VK Video Live Scraper — Streamers, Subscribers & Live Status

VK Video Live (formerly WASD, then VK Play Live, now at live.vkvideo.ru) is VK's live-streaming platform — the Russian Twitch. This Actor reads a channel: its subscriber count, whether the streamer is live right now, the current viewer count, the category being streamed, the stream title, likes and views.

No key, no login.

What you get per channel

Channel	Name, slug, owner id, verified-streamer flag, subscriber count, post count, chat on/off, adult flag, social links
Live now	Whether it is online, the stream title and category, current viewers, total views and likes, when it started

Offline channels still return their subscriber and profile stats, so the Actor works as a channel directory as well as a live monitor.

Three modes

Mode	What it does
Channels	The channels you list — by link or by name
Live now	Every stream on air right now, busiest first
Discover	Live channels first, then every channel on the platform

Notes & limits

Properties of the source, measured rather than assumed:

• A Russian residential address is required. The platform's domains do not resolve outside Russia and reject datacenter addresses, so the proxy must be Residential, country RU — this is the default. Datacenter and unblocking proxies do not reach it.
• Residential exits are retried. Russian residential IPs drop connections in bursts, so every request is retried over fresh exits until it goes through. A run is therefore steady rather than fast; give it room.
• Discover walks the platform's sitemap — roughly 240,000 channels across 24 index files. It enumerates the whole platform, which makes it a bulk/research tool; the order is the sitemap's own (by channel id, not popularity), so early results are ordinary channels rather than the biggest. For targeted monitoring of specific streamers, use Channels mode.
• Live now mode returns every stream on air at the moment, busiest first — the platform's own live catalogue, hundreds of streams at peak hours, with viewers, category and title for each. Discover with Include offline channels off does the same.
• Multi-stream channels are read correctly. A channel can broadcast in several slots at once (sports channels often do); the busiest live stream is reported, plus liveStreams (how many are on air) and totalViewers (their combined audience).
• Live figures are a snapshot at the moment of the request — viewers and likes move second to second. Run on a schedule to track them over time.
• Timestamps are ISO-8601, derived from the platform's Unix values.
• The Actor honours your Maximum cost per run and stops when the cap is reached.

Input

Field	What it does
What to scrape	Channels (your list), Live now, or Discover (whole platform).
Channels	live.vkvideo.ru/<name> links or bare names, one per line.
Include offline channels	Keep channels that are not live now (stats still returned).
Maximum channels	Caps how many channels are written.
Proxy	Residential Russia — required, and the default.