VK Profile Scraper – Public User Data

Collect public VK user-profile information from screen names. VK Profile Scraper returns identity, biography, audience and content counts, pictures, published occupation or education details, and contact fields when the profile exposes them.

Use it to enrich a known account list, organize public creator records, or compare profile changes across runs. Each unique processed screen name produces one row with the same fields in the table and JSON export.

At a glance	Details
📥 Input	Plain VK user screen names, such as durov
📤 Output	Identity, bio, counts, images, account indicators, and published profile details
🔐 Login required	No VK credentials or cookies
⚡ Processing	Up to 5 requests concurrently with automatic retries
💾 Delivery	One row per unique processed screen name

What the VK profile scraper extracts 👤

Available public profile fields include:

• ID, screen name, display name, profile URL, and name components
• Biography, status text, website, interests, and other published profile text
• City, country, hometown, and birthday when shown
• Follower, friend, subscription, and content counts
• Avatar sizes, cover images, and image dimensions
• Verification, privacy, deactivation, and other account indicators
• Public occupation, career, education, and related profile sections
• Published phone and connected-account fields
• Online or last-seen information when supplied by VK

Field availability varies by profile and public access. Counts describe the account; they do not include lists of followers, friends, or posts.

How to scrape VK profile details 🚀

1. Add plain user screen names such as durov.
2. Omit @ and full VK profile URLs.
3. Start the Actor and review success and failed rows.
4. Export the results or connect the dataset to your enrichment workflow.

{
  "inputList": [
    "durov"
  ]
}

Duplicate screen names are processed once, ignoring letter case. The Actor checks that the resolved target is a user profile; community names belong in Community Details Scraper.

VK profile fields and output 📦

Field group	Included data
Identity	IDs, names, profile URL, avatar, and cover images
Public profile text	Bio, status, interests, website, and published location or birthday
Audience and content	Followers, friends, subscriptions, posts, and media counts
Account context	Privacy, verification, deactivation, last-seen, and access indicators
Background	Occupation and available career, education, personal, or related sections
Published connections	Connected accounts and public phone fields

Complete illustrative output item with all 92 fields. The profile and values below are fictional examples, not a live result:

{
  "input": "sample.creator",
  "status": "success",
  "avatar_url": "https://example.com/avatar-400.jpg",
  "profile_url": "https://vk.ru/sample.creator",
  "id": 123456789,
  "username": "sample.creator",
  "name": "Alex Morgan",
  "first_name": "Alex",
  "last_name": "Morgan",
  "nickname": "",
  "maiden_name": "",
  "sex": 0,
  "sex_name": "",
  "birth_date": "",
  "city.id": 1,
  "city.name": "Moscow",
  "country.id": 1,
  "country.name": "Russia",
  "home_town": "",
  "profile_status": "Sharing photography notes",
  "about": "Photographer and workshop organizer.",
  "activities": "Photography workshops",
  "interests": "Architecture, photography",
  "music": "",
  "movies": "",
  "tv": "",
  "books": "",
  "games": "",
  "quotes": "",
  "website": "https://example.com/portfolio",
  "avatar_thumbnails.size": [
    "100",
    "400_orig"
  ],
  "avatar_thumbnails.url": [
    "https://example.com/avatar-100.jpg",
    "https://example.com/avatar-400.jpg"
  ],
  "cover_url": "https://example.com/cover.jpg",
  "cover_images.url": [
    "https://example.com/cover.jpg"
  ],
  "cover_images.width": [
    1590
  ],
  "cover_images.height": [
    400
  ],
  "followers_count": 4200,
  "friends_count": 280,
  "subscriptions_count": 46,
  "posts_count": 125,
  "photos_count": 340,
  "videos_count": 18,
  "clips_count": 7,
  "audios_count": 0,
  "albums_count": 8,
  "gifts_count": 0,
  "articles_count": 4,
  "mutual_friends_count": 0,
  "online": false,
  "online_mobile": false,
  "last_seen_at": 1788868800,
  "last_seen_date": "2026-09-08T12:00:00Z",
  "last_seen_platform": 7,
  "is_verified": false,
  "is_trending": false,
  "is_private": false,
  "is_deactivated": false,
  "deactivated_reason": "",
  "is_memorial": false,
  "is_service": false,
  "is_nft": false,
  "is_no_index": false,
  "friend_status": 0,
  "can_access_closed": true,
  "can_message": false,
  "can_send_friend_request": false,
  "can_post": false,
  "can_see_all_posts": true,
  "can_see_audio": false,
  "occupation.id": 0,
  "occupation.name": "Independent photographer",
  "occupation.type": "work",
  "career.path": [
    "/0/company",
    "/0/position",
    "/0/from"
  ],
  "career.value": [
    "Example Studio",
    "Photographer",
    2021
  ],
  "schools.path": [],
  "schools.value": [],
  "universities.path": [
    "/0/name",
    "/0/graduation"
  ],
  "universities.value": [
    "Example Institute of Design",
    2020
  ],
  "military.path": [],
  "military.value": [],
  "relatives.path": [],
  "relatives.value": [],
  "personal.path": [],
  "personal.value": [],
  "connections.skype": "",
  "connections.facebook": "",
  "connections.facebook_name": "",
  "connections.twitter": "",
  "connections.instagram": "sample.creator",
  "connections.livejournal": "",
  "contacts.mobile_phone": "",
  "contacts.home_phone": ""
}

Each profile occupies one row in one table. JSON uses the same literal names, such as city.name. Avatar and cover lists match by position within their respective groups.

Variable profile sections use paired lists such as career.path and career.value. A path like /0/company identifies the company field in the first career entry; its value is at the same position in the value list. The same pattern covers schools, universities, military, relatives, and personal fields without placing JSON objects inside a column.

Successful rows preserve empty strings, empty lists, 0, and false for omitted values. A zero count or false indicator is not always a confirmed fact about the account. Failed rows retain input, set status to failed, and use null for the profile-data fields.

Input requirements and profile coverage ⚙️

Parameter	Type	Required	Rules
inputList	array of strings	Yes	At least one user screen name

Screen names must contain 1–64 letters, digits, underscores, or periods. Surrounding whitespace is trimmed and names are normalized to lowercase. Accepted: durov. Rejected: @durov, https://vk.ru/durov, or a name containing spaces.

The resolved target must be a VK user. Closed or restricted profiles may expose limited public details or be unavailable. Access and relationship indicators reflect the public response; they do not authorize actions on the account.

No pagination setting is needed. Profile Posts Scraper collects wall content when you need individual post rows.

VK profile data use cases 🎯

Public account enrichment

Add profile names, biographies, websites, pictures, and publicly supplied background details to a known account list.

Creator research

Compare audience counts, activity descriptions, interests, and visible content totals while keeping missing values distinct from confirmed measurements.

Profile-change reporting

Schedule repeat runs and compare public names, status text, websites, images, and counts in your own database.

Cross-platform profile organization

Use published connected-account fields and canonical VK URLs to organize public profile records for further review.

Pricing and billable profile rows 💰

Check the Actor's Pricing tab for the current charging model and rate.

Under dataset-item pricing, each saved success or failed row can count as one result. Duplicate screen names are normally processed once, and automatic retries do not independently create additional rows.

Career entries, images, and other repeated details stay in the profile row. They are not separate dataset items.

VK profile API and integrations 🔌

Use the Actor ID from the API tab for $ACTOR_ID and your Apify token for $APIFY_TOKEN:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/$ACTOR_ID/runs?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"inputList":["durov"]}'

Trigger runs with REST, Apify client libraries, schedules, or webhooks. Export the default dataset to a spreadsheet, Make, Zapier, a public-profile database, or your own reporting workflow.

Reliability and public profile limits ⚠️

The Actor processes up to five requests concurrently and retries temporary request failures. Invalid screen names, unavailable profiles, or a community submitted as a user produce failed rows while other inputs continue.

VK may omit counts, last-seen information, contact fields, or background sections. Last-seen values are returned only when exposed, and missing counts can default to zero. Public privacy and access indicators are descriptive fields, not a way to access hidden content.

Profile names and availability can change between runs. Image URLs can expire, and the Actor returns image references without downloading the files. A dataset-storage failure can stop a run.

Frequently asked questions ❓

Can I paste a VK profile URL?

Enter only the screen name. For https://vk.ru/durov, use durov.

Can it extract a community profile?

Use Community Details Scraper for groups, public pages, and event communities. This Actor expects a user profile.

Does it return public contact details?

Phone and connected-account fields are included when VK supplies them publicly. The Actor does not discover hidden contact information.

Does it return friends or followers individually?

No. It returns aggregate counts and profile details. It does not collect friend or follower lists.

Why is a count zero on a successful profile?

VK may have reported zero or omitted the value. Missing numeric values default to zero, so compare them with the rest of the profile before drawing conclusions.

How do I read career or education values?

Match each path to the value at the same list position. Numbers within paths identify entries; for example, /0/company belongs to the first career entry.

Support, responsible use, and related actors 🛟

For a reproducible issue, share the run ID, a safe public screen name, and the expected behavior through the Actor's support channel.

Use public profile data in accordance with applicable privacy, contractual, copyright, and platform requirements.