VK People Scraper 🔍

🤖 What does VK People Scraper do?

VK People Scraper is a powerful tool that allows you to extract user profiles from VK.com (formerly VKontakte) based on search keywords. This actor navigates through VK's search results, collecting detailed information about users matching your search criteria.

✨ Features

• 🎯 Search for users based on keywords
• 👥 Extract detailed user profile information
• 📍 Get user locations
• 🖼️ Collect profile picture URLs
• ⚡ High-performance scraping with Puppeteer
• 🛡️ Built-in anti-detection mechanisms
• 🔄 Automatic pagination handling

📊 Output Dataset

The actor stores results in a structured JSON format, including:

• User ID
• Username
• Profile URL
• Location
• Avatar URL
• Search keyword used
• Timestamp of scraping

💡 Use Cases

• 🎯 Lead Generation
• 📊 Market Research
• 👥 Audience Analysis
• 🔍 Competitor Research
• 🌐 Social Media Marketing

💡 Tips

• Use specific keywords for better results
• Adjust maxItems based on your needs
• Consider running the actor during off-peak hours for better performance

🔄 Updates & Maintenance

This actor is regularly maintained and updated to ensure compatibility with VK.com's latest changes and to improve performance.

🔧 Input Parameters

• keywords: Array of search terms to find users
• maxItems: Maximum number of results to collect

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "fashion"
4    ],
5 	"maxItems": 50
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2	{
3		"keyword": "fashion",
4		"userId": "695449622",
5		"username": "Anna Fashion-Art",
6		"profileUrl": "https://vk.com/anna_fashion_art",
7		"location": "Moscow",
8		"avatarUrl": "https://sun6-22.userapi.com/s/v1/ig2/d0ReCkgwvB94ZDooEKdF06P_sIU6O1pWS6_rHO4dOVC_ehQMnc4YRHkEnCm4-N-cHGcsWkNGGxYLfxTmIEDafRA5.jpg?quality=95&crop=0,263,1904,1904&as=32x32,48x48,72x72,108x108,160x160,240x240,360x360,480x480,540x540,640x640,720x720,1080x1080,1280x1280,1440x1440&ava=1&cs=100x100",
9		"scrapedAt": "2024-11-22T15:51:48.108Z"
10	},
11	{
12		"keyword": "fashion",
13		"userId": "345370518",
14		"username": "Kataleya Fashion",
15		"profileUrl": "https://vk.com/id345370518",
16		"location": "Moscow",
17		"avatarUrl": "https://sun6-20.userapi.com/s/v1/if1/LMd4QATAi4G9bWUXbbc1nseJBvX9kHxmojBW2jrm-VailIsdB3cztZo-lN99OBgoCM602A.jpg?quality=96&crop=80,80,640,640&as=32x32,48x48,72x72,108x108,160x160,240x240,360x360,480x480,540x540,640x640&ava=1&cs=100x100",
18		"scrapedAt": "2024-11-22T15:51:48.109Z"
19	},
20    ...
21]