Vk

Call the VK API with curl + jq. The token is injected as $VK_ACCESS_TOKEN and is passed in the Authorization: Bearer header. Every VK API call also requires the v (API version) query parameter — use v=5.199. Base URL: https://api.vk.com/method/<method>.

VK always returns HTTP 200; success is {"response": ...} and failure is {"error":{"error_code":<n>,"error_msg":"<detail>"}} — always check for .error and show error_msg verbatim. Common codes: 5 = auth failed (token wrong or revoked → user must re-connect the VK connector), 214 = access to adding post denied (the token lacks the wall right — a community access key with wall is required), 15/203 = access denied to that owner.

Step 1 — identify who you can post as

A community access key posts on the community wall: owner_id must be the negative community id and you pass from_group=1. Resolve the community id from the token:

curl -sS "https://api.vk.com/method/groups.getById?v=5.199" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VK_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  | jq '.response, .error'

Take the group id (e.g. 123456) → owner_id is -123456. (For a personal user token, owner_id is your positive user id from users.get, and you omit from_group.)

Post to the wall

Confirm the message text with the user before posting. The post must have text and/or attachments.

OWNER_ID="-123456"   # negative = community; from_group=1 posts as the community
MSG="Пример поста через VK API. #ai"
curl -sS -G "https://api.vk.com/method/wall.post" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VK_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode "v=5.199" \
  --data-urlencode "owner_id=$OWNER_ID" \
  --data-urlencode "from_group=1" \
  --data-urlencode "message=$MSG" \
  | jq '.response, .error'

Success returns {"response":{"post_id":<id>}}. The public URL is https://vk.com/wall<OWNER_ID>_<post_id> (e.g. https://vk.com/wall-123456_17).

• Hashtags (#tag) and plain URLs in message are rendered/clickable natively — no facet/offset handling needed (unlike Bluesky).
• Attach media/links with attachments (comma-separated), format {type}{owner_id}_{media_id} (e.g. photo-123456_789) or a single external URL. Only one link may be attached; more than one link → error 222.
• publish_date (Unix timestamp) schedules a deferred post.
• Always send Cyrillic message via --data-urlencode so it isn't mangled.

List my recent wall posts + engagement

OWNER_ID="-123456"
curl -sS -G "https://api.vk.com/method/wall.get" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VK_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode "v=5.199" \
  --data-urlencode "owner_id=$OWNER_ID" \
  --data-urlencode "count=20" \
  | jq '.error, (.response.items[]? | {id,
        text,
        likes: .likes.count,
        reposts: .reposts.count,
        comments: .comments.count,
        views: .views.count,
        date})'

count max 100. Combine owner_id + a post id to build the URL https://vk.com/wall<owner_id>_<id>.

Delete a post

OWNER_ID="-123456"; POST_ID="17"
curl -sS -G "https://api.vk.com/method/wall.delete" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VK_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  --data-urlencode "v=5.199" \
  --data-urlencode "owner_id=$OWNER_ID" \
  --data-urlencode "post_id=$POST_ID" \
  | jq '.response, .error'

Gotchas

• v is mandatory on every call — omitting it returns an error.
• User tokens can't be freshly minted via OAuth (Implicit / Authorization Code flows for user tokens were disabled 2024-06); use a community access key (unlimited lifetime, created in the community's API settings) with the wall right.
• Posting as the community requires both owner_id negative and from_group=1.
• Rate/anti-spam: repeated identical posts or too-frequent posting can hit codes like 214/219 — space posts out.