VKontakte Public Data connection guide

Supermetrics Support Site Team

Modified on: Tue, 20 Dec, 2022 at 11:35 AM

Use this guide to connect VKontakte Public Data to Supermetrics.

If you need to connect this data source to one of our data warehouse or cloud storage destinations, explore our prerequisite and filling guides.

VKontakte posts: Returns metadata on public posts that match your keyword, as well as basic metrics including counts of comments, likes, and more.
VKontakte user data: Returns public username and metadata about users, including the number of friends, videos, or photos from their account.

Instructions

Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.

Open a new Google Sheets file.
Navigate to Extensions → Supermetrics → Launch to open the Supermetrics sidebar.
Click Create query.
Under Data source, select VKontakte Public Data.
Click Start.
Navigate to Report configuration.
Select your query type, and add your keywords or user IDs. If you're adding more than one, separate each term with a comma, or give each one a new line.

Make sure you've connected Supermetrics to Looker Studio before following the steps below.

Open the Supermetrics data source gallery.
Navigate to VKontakte Public Data and click Try.
You'll see two buttons that read Authorize. If you're using Supermetrics for the first time, click the left-hand one and log in with the Google Account you use with Supermetrics.
Once that's done, or if you've done it before, click the right-hand Authorize button (under "VKontakte Public Data requires authorization to connect to data").
Select a team that has access to the account you want to connect.
Choose to make this connection shared or private.
Click Start.
Select your query type, and add your keywords or user IDs. If you're adding more than one, separate each term with a comma, or give each one a new line.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page. To create a report with our template, select Use report template for new reports. To create a blank report, deselect this option.
In the pane's top right, click Connect.
Click Create report.
Click Add to report.

Make sure you've installed the Supermetrics add-on before you connect.

Open an Excel file.
Click Data → Show Supermetrics.
Under Data source, select VKontakte Public Data.
Choose to make this connection shared or private.
Click Start.
Navigate to Report configuration.
Select your query type, and add your keywords or user IDs. If you're adding more than one, separate each term with a comma, or give each one a new line.