VK
- Jay Krall
- Zak Fareed
- Kaylin Linke
Source Vitals
Source Attributes | Description |
|---|---|
Data Collection Method | real-time firehose |
Geographic Coverage | primarily Russia & Eastern Europe |
Key Use Cases | product & market research; company reputation analysis; influencer identification |
Delivery Methods | full stream; filtered stream; search API |
Data Dictionary
VK Field | Message Types | Description |
|---|---|---|
Access | Posts, Shares & Comments | Access level of the message. Always set to 'public'. |
ActionTime | Posts & Shares Only | Timestamp for when the user action was taken, including creation, update or deletion of a post, share or comment. |
Attachments - Attachment - Comments | Posts & Shares Only | Number of comments for a post or share. |
Attachments - Attachment - Date | Posts, Shares & Comments | Creation date of the attached link, video, photo or album. |
Attachments - Attachment - Description | Posts, Shares & Comments | Text description of the attached link, video, photo or album. |
Attachments - Attachment - Duration | Posts, Shares & Comments | Duration of an attachment video. |
Attachments - Attachment - Id | Posts, Shares & Comments | Numeric ID of an attachment photo or video. |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Caption | Posts, Shares & Comments | Caption text for a shared link |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Description | Posts, Shares & Comments | Description of an attached link |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - IsExternal | Posts, Shares & Comments | Boolean flag indicating whether a shared link is internal to VK. |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - AlbumId | Posts, Shares & Comments | Photo album ID |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - Date | Posts, Shares & Comments | Photo date in Unix timestamp format |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - Height | Posts, Shares & Comments | Photo height in pixels |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - Id | Posts, Shares & Comments | Numeric photo ID |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - OwnerId | Posts, Shares & Comments | Photo owner ID |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - Photo130 | Posts, Shares & Comments | Photo image URL at 130 pixels wide |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - Photo604 | Posts, Shares & Comments | Photo image URL at 604 pixels wide |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - Photo75 | Posts, Shares & Comments | Photo image URL at 75 pixels wide |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - Text | Posts, Shares & Comments | Text description of a photo image URL |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Photo - Width | Posts, Shares & Comments | Photo width in pixels |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Target | Posts, Shares & Comments | Value is either "internal" or "external" depending on link type. |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Title | Posts, Shares & Comments | Title of an attached link |
Attachments - Attachment - Link - Url | Posts, Shares & Comments | Shared link URL |
Attachments - Attachment - Title | Posts, Shares & Comments | Title of attached link, video, photo or album |
Attachments - Attachment - Type | Posts, Shares & Comments | Attachment type such as link, video, photo, album, market, note*, photos_list, or podcast (*doesn't appear often in stream) |
Attachments - Attachment - Views | Posts, Shares & Comments | Number of views of an attached video or photo |
AuthorId | Posts, Shares & Comments | Numeric VK author ID |
Author - Platform | Posts, Shares & Comments | platform (integer) – content creation platform. Possible values: |
AuthorUrl | Posts, Shares & Comments | Author profile URL |
CreationTime | Posts, Shares & Comments | Creation timestamp for the message. |
EventId - CommentId | Comments Only | Appears on a comment message with an ID corresponding to the message itself. |
EventId - PostId | Posts, Shares & Comments | Unique, numeric post ID |
EventId - PostOwnerId | Posts, Shares & Comments | Post owner ID. For shared posts, refers to the shared post's owner. |
EventType | Posts, Shares & Comments | Type of message, i.e. 'post', 'share' or 'comment' |
ExtKey | Posts, Shares & Comments | Json contains post owner ID, post ID and comment ID |
Geo | Posts | Json object containing geo coordinates and metadata for a place check-in. Example: "geo": {
"coordinates": "56.995972942424 60.605288300943",
"place": {
"checkins": 7,
"city": 1154688,
"country": 1,
"created": 1530211122,
"icon": "https://vk.com/images/places/place.png",
"id": 112666463,
"latitude": 56.995962,
"longitude": 60.605264,
"title": "Балтым",
"type": 33
},},
|
Id | Posts, Shares & Comments | Numeric ID of the post, share or comment |
Inserted | Posts, Shares & Comments | Timestamp when the message was inserted into the Socialgist search index. |
LastModified | Posts, Shares & Comments | Last modified timestamp of the message. Message updates and deletes are processed in the search index. |
Published | Posts, Shares & Comments | Timestamp when the post, share or comment was published. |
Text | Posts, Shares & Comments | Body text of the message |
Url | Posts, Shares & Comments | URL of the post, share or comment |
Example Messages
Post
{
"code": 100,
"event": {
"access": "public",
"action": "new",
"action_time": 1723214106,
"attachments": [
{
"photo": {
"access_key": "ce4aa1cf916d07f9e3",
"album_id": -7,
"date": 1723214098,
"height": 487,
"id": 457239019,
"owner_id": 872559029,
"photo_1280": "https://sun9-9.userapi.com/impg/AjUYeJh5RmRgTuF_ezhnDcfQWGGhJsh9qbUE-g/uf9DCC_HBKM.jpg?size=390x487&quality=95&sign=5eab615c629335f79f09e3ed5cee1c71&c_uniq_tag=EWFjsUdhVYYirtVWFANJhv1vG3NUrJNI5f8hfOeven4&type=album",
"photo_130": "https://sun9-9.userapi.com/impg/AjUYeJh5RmRgTuF_ezhnDcfQWGGhJsh9qbUE-g/uf9DCC_HBKM.jpg?size=104x130&quality=95&sign=a3f30e3a6c22d6fa4e62b6f942f6313b&c_uniq_tag=i0i9GmMdWA_Be3kUXt4rJXoCgWrLLrP7wr3G_ZWiGWY&type=album",
"photo_2560": "https://sun9-9.userapi.com/impg/AjUYeJh5RmRgTuF_ezhnDcfQWGGhJsh9qbUE-g/uf9DCC_HBKM.jpg?size=390x487&quality=95&sign=5eab615c629335f79f09e3ed5cee1c71&c_uniq_tag=EWFjsUdhVYYirtVWFANJhv1vG3NUrJNI5f8hfOeven4&type=album",
"photo_604": "https://sun9-9.userapi.com/impg/AjUYeJh5RmRgTuF_ezhnDcfQWGGhJsh9qbUE-g/uf9DCC_HBKM.jpg?size=390x487&quality=95&sign=5eab615c629335f79f09e3ed5cee1c71&c_uniq_tag=EWFjsUdhVYYirtVWFANJhv1vG3NUrJNI5f8hfOeven4&type=album",
"photo_75": "https://sun9-9.userapi.com/impg/AjUYeJh5RmRgTuF_ezhnDcfQWGGhJsh9qbUE-g/uf9DCC_HBKM.jpg?size=60x75&quality=95&sign=6093362755373c72f15afae560ec0698&c_uniq_tag=WIPmcmiwHYzJXhia8jbuo_pC65Cokl2EtmmQw5lC7h8&type=album",
"photo_807": "https://sun9-9.userapi.com/impg/AjUYeJh5RmRgTuF_ezhnDcfQWGGhJsh9qbUE-g/uf9DCC_HBKM.jpg?size=390x487&quality=95&sign=5eab615c629335f79f09e3ed5cee1c71&c_uniq_tag=EWFjsUdhVYYirtVWFANJhv1vG3NUrJNI5f8hfOeven4&type=album",
"post_id": 2,
"text": "",
"web_view_token": "0de7dd0d935dc43b64",
"width": 390
},
"style": "full",
"type": "photo"
}
],
"author": {
"author_url": "https://vk.com/id872559029",
"id": 872559029,
"platform": 4
},
"creation_time": 1723214106,
"event_id": {
"post_owner_id": 872559029,
"post_id": 2
},
"event_type": "post",
"event_url": "https://vk.com/wall872559029_2",
"full_text": " ",
"shared_post_creation_time": 0,
"text": ""
},
"socialgist_metadata": {
"language": "unknown"
}
} |
Comment
{
"code": 100,
"event": {
"access": "public",
"action": "new",
"action_time": 1723215011,
"author": {
"author_url": "https://vk.com/id447478359",
"id": 447478359
},
"creation_time": 1723215011,
"event_id": {
"post_owner_id": -20089197,
"post_id": 15179,
"comment_id": 19494
},
"event_type": "comment",
"event_url": "https://vk.com/wall-20089197_15179?reply=19494",
"full_text": " И мне очень понравилось как в серии обманщики мужик морячок и медведь сделали при бабе вид что медведь их съел а на самом деле мужик и морячок прятались под столом они пили самогон а медведь ел мед",
"text": "И мне очень понравилось как в серии обманщики мужик морячок и медведь сделали при бабе вид что медведь их съел а на самом деле мужик и морячок прятались под столом они пили самогон а медведь ел мед"
},
"socialgist_metadata": {
"language": "ru"
}
} |
Like
{
"code": 100,
"event": {
"access": "private",
"action": "new",
"action_time": 1515705835,
"author": {},
"event_id": {
"post_owner_id": 84198769,
"post_id": 74237
},
"event_type": "like"
}
} |
Share
{
"code": 100,
"event": {
"access": "public",
"action": "delete",
"action_time": 1723215398,
"author": {
"author_url": "https://vk.com/id599539792",
"id": 599539792,
"platform": 4,
"shared_post_author_id": -217603705,
"shared_post_author_url": "https://vk.com/club217603705"
},
"creation_time": 1716902563,
"event_id": {
"post_owner_id": 599539792,
"post_id": 208,
"shared_post_owner_id": -217603705,
"shared_post_id": 6908
},
"event_shared_url": "https://vk.com/wall-217603705_6908",
"event_type": "share",
"event_url": "https://vk.com/wall599539792_208",
"shared_post_creation_time": 1716800220,
"shared_post_text": "#คลิปเย็ด #คลิปโป๊<br>กดติดตามเพจ 👉👉👉 Asian Pornstar 👈👈👈 แล้วจะดูคลิปได้ 🐵🐵🐵🐵 ไอโฟนไอแพดต้องใช้ซาฟารีเปิดวีเค กดไลค์เพจในซาฟารีก่อน",
"text": ""
},
"socialgist_metadata": {
"language": "th"
}
}