VK Groups Scraper

🌐 What does VK Groups Scraper do?

Our unlimited VK Groups Scraper lets you supercharge your extraction of VK data. This powerful unofficial VK API will give you VK data at scale to be used in your own data projects, business reports, and as a basis for new applications. VK Groups Scraper allows you to scrape:

🔍 Group info: id, url, description, cover, activity, photo, status, contacts, address, site, created timestamp, title, screen_name, closed, verified

📊 Statistics for each group: members count

💸 How much does scraping VK Groups cost?

When it comes to scraping, it can be challenging to estimate the resources needed to extract data as use cases may vary significantly. That's why the best course of action is to run a test scrape with a small sample of input data and limited output. You’ll get your price per scrape, which you’ll then multiply by the number of scrapes you intend to do.

Watch this video for a few helpful tips. And don't forget that choosing a higher plan will save you money in the long run.

📚 How do I use VK Groups Scraper?

It’s quite easy: pick VK Groups Scraper, choose a group or search query to scrape, and click the Start button.

⬇️ Input example

You can scrape VK Groups either by Group URLs or by search Queries. These are the supported VK URL types ⬇️

• Groups: https://vk.com/mudakoff

Scraper collects public information without the use of accounts. If a group is not open without authorization to the account, the scraper will not be able to collect posts.

If this actor is run on the Apify platform, our simple interface should help you out in configuring all the parameters. This scraper follows the following

• mode - Scraping mode: by queries or by group URLs
• *groupUrls - scrapes specific VK URLs. You can scrape one or several URLs simultaneously.
• proxy - Select proxies to be used by crawler. Necessary to avoid getting banned from VK.
• searchQueries- scrapes groups by specific queries. You can scrape one or several Queries simultaneously.
• resultsPerQuery - sets up the amount of results you expect to be scraped per URL. Can be from 1 to 100 of results
• attemptsCount - indicates the limit of scraper retries in case of any errors.

1{
2    "attemptsCount": 3,
3    "groupUrls": [
4        "https://vk.com/mudakoff"
5    ],
6    "mode": "LINKS",
7    "proxy": {
8        "useApifyProxy": true
9    },
10    "resultsPerQuery": 100,
11    "searchQueries": [
12        "Авто"
13    ]
14}

⬆️ VK data output

You'll get a dataset containing the output of this actor. The length of the dataset will depend on the amount of results you've set/got. You can download those results as an Excel, HTML, XML, JSON, and CSV document.

Here's an example of scraped VK data you'll get if you decide to scrape group from url "https://vk.com/mudakoff".

1[
2  {
3    "id": "57846937",
4    "description": "MDK — это международное молодежное комьюнити, созданное весной 2011 года в виде безобидного паблика, высмеивающего попсовые тренды и человеческие пороки.\nИзначально сообщество называлось \"Для Мудаков\", но спустя полгода мы взяли более лаконичное \"MDK\", просто чтобы не смущать ханжей и рекламодателей. Из маленького контркультурного блога мы, на удивление самим себе, быстро стали самой посещаемой развлекательной площадкой в ВК.\n\nНе все шло так гладко, как кажется со стороны. Мы пережили с десяток блокировок, судебные процессы с генеральной прокуратурой, угрозы расправы от депутатов госдумы и преследования от различных религиозных организаций. Но алмазы тоже создаются под высоким давлением, и чем больше на нас давили, тем сильнее и популярней мы становились.\nЗа нами стоит многомиллионный легион молодежи, в чьих руках будущее этого мира. MDK — это стиль жизни, протест невежеству и голос правды.",
5    "members_count": 12005601,
6    "cover": "https://sun6-21.userapi.com/impf/WCfDWeG_HEj5c_nVWOKDRk_1UhZQVXAAHWGsxQ/UMCtrJx-hSM.jpg?size=1920x768&quality=95&crop=0,0,1920,767&sign=33d110ef3e8173b5bd0153bfb270dc88&c_uniq_tag=Rl1B3AXjsWKRpNk3DwI4zj0sWXsBh_6otXlBrdCz8Pg&type=cover_group",
7    "activity": "Блогер",
8    "photo": "https://sun6-22.userapi.com/s/v1/if2/j82ri8qK825ltQwNs2BtzIIQlOGK-HIIN8MuCeWAZKGTojdxITea_FcgTSfAbIoIaVOHWI-p-DVfCd0l09XmzeOk.jpg?quality=96&crop=78,191,808,808&as=50x50,100x100,200x200,400x400&ava=1&u=aJiHPYZ2NiLrKJsMwu5-ZeRiHUXEaERSW0mb7NLsYhY",
9    "status": "🌍🌎🌏",
10    "contacts": null,
11    "site": "https://vk.link/mudakoff",
12    "addresses": null,
13    "createTimestamp": 1378024220,
14    "title": "MDK",
15    "screen_name": "mudakoff",
16    "is_closed": 0,
17    "verified": 1,
18    "url": "https://vk.com/mudakoff"
19  }
20]

🔍 Want more tools for scraping VK?

Use our fast dedicated scrapers if you want to scrape specific VK data. Each of them is built particularly for the relevant VK scraping case be it groups, comments, videos, posts. Feel free to browse them:

🎙 VK Comments Scraper	🧭 VK Posts Scraper
📱 VK Groups Scraper	🎥 VK Videos Scraper

❓ FAQ

Is it legal to scrape VK?

It is legal to scrape VK to extract publicly available information, but you should be aware that the data extracted might contain personal data. Personal data is protected by GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers. You can also read our blog post on the legality of web scraping.

Why use VK Groups Scraper?

Scraping VK Groups will give you access to use that data in lots of different ways:

• 🔍 Track discussions about your brand, products, country, or city.
• 👥 Monitor your competitors and see how popular they really are, and how you can get a competitive edge.
• 🔎 Keep an eye on new trends, attitudes, and fashions as they emerge.
• 🧠 Use the data to train AI models or for academic research.
• 😊 Track sentiment to make sure your investments are protected.
• 🚫 Fight fake news by understanding the pattern of how misinformation spreads.
• ✈️ Explore discussions about travel destinations, services, and amenities, and take advantage of local knowledge.
• 💰 Analyze consumer habits and develop new products or target underdeveloped niches.

Can I integrate VK Groups Scraper with other apps?

Last but not least, VK Groups Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. You can integrate with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and more. Or you can use webhooks to carry out an action whenever an event occurs, e.g. get a notification whenever VK Groups Scraper successfully finishes a run.

Can I use API with VK Groups Scraper?

Yes. You can use the Apify API which gives you programmatic access to the Apify platform. The API is organized around RESTful HTTP endpoints that enable you to manage, schedule, and run Apify actors. The API also lets you access any datasets, monitor actor performance, fetch results, create and update versions, and more.

To access the API using Node.js, use the apify-client NPM package. To access the API using Python, use the apify-client PyPI package.

Check out the Apify API reference docs for full details or click on the API tab for code examples.

Your feedback

We’re always working on improving the performance of our Actors. So if you’ve got any technical feedback for Twitter Scraper or simply found a bug, please create an issue on the Actor’s Issues tab in Apify Console.