VK Getter

Very simple and pythonic way to extract data from VK.

Getting started

Install package via pip

pip install vk_getter

Use your access token, and get posts from any public group. You can get token here.

from vk_getter import VKGetter

getter = VKGetter("TOKEN")

# get 200 latest posts from https://www.vk.com/vk
posts = getter.get_posts("vk", 200) 

# get 150 posts with offset of 50
posts = getter.get_posts("lol", 150, 50)

You can specify different settings:

posts = getter.get_latest_posts("https://www.vk.com/vk",
                                count=120,
				offset=20,
                                pinned=False,
                                allow_no_attachments=False,
                                ads=False,
                                copyright=False)

All posts are retrieved as a Python dataclasses, but can also be returned as dicts.

posts = getter.get_latest_posts(group_domain="vk",
                                count=1,
                                as_dict=True)
# posts[0] = 
#     {
#         "id": 1320761,
#         "date": "15.09.2022",
#         "time": "14:15:11",
#         "text": "...",
#         "attachments": {
#             "photo": [],
#             "video": [
#                 "..."
#             ],
#             "audio": [],
#             "other": []
#         },
#         "comments": 858,
#         "likes": 1150,
#         "reposts": 371,
#         "views": 518953
#     }

Attachments

You can download gathered attachments to your local system.

from vk_getter import VKGetter

getter = VKGetter("TOKEN")
posts = getter.get_posts("lol", 150)

# download all of the 4 types
path = "lol"
getter.download_all(posts, path)

# or specify one
getter.download(posts, "photo", path)
getter.download(posts, "video", path)
getter.download(posts, "audio", path)
getter.download(posts, "other", path)

Or you can extract them as links.

from vk_getter import VKGetter

getter = VKGetter("TOKEN")
posts = getter.get_posts("lol", 150)

# extract all of the 4 types
# returns a dataclass Attachments object with 4 fields
attachments = getter.extract_all(posts)

# or specify one
photos = getter.extract(posts, "photo")
videos = getter.extract(posts, "video")
audios = getter.extract(posts, "audio")
others = getter.extract(posts, "other")

*Note: do NOT use as_dict in the get_posts method.

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