VK Posts Scraper

🌐 What does VK Posts Scraper do?

Our unlimited VK Posts 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 Posts Scraper allows you to scrape:

🔍 Post info: url, date, text, image, video

📊 Statistics for each post: likes, reposts, views

💸 How much does scraping VK Posts 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 Posts Scraper?

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

⬇️ Input example

You can scrape VK Posts either by Group URLs or by Profile URLs. These are the supported VK URL types ⬇️

• Groups: https://vk.com/mudakoff
• Profiles: https://vk.com/durov

Scraper collects public information without the use of accounts. If a group or profile 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

• proxy - Select proxies to be used by crawler. Necessary to avoid getting banned from VK.
• startUrls- scrapes specific VK URLs. You can scrape one or several URLs simultaneously.
• resultsPerQuery - sets up the amount of results you expect to be scraped per URL. Can be from 1 to 1000 of results, so a thousand posts with all the surrounding info, for instance.
• attemptsCount - indicates the limit of scraper retries in case of any errors.

1{
2    "attemptsCount": 3,
3    "proxy": {
4        "useApifyProxy": true
5    },
6    "resultsPerQuery": 50,
7    "startUrls": [
8        "https://vk.com/mudakoff"
9    ]
10}

⬆️ 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". Result reduced to 1 comment for example

1[
2  {
3    "group": "https://vk.com/mudakoff",
4    "date": "yesterday at 10:46 am",
5    "url": "https://vk.com/wall-57846937_45793136",
6    "likes": "2.1K",
7    "reposts": "2.9K",
8    "views": "360K views",
9    "text": "Джейсон Стетхем снова выдал базу",
10    "image": "https://sun6-23.userapi.com/impg/zXX2u53_jLlG9Hg_-_MXaVewefhrVjwQTiVthw/5jheIC3QLw0.jpg?size=646x807&quality=95&sign=9fd8adf94ddafc7bff5157e3bcc716fc&c_uniq_tag=MlEvTZEtEaO-IB7xDZ5OZJskSNUNqV4hfMmN3w3c2dE&type=album",
11    "video": null
12  }
13]

🔍 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 Posts Scraper?

Scraping VK Posts will give you access to more than 10 million Posts posted every day. You can 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 Posts Scraper with other apps?

Last but not least, VK Posts 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 Posts Scraper successfully finishes a run.

Can I use API with VK Posts 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.