VK Influencer Finder — VK Video Creators & Public Contacts

VK Influencer Finder discovers VK/VKontakte communities and profiles through public VK Video search. Export audience counts, recognized public contacts and sampled engagement for sponsorship shortlists—not verified contacts or residence.

Discovery and qualification

Live catalog discovery uses returned author blocks and matched-video owners, then enriches anonymous community/profile fields, filters and globally deduplicates owner IDs. A search match does not verify niche specialization or video authorship.

No customer VK login/token is requested; the backend obtains an anonymous token using maintainer-configured web-client settings, an upstream dependency that can change. Direct HTTP only: no browser, downstream Actor or provided/mock mode; proxies are ignored.

Expansion runs after a base shortfall: auto uses Russian/English aliases, ≥2-owner hashtags then generic suffixes; broad accepts one-owner evidence and more variants; off retains original/localized queries only. Variants share output/filter/candidate limits; earlier emitted owners are not repeated.

Quick start

This illustrative input requests a small public-contact shortlist:

{
  "keywords": ["косметика"],
  "maxCreatorsPerKeyword": 5,
  "minFollowers": 1000,
  "onlyWithContact": true,
  "keywordExpansion": "auto"
}

API integrations can save JSON as input.json and start an asynchronous run:

curl -sS -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/QDhnDHHI5NSa7E0B5/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${APIFY_TOKEN}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data-binary @input.json

Inspect completion/status and RUN_SUMMARY before exporting. No customer VK token requirement does not remove Apify authentication or usage costs.

Input reference

All fields are optional.

Field	Default	Supported behavior
keywords	12 common Russian niches	String array; at most 50 unique normalized keywords. Empty/omitted array uses built-in niches. Russian and Latin text accepted.
minFollowers / maxFollowers	0 / 0	Inclusive audience bounds; 0 disables a bound. Active bounds reject unavailable audience counts. Maximum must not be below minimum.
minAverageViews	0	Minimum rounded average views of available matched-video samples; 0 disables it.
maxCreatorsPerKeyword	50	1–1000 retained owners per original keyword, shared by related queries.
onlyWithContact	true	Require a recognized public contact; false also saves/bills contact-empty matches.
creatorTypes	["community","profile"]	Select community, profile or both.
verifiedOnly	false	Require VK's verified flag, not this Actor's identity verification.
keywordExpansion	auto	auto, broad, off.
maxRelatedKeywords	4	1–10 related keyword roots; localization can generate additional variants.
countries	[]	Supported country codes below; unknown country signals fail an active filter.
languages	[]	Supported language codes below; unknown/below-threshold detections fail an active filter.
minimumLanguageConfidence	medium	high, medium, low; used with a language filter.
includeClips	true	Include returned short_video items in discovery and metrics. It is not a Clips-only search mode.
maxPagesPerQuery	20	1–100 pages per original/localized/related query.
maxCandidatesPerKeyword	1000	20–5000 budget; effective target depends on output/filters. A page can overshoot it.
requestTimeoutSecs	30	5–120 seconds per HTTP request.
maxRequestRetries	2	0–5 retries for supported temporary failures; terminal access errors are not repeatedly retried.
proxyConfiguration	disabled	Compatibility field, ignored.

Countries: RU, UA, BY, KZ, UZ, KG, AM, AZ, GE, MD, EE, LV, LT, DE, US, CA.

Languages: ru, uk, en, kk, be, uz, az, hy, ka, de, pl, tr.

Community audience uses members/followers; personal audience uses the larger profile/VK Video follower count, not their sum. These are source counts, not verified unique people.

Contacts and output

One row is one retained owner. Contacts come from profile text, links/community contacts and matched video text, which may mention advertisers or third parties. Inspect contactSources and verify attribution.

Contacts include email, explicit phone text/community records, Telegram, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X/Twitter, RuTube, MAX, explicit external websites and manager URLs from community contact IDs. Generic VK URLs or unlabeled non-social websites in video text alone do not qualify. Links are not crawled/resolved; delivery, reachability and manager authority are untested.

Key output groups:

• Owner/profile: creatorId/ownerId (communities negative), type, username, nickname, profile/VK Video URLs, avatar, verified/closed flags, description/status/activity.
• Audience: followerCount, profileFollowerCount, videoFollowerCount, videoCount.
• Contacts: email/phone arrays, social fields, website, manager URL(s), links, primary contact, contactSources, hasContact.
• Evidence: keyword, matchedQuery, relatedKeyword, expansionSource, matched text, country/city/source and language/confidence/source fields, ISO scrapedAt.
• Samples: count, rounded view/like/comment/repost averages, engagementRatePercent, best matched-video fields and up to five matchedVideoSamples.

Metrics use up to 12 deduplicated search videos per owner, not lifetime/recent-history averages. Rounded averages use available numbers; engagement is (likes + comments + reposts) / views × 100 for positive sampled views. Records freeze when first qualified; later samples may not be reflected. Featured authors can qualify with zero samples if no view filter applies.

RUN_SUMMARY includes keyword errors, filter/request/output counts and limits. SUCCEEDED_WITH_WARNINGS is a custom summary label, not an Apify terminal status.

Current pricing and billing

Event	FREE	BRONZE–DIAMOND
Retained creator row	$0.025	$0.005
Actor Start	$0.00005/event	$0.00005/event

Retained, deduplicated rows use Actor.pushData/apify-default-dataset-item. Rejected owners have no row event; contact-empty matches are billed with the filter off. Startup is per GB of allocated memory, minimum one event/run, including empty/failed runs.

Apify compute, transfer and storage are billed separately to the running user. Event fees are not all-inclusive totals. See the Pricing tab.

Free policy: developer-set 50 rows globally/run; FREE rows remain priced. Paid plans have no 50-row cap, but other limits remain. Zero saved rows fails; some saved rows can coexist with keyword errors.

Reliability and FAQ

Are country/language verified? No: country fields/city mappings/text mentions may not describe residence. Language confidence is heuristic. Neither proves audience geography or calibrated accuracy.

Does every lead have an email? No. With the default contact filter, a website, manager URL or supported social contact can qualify instead. Contacts require manual verification.

Will the requested count be reached? No guarantee: page/candidate/query, source and billing limits can stop discovery. Exposed metadata of closed owners may appear; isClosed alone does not exclude a row or grant protected-content access.

Anonymous endpoints can change or block requests. Counts/order are snapshots; scrapedAt is processing time. Respect privacy, platform terms, anti-spam law and opt-outs.

Complementary Actors

• VK Video Scraper — collect videos from selected VK searches/channels.
• TikTok Influencer Finder — build a separate TikTok creator shortlist.