VK Scraper - Profiles, Communities, Posts, Comments and Monitoring

Collect public VK profiles, communities, wall posts, post details, comments, audience counters, attachments, and visible media summaries in one structured dataset.

• Extract public user and community identity, descriptions, status, verification, profile images, and visible counters
• Paginate public walls and preserve post text, dates, authors, views, likes, comments, reposts, and reactions
• Retrieve individual wall posts and public top-level comments by URL or wallOWNER_POST identifier
• Preserve available attachments and enrich profiles with visible subscriptions, follower samples, covers, and media summaries
• Monitor public walls and save only new or changed posts on scheduled runs
• Process multiple screen names, profile URLs, community URLs, owner IDs, and post URLs in one run
• No VK account, access token, cookies, browser, or user-supplied proxy is required; requests use the built-in Apify Residential Proxy
• Export results to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or access them through the Apify API

What can you do with this Actor?

Mode / action	Input	Output	Best for
walls	Public user or community screen names and URLs	Paginated public post rows	Content research, publishing analysis, and monitoring
owners	Public screen names, profile URLs, community URLs, or owner IDs	Normalized owner rows	Profile and community intelligence
posts	Public wall post URLs or wallOWNER_POST identifiers	Complete public post rows	Post-level content, media, and engagement analysis
comments	Public wall post URLs or identifiers	Public top-level comment rows	Audience feedback and discussion research
profileMedia	Public user or community targets	owner rows enriched with visible media summaries	Public content inventory and profile auditing
auto	Mixed public profile, community, and wall-post URLs in startUrls	owner or post rows selected from each URL	Batch processing mixed known targets
monitor	Public owner targets plus a stable monitorKey	Only new or new-and-changed post rows	Scheduled wall monitoring

Choose one mode per run. Multiple public targets can be processed together; walls can optionally add public top-level comments to the same Results dataset.

Quick start

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free.
2. Keep Walls selected or choose another workflow.
3. Enter public screen names, profile/community URLs, owner IDs, or wall-post URLs and set the result limit.
4. Click Start.
5. Preview the single Results table or download it in your preferred format.

The default input collects recent public wall posts from durov and is ready to run.

Input examples

Public wall

{
  "mode": "walls",
  "targets": [
    "durov"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeComments": false,
  "country": "US"
}

Owner details

{
  "mode": "owners",
  "targets": [
    "durov",
    "team"
  ],
  "country": "US"
}

Post details

{
  "mode": "posts",
  "targets": [
    "https://vk.ru/wall1_456"
  ],
  "country": "US"
}

Public comments

{
  "mode": "comments",
  "targets": [
    "wall1_456"
  ],
  "maxCommentsPerPost": 100,
  "country": "US"
}

Monitor new wall posts

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "targets": [
    "durov"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "monitorKey": "durov-daily",
  "country": "US"
}

Profile media summary

{
  "mode": "profileMedia",
  "targets": [
    "durov"
  ],
  "country": "US"
}

Auto-detect mixed public URLs

{
  "mode": "auto",
  "startUrls": [
    "https://vk.ru/durov",
    "https://vk.ru/wall1_456"
  ],
  "country": "US"
}

maxItems limits retained rows per target. maxCommentsPerPost applies separately to each post when comment extraction is enabled.

Complete output examples

Every result row contains exactly 66 top-level fields. The same complete key set makes mixed result types predictable in JSON exports and keeps every field visible in the single Results view.

Complete owner row — 66 top-level fields

{
  "recordType": "owner",
  "sourceMode": "owners",
  "sourceTarget": "example-target",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "sourceEndpoints": [],
  "ownerId": "123456",
  "ownerType": null,
  "screenName": null,
  "firstName": null,
  "lastName": null,
  "name": "Example public record",
  "description": "Example public content",
  "status": "Example public content",
  "profileUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "birthDate": null,
  "city": {},
  "country": {},
  "sex": 0,
  "verified": false,
  "isClosed": false,
  "online": false,
  "followersCount": 0,
  "followingCount": 0,
  "friendsCount": 0,
  "photosCount": 0,
  "videosCount": 0,
  "clipsCount": 0,
  "articlesCount": 0,
  "giftsCount": 0,
  "site": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "occupation": {},
  "counters": {},
  "profilePhotoUrl": "https://cdn.example.com/image.jpg",
  "cover": {},
  "subscriptions": {},
  "followerSample": [],
  "mediaOverview": {},
  "postId": "example-id",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "text": "Example public content",
  "textHtml": "Example public content",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "editedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "authorId": "123456",
  "authorName": "Example public record",
  "authorUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "postType": null,
  "viewsCount": 0,
  "likesCount": 0,
  "commentsCount": 0,
  "repostsCount": 0,
  "reactions": {},
  "attachments": [],
  "copyHistory": [],
  "commentId": "123456",
  "parentCommentId": "123456",
  "replyToUser": "123456",
  "dateLabel": null,
  "attributes": {},
  "temporaryMediaUrlsIncluded": false,
  "isPartial": false,
  "monitorStatus": null,
  "changedFields": [],
  "previousCapturedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "capturedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "raw": {}
}

Complete post row — 66 top-level fields

{
  "recordType": "post",
  "sourceMode": "walls",
  "sourceTarget": "example-target",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "sourceEndpoints": [],
  "ownerId": "123456",
  "ownerType": null,
  "screenName": null,
  "firstName": null,
  "lastName": null,
  "name": "Example public record",
  "description": "Example public content",
  "status": "Example public content",
  "profileUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "birthDate": null,
  "city": {},
  "country": {},
  "sex": 0,
  "verified": false,
  "isClosed": false,
  "online": false,
  "followersCount": 0,
  "followingCount": 0,
  "friendsCount": 0,
  "photosCount": 0,
  "videosCount": 0,
  "clipsCount": 0,
  "articlesCount": 0,
  "giftsCount": 0,
  "site": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "occupation": {},
  "counters": {},
  "profilePhotoUrl": "https://cdn.example.com/image.jpg",
  "cover": {},
  "subscriptions": {},
  "followerSample": [],
  "mediaOverview": {},
  "postId": "example-id",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "text": "Example public content",
  "textHtml": "Example public content",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "editedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "authorId": "123456",
  "authorName": "Example public record",
  "authorUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "postType": null,
  "viewsCount": 0,
  "likesCount": 0,
  "commentsCount": 0,
  "repostsCount": 0,
  "reactions": {},
  "attachments": [],
  "copyHistory": [],
  "commentId": "123456",
  "parentCommentId": "123456",
  "replyToUser": "123456",
  "dateLabel": null,
  "attributes": {},
  "temporaryMediaUrlsIncluded": false,
  "isPartial": false,
  "monitorStatus": null,
  "changedFields": [],
  "previousCapturedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "capturedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "raw": {}
}

Complete comment row — 66 top-level fields

{
  "recordType": "comment",
  "sourceMode": "comments",
  "sourceTarget": "example-target",
  "sourceUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "sourceEndpoints": [],
  "ownerId": "123456",
  "ownerType": null,
  "screenName": null,
  "firstName": null,
  "lastName": null,
  "name": "Example public record",
  "description": "Example public content",
  "status": "Example public content",
  "profileUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "birthDate": null,
  "city": {},
  "country": {},
  "sex": 0,
  "verified": false,
  "isClosed": false,
  "online": false,
  "followersCount": 0,
  "followingCount": 0,
  "friendsCount": 0,
  "photosCount": 0,
  "videosCount": 0,
  "clipsCount": 0,
  "articlesCount": 0,
  "giftsCount": 0,
  "site": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "occupation": {},
  "counters": {},
  "profilePhotoUrl": "https://cdn.example.com/image.jpg",
  "cover": {},
  "subscriptions": {},
  "followerSample": [],
  "mediaOverview": {},
  "postId": "example-id",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "text": "Example public content",
  "textHtml": "Example public content",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "editedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "authorId": "123456",
  "authorName": "Example public record",
  "authorUrl": "https://example.com/public-result",
  "postType": null,
  "viewsCount": 0,
  "likesCount": 0,
  "commentsCount": 0,
  "repostsCount": 0,
  "reactions": {},
  "attachments": [],
  "copyHistory": [],
  "commentId": "123456",
  "parentCommentId": "123456",
  "replyToUser": "123456",
  "dateLabel": null,
  "attributes": {},
  "temporaryMediaUrlsIncluded": false,
  "isPartial": false,
  "monitorStatus": null,
  "changedFields": [],
  "previousCapturedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "capturedAt": "2026-08-13T12:00:00Z",
  "raw": {}
}

What data can you extract?

Category	Fields
Source and capture	recordType, sourceMode, sourceTarget, sourceUrl, sourceEndpoints, capturedAt
Owner identity	ownerId, ownerType, screenName, firstName, lastName, name, profileUrl
Public profile data	description, status, birthDate, city, country, sex, verified, isClosed, online, site, occupation
Audience and content counts	followersCount, followingCount, friendsCount, photosCount, videosCount, clipsCount, articlesCount, giftsCount, counters
Profile media and relationships	profilePhotoUrl, cover, subscriptions, followerSample, mediaOverview
Posts and engagement	postId, canonicalUrl, text, textHtml, publishedAt, editedAt, authorId, authorName, authorUrl, postType, viewsCount, likesCount, commentsCount, repostsCount, reactions, attachments, copyHistory
Comments	commentId, parentCommentId, replyToUser, dateLabel, attributes
Monitoring and diagnostics	temporaryMediaUrlsIncluded, isPartial, monitorStatus, changedFields, previousCapturedAt, raw

Nested fields such as city, country, occupation, counters, cover, subscriptions, followerSample, mediaOverview, reactions, attachments, copyHistory, attributes, and optional raw retain VK's public source structure. Their nested keys are source-controlled and can change; the 66 top-level keys above are fixed by the Actor.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
mode	string	No	"walls"	auto, owners, walls, posts, comments, profileMedia, or monitor.
targets	string[]	In all target modes	["durov"]	Public screen names, profile/community URLs, wall-post URLs, or wallOWNER_POST identifiers.
startUrls	string[]	In auto	[]	Mixed public profile, community, or wall-post URLs.
maxItems	integer	No	100	Maximum retained rows per target, from 1 to 10,000.
maxPages	integer	No	20	Maximum public wall pages per owner, from 1 to 500.
maxCommentsPerPost	integer	No	100	Maximum top-level comments per post, from 0 to 10,000; 0 skips them.
includeComments	boolean	No	false	Fetch public top-level comments for wall posts with extra requests.
includeAttachments	boolean	No	true	Preserve public attachment objects on post rows.
includeTemporaryMediaUrls	boolean	No	true	Preserve observed public media URLs even when their CDN lifetime may be limited.
publishedAfter	string	No	""	Optional ISO date/timestamp lower bound applied after extraction.
publishedBefore	string	No	""	Optional ISO date/timestamp upper bound applied after extraction.
maxConcurrency	integer	No	3	Concurrent public targets, from 1 to 10.
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	No	60	Per-request timeout in seconds, from 15 to 120.
country	string	No	"US"	Two-letter ISO country used for the internal residential proxy region.
includeRaw	boolean	No	false	Include the redacted public source object; increases dataset size.
monitorMode	string	No	"off"	off, onlyNew, or newAndChanged.
monitorKey	string	With monitoring	"default"	Stable comparison-state namespace for recurring runs.
maxSessionRotations	integer	No	3	Fresh residential sessions tried after blocks, from 1 to 6.

Pay-per-event result types

Event	Charged when
owner-result	One owner row is accepted by the Dataset.
post-result	One post row is accepted by the Dataset.
comment-result	One comment row is accepted by the Dataset.

The Actor does not emit a paid error event. Failed targets are counted by category in RUN_SUMMARY; successful targets continue. Actual event prices are shown on the Actor's Pricing tab.

Use cases

Profile and community intelligence

Collect public identity, descriptions, audience counters, profile imagery, visible subscriptions, follower samples, and media summaries.

Content and engagement analysis

Export wall posts with text, timestamps, authors, reactions, views, likes, comments, reposts, attachments, and repost chains.

Public comment research

Collect top-level public comments for feedback analysis, community research, and moderation dashboards outside VK.

Monitoring and data pipelines

Schedule recurring runs and send new rows through webhooks to Google Sheets, Airtable, Make, Zapier, n8n, Airbyte, or a data warehouse.

Performance and cost

Direct HTTP generally uses substantially less memory and bandwidth than launching a browser, but source response size, retries, optional enrichment, raw objects, and pagination determine actual cost. Start with a small limit, inspect the Dataset and RUN_SUMMARY, then scale. Lower concurrency is usually more reliable on stricter public sites.

API usage

Replace YOUR_USERNAME with the publishing Apify username after publication:

curl -X POST \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~vk-public-scraper/runs?token=APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "mode": "walls",
    "targets": ["durov"],
    "maxItems": 100,
    "country": "US"
  }'

The request body is the same JSON used in Apify Console. Read results from the run's default Dataset or use the output link that opens view=overview.

Best for / not for

Best for: public profile and community details, known wall targets, post enrichment, public top-level comments, media summaries, and scheduled monitoring.

Not for: keyword search, private or login-only content, complete nested reply trees, authenticated API methods, account actions, or permanent media hosting.

Limits and good to know

VK keyword search, private profiles and communities, nested reply expansion, login-only content, and authenticated API methods are intentionally excluded. Public page payloads and endpoints can differ by owner type and region.

A missing public value is returned as null or an empty array. One failed input does not create a frightening error row in Results. If every input fails, the run fails after writing diagnostic counts to RUN_SUMMARY.

Frequently asked questions

What input should I provide?

Use a public screen name, profile/community URL, numeric owner ID, full wall-post URL, or wallOWNER_POST identifier that matches the selected mode.

How many results can I extract?

maxItems accepts 1-10,000 per target, maxPages accepts 1-500, and maxCommentsPerPost accepts 0-10,000 per post. Public availability and VK pagination can return fewer rows.

Can I process multiple inputs?

Yes. Add multiple public targets or URLs; target failures are isolated and successful targets continue.

Can I schedule recurring runs?

Yes. Use Apify schedules with mode: "monitor", a stable monitorKey, and webhooks for downstream notifications.

Does this Actor open a browser?

No. Runtime extraction uses direct HTTP only and contains no Playwright, Selenium, Chromium, or browser installation.

Do I need an account or cookies?

No. The supported modes use public pages and anonymous endpoints. Cookies or authorization values from research captures are never embedded in the release.

Do I need to configure a proxy?

No. On Apify, the Actor creates a Residential Proxy configuration internally and does not expose proxy settings in Input. Local developers may privately point the documented test-only environment variable at a proxy file; that variable is not an Actor input and is ignored on the platform.

Why are some fields empty?

The single Results view covers every result type. Fields that do not apply to a row remain empty, while the complete key set is preserved in JSON.

Responsible use

Collect only public VK data you are permitted to process. Respect applicable law, privacy rights, platform terms, rate limits, and intellectual-property rights. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by VK.

Support

For a reproducible issue, include the Apify run ID, mode, a non-sensitive public target, expected result, and actual result. Never send account credentials, cookies, access tokens, proxy passwords, or private content.

Local development

For local read-only smoke tests only, VK_TEST_PROXY_FILE may point to a private file containing one login:password@host:port proxy per line. The file is never read on Apify and must not be committed.