's latest post. The status message names the first failed target and the reason.

Why is viewsCount empty for some posts? VK doesn't report views for many older posts, mostly from before 2017. The Actor keeps the field null in that case instead of guessing 0.

Why does the text contain things like [id1|Pavel] or [#alias|vk.cc/...|...]? That is VK's inline markup for mentions and short links, kept exactly as VK returns it so you lose no information. Strip it in your own processing if you only need plain text.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads the wall live, so counts are current at the time shown in scrapedAt.

How many posts can I get from one wall? Up to 10,000 per run through maxItems, and VK pages through a wall 100 posts at a time. The Actor paces its requests at about one per second to stay polite to VK, so large runs take a few minutes.

Can I get comments too? Not yet: this Actor returns posts with their comment counts. Tell us on the Issues tab if you need the comments themselves.

Is it legal to scrape VK?

VK Posts Scraper collects only publicly visible posts, without logging in, and reads them through the same public interface VK's website uses for visitors. Posts on personal walls can contain personal data; you are responsible for having a legitimate reason to collect it and for handling it under the laws that apply to you, such as the GDPR. This is not legal advice; if in doubt, ask a lawyer.

VK Posts Scraper is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by VK (VKontakte).

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