VK (VKontakte) Video Downloader
Paste a VK link - the whole share message is fine.
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This downloader at a glance
- Status
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Video downloader
- Media
2/4media types covered
See the breakdown - Copying a link
4steps to a link
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How to download from VK (VKontakte)
VK (VKontakte) identifies a video with a pair of numbers rather than one: an owner ID and a video ID, written together as video<owner>_<id>. A minus sign in front of the owner ID means the video belongs to a community rather than a person, which is a genuinely useful thing to be able to read off a link. VK has also been moving video onto its own vkvideo.ru domain, and access varies by country - parts of VK are blocked in some places, and some content is only served within Russia.
Open the video on its own
Copy the address or use the share option
Check both IDs are there
Paste it here
Read the step-by-step wording
Open the video on its own. Playing a video from a wall post opens it in an overlay. Make sure the address identifies the video and its two IDs, not the post or the community it appeared in.
Copy the address or use the share option. The share option under the player offers a copy-link option. Once the video is open on its own, copying the address bar works just as well.
Check both IDs are there. A usable address contains video, the owner ID, an underscore and the video ID. If one half is missing, the link points at a page rather than a video.
Paste it here. vk.com and vkvideo.ru addresses are both accepted.
VK (VKontakte) link hosts
- vk.com
- vkvideo.ru
- userapi.com
What is covered
Supported media and formats
2 of 4 media types covered
- Videos on public profiles and communities
- Reuploads
- private profiles, closed communities and age-restricted videoNot supported
- live broadcastsNot supported
What each of these covers
- Videos on public profiles and communities
- Video VK serves without a login, which is the only kind that can be worked with.
- Reuploads
- A large share of VK video is copied from other platforms. The account posting it is frequently not the source, which matters if you care about provenance.
- private profiles, closed communities and age-restricted video(not supported)
- VK serves restricted content only to signed-in, permitted accounts. Age-gated video requires a login as well.
- live broadcasts(not supported)
- A stream in progress has no finished file behind it.
Worth knowing
Tips for VK (VKontakte) links
- A minus sign before the owner ID means the video belongs to a community; no minus means a personal profile. It is the quickest way to tell what you are looking at.
- vkvideo.ru and vk.com addresses refer to the same videos, so either is fine as long as it names both IDs.
- Access to VK varies a great deal by country. If a page will not open from where you are, it will not open for us either.
When it goes wrong
Troubleshooting
Questions
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