VK Data Access
International social data has become increasingly valuable as brands of every size work to understand their customers around the globe. With more than 236 million accounts and 55 million active monthly users, VK has become one of the world's largest social platforms. VK officially supports the Russian, Ukrainian and English languages and its data has features similar to other social networks such as Posts, Comments, Photos and more. The Keyword Search stream on the Gnip Data Collector allows you to easily filter VK data, delivering only what you need.
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Products
Data Collector
Connect to multiple public APIs simultaneously with a single connection to Gnip. You select the sources, we will collect the data, enrich it, and pass it along to you. Simplify your access and save on scarce engineering resources.
Features
Format Normalization
Want to use just one parser to consume all of your data? Activity Streams format from Gnip enables you to consume all of your data in a single standardized format across all of our data sources.
Dedicated Support Team
We offer technical onboarding, technical documentation, code snippets and libraries on GitHub, and rapid support response during business hours with 24/7 emergency response to ensure your success.
Duplicate Exclusion
Gnip eliminates duplicates within each stream so you'll only receive each activity once. This is particularly useful for polling-based streams where the original source may deliver the same activity multiple times.
Optimized Polling
Tired of trying to keep up with changing rate limits, API latency, and other factors that limit the effectiveness of your polling? Gnip optimizes the polling for each API to ensure that you get the most data you can.
Choice of Protocols
Whether you choose to access your data in the publisher's original format or in Activity Streams format, Gnip can deliver your data to you in the protocol of your choice: HTTP GET, HTTP POST, or Streaming HTTP
Plug & Play Streams
The Data Collector provides a single point of integration that supports up to six interchangeable realtime public API streams from our wide variety of supported social networks.
Customized Solutions, Predictable Pricing
Gnip offers customized solutions with predictable pricing to meet the needs of your business. There are three easy steps to getting started.
- Discuss what you are looking to do with VK data
- Get you into a trial so you can test our solution with up to six different streams
- Put together the best package for your needs
Payloads
Payloads
Payload Elements
Post
- Activity ID
- PublishedTime
- UpdatedTime
- Title
- Type
- Likes
- Activity URL
- Content
- Reply To
- Source Type
- Source Data
- Attachment Type
- Attachment
- Geo
Actor
- Author Name
- Author URL
- Author Avatar
- Author ID
- Gender
- Group
- Signer ID
Documentation
Additional
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Industries Using VK
Social Media Monitoring
Social conversations are happening across the world, and VK is the top source for Russian and Ukrainian brand conversations. Due to the high volume of brand content shared on the site, every business can find value in VK metrics and insight.
Business Intelligence
Understanding how content is shared on VK can affect revenue, customer service volumes and other internal metrics. VK is quickly becoming a key to success for business intelligence applications, both in Eastern Europe and worldwide.
Retail
Understanding how your brand is viewed by international customers is just the beginning of the value that can be uncovered in VK data. From trends in consumer opinion to purchase location data, VK data's uses are unlimited.
Sources Similar to VK
VK was modelled after Facebook and the two sources share a lot of common elements such as Posts, Photos, Comments, and Videos. The data returned from both can be analyzed for similar results, just with different geographic meaning.
Status Updates and Posts on VK and Tweets share a lot in common. Both include structured and unstructured metadata including links, images, and free form text that can be analyzed for insights.
Being able to do a keyword search on social data allows you to get the information that’s relevant to you. Not only is the content similar on VK and Google+ but both allow you to keyword filter on that content.