# VK Video Live Scraper (`sashaebashu/vkvideo-live-scraper`) Actor

Scrape VK Video Live (formerly WASD / VK Play Live): channel subscribers, verified status, whether a streamer is live now, current viewers, category, stream title, likes and views.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sashaebashu/vkvideo-live-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Sasha Ebashu](https://apify.com/sashaebashu) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## 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.

### Two modes

| Mode | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Channels** | The channels you list — by link or by name |
| **Discover** | Every channel on the platform, from the sitemap |

### 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. To keep only channels live at
  scan time, switch off *Include offline channels*.
- **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) or Discover (from the homepage). |
| **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. |

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Channels: the ones you list. Discover: every channel on the platform, enumerated from its sitemap.

## `channels` (type: `array`):

For Channels mode. A live.vkvideo.ru/<name> link or a bare channel name, one per line.

## `includeOffline` (type: `boolean`):

Keep channels that are not currently live (their subscriber stats are still returned).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Caps how many channels are written.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

A Russian residential address is required — the platform's domains do not resolve elsewhere and reject datacenter addresses.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "channels",
  "channels": [
    "kultprosvet"
  ],
  "includeOffline": true,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "RU"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `live` (type: `string`):

No description

## `full` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "channels": [
        "kultprosvet"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sashaebashu/vkvideo-live-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "channels": ["kultprosvet"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sashaebashu/vkvideo-live-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "channels": [
    "kultprosvet"
  ]
}' |
apify call sashaebashu/vkvideo-live-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sashaebashu/vkvideo-live-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/wTNoJmW5U78yCEGHr/builds/up6yhe8HAqw2jeXtj/openapi.json