VK Scraper

What does VK Scraper do?

VK Scraper collects wall posts from public VK (VKontakte) communities, groups and pages: the full text, date, likes, reposts, views and comment count, photo URLs, video, link, article and file titles, the pinned flag and the original of every repost. It also saves a community profile (name, follower count, description, verified badge, website, photo) and, if you ask for them, the comments under each post. Paste community links or single post links. No VK account, login or access token is needed.

Try it with the prefilled community: open the Actor, click Start, and the first 20 posts from vk.com/vk arrive in a few seconds. Because it runs on the Apify platform, you also get API access, scheduled runs, integrations (Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, webhooks), run monitoring, and automatic retries through Apify Proxy if VK ever refuses a request.

Why scrape VK communities?

• Media monitoring in Russian-speaking markets: VK is the largest social network in Russia and the CIS. Follow news, brand and industry communities and get every new post as structured data.
• Competitor and brand research: compare how communities post and how many likes, reposts, views and comments each post earns.
• Audience research: rank communities by follower count and engagement per post.
• Sentiment analysis: collect the comments under posts about a product, event or topic.
• Archiving and AI datasets: save a community's history with text, links and media URLs for analysis or model training.

How to scrape VK posts

1. Open a public community on VK and copy its address, such as https://vk.com/habr. Links like https://vk.com/club22822305, https://vk.com/public22822305, vk.ru/..., m.vk.com/... and a bare screen name such as habr all work.
2. Paste it into VK links, one link per line. To get one post, paste its link instead, such as https://vk.com/wall-22822305_1730374.
3. Set Max posts per community (newest first).
4. Optionally turn on Include comments and set Max comments per post.
5. Click Start, then download the results when the run finishes.

Input

Everything is set on the Input tab.

Field	Type	Default	What it does
startUrls	list of links	["https://vk.com/vk"] (prefill)	Community or post links. Plain strings or {"url": "..."} objects.
maxPostsPerCommunity	integer	100	Posts per community, newest first; a pinned post comes first and counts. 0 saves only the profile.
includeCommunityInfo	boolean	true	Adds one profile row per community.
includeComments	boolean	false	Also saves top-level comments of each post.
maxCommentsPerPost	integer	20	Top-level comments per post, oldest first (up to 1,000).
proxyConfiguration	proxy	none	Leave empty; the Actor falls back to Apify Proxy on its own.

In JSON, the input looks like this:

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://vk.com/habr",
        "https://vk.com/club22822305",
        "https://vk.com/wall-22822305_1730374"
    ],
    "maxPostsPerCommunity": 100,
    "includeCommunityInfo": true,
    "includeComments": true,
    "maxCommentsPerPost": 20
}

Output

Each row has a type: post, comment or community. The Output tab has a view for each. You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel. A post (shortened):

{
    "type": "post",
    "url": "https://vk.com/wall-22822305_1730374",
    "postId": "-22822305_1730374",
    "date": "2026-10-16T10:25:00+00:00",
    "editedAt": "2026-10-17T09:36:47+00:00",
    "text": "Папы могут всё: и починить велосипед, и поговорить по душам…",
    "links": [],
    "likes": 492,
    "reposts": 46,
    "views": 144093,
    "comments": 307,
    "isPinned": false,
    "isAd": false,
    "communityId": 22822305,
    "communityName": "ВКонтакте",
    "communityUrl": "https://vk.com/vk",
    "authorId": -22822305,
    "authorName": "ВКонтакте",
    "photos": [],
    "attachments": [
        { "type": "video", "title": "С Днём отца! | VK", "url": "https://vk.com/video-22822305_456243492" }
    ],
    "repostOf": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T14:47:34.363520+00:00"
}

A community profile:

{
    "type": "community",
    "url": "https://vk.com/mash",
    "communityId": 112510789,
    "name": "Mash | Мэш",
    "screenName": "mash",
    "communityType": "page",
    "followers": 1949622,
    "isVerified": true,
    "description": "Mash — паблик быстрых, эксклюзивных и важных новостей…",
    "status": "Новости, которые вы заслужили",
    "activity": "Internet media",
    "website": null,
    "photoUrl": "https://sun1-89.vkuserphoto.ru/…"
}

Data fields

Posts

Field	Description
url, postId	Post link and VK id (<owner>_<post>; communities have negative owner ids).
date, editedAt	Published and last edited time, ISO 8601 in UTC (editedAt is null if never edited).
text	Full post text as vk.com shows it, with VK's link and mention markup reduced to the visible label (empty for posts that are only media or a repost).
links	Full URLs of the links written into the text (VK often shows them shortened).
likes, reposts, views, comments	Counts as numbers; views is null on posts VK shows no counter for.
isPinned, isAd	Pinned to the top of the wall; marked as an advert.
communityId, communityName, communityUrl	The community whose wall it is on.
authorId, authorName	Who posted it: the community itself (negative id) or a person.
photos	URLs of the attached photos in their largest size.
attachments	Every other attachment as {type, title, url}: video, clip, link, article, doc, poll, audio.
repostOf	For reposts: the original post's url, postId, date, text, links, authorId, authorName, photos.

Comments (opt-in)

Field	Description
url, commentId, postId, postUrl	The comment's link and id and the post it belongs to.
date, text, links, likes	When it was written, its text (markup reduced to labels), the full URLs linked in it, and its like count.
replies	Number of replies in its thread (the replies themselves are not saved).
authorId, authorName, photos, communityId	Who wrote it, attached photo URLs, and the community.

Community profiles

Field	Description
url, communityId, name, screenName	The community's link, id and names.
communityType	page, group or event.
followers	Exact member count.
isVerified	VK's verified badge.
description, status, activity, website, photoUrl	Profile text, the status line, the topic VK lists, the website and the avatar.

Every row also has type and scrapedAt.

How much does it cost to scrape VK?

The Actor uses plain HTTP requests (no browser), reads 100 posts per request, and needs no proxy for VK, so runs are fast and cheap: the prefilled run takes about 5 seconds, and 600 posts with 3,600 comments took under 90 seconds. You pay per result row (post, comment or community profile); see the Pricing tab for the exact price. Inputs that give nothing are never billed.

Tips

• Use Max posts per community to control cost: 100 posts are one request to VK.
• Comments multiply the row count: 100 posts × 20 comments can be up to 2,100 rows. Leave them off when you only need post statistics.
• Set Max posts per community to 0 to get only community profiles, for example to compare follower counts across many communities.
• Schedule the Actor daily with a small limit to follow new posts.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

Do I need a VK account or access token? No. The Actor reads what VK shows to any visitor who is not signed in.

Which links don't work? Personal profiles (vk.com/id1 or a person's screen name) are out of scope and are skipped. Closed and private communities, banned or deleted communities, walls that are turned off, and deleted posts are skipped too. Each skipped link is listed with the reason in the FAILED_INPUTS record in the run's key-value store, and the run still succeeds. A run fails only if VK could not be reached for any link.

Are comment replies included? Only top-level comments are saved, oldest first; replies tells you how many replies each one has.

Is it legal to scrape VK? The Actor reads only public posts that VK shows to anyone without signing in. Even so, check VK's terms and the laws that apply to you before using the data, especially for commercial use.

Personal data: posts and community profiles describe public communities. Comments, and posts that people publish on a community's open wall, carry the author's name and VK id, which is personal data. The Actor never reads personal profiles. Only collect comments if you have a legitimate reason, and store and process them as data-protection laws such as the GDPR require.

Found a problem or need a custom field? Open an issue on the Issues tab. We read every report, and custom solutions are available on request.