VKontakte allows you to create communities. They are used for a variety of tasks - uniting users by hobbies and work, promoting a new business, and others. The creators of the social network allowed group administrators to choose whether the content in them would be available to every user or only to those who were accepted.
Depending on your goals or preferences, you can create an open or closed community. In the latter case, information and functionality will become available after administrators manually accept the user after submitting an application. And some people immediately have a question: “How to get into a closed group on VK without submitting an application?”
Sometimes it happens that moderators reject a request to join, but the information from it is very much needed. You should find out if you can bypass the restrictions.
How to get into a closed group on VK or view it
If you just want to view the content posted in a closed group, you will only be able to see the standard components:
- information about what this group is about and its name;
- avatar;
- list of subscribers;
- button to join the community;
- contact block.
But the main content will be hidden. What is the easiest way to join a closed VK group? The quick solution is to submit an application for membership. You just need to wait a little and it will be approved. To do this, click on “Submit an application” and wait for the administrator or group owner to enroll you in the ranks of subscribers.
Most public sites need an influx of new subscribers, which means they quickly accept new applications. This process can even be accelerated by writing to the administration with a request to accept your request. The link to the owner's page can be found in the contact section.
So, to gain access to hidden materials, you need to have a VK page and subscribe to the required community.
The same goes for users. If you know the link to a person’s page, but when you go to it the service writes that access is limited, then how can you view the page in this case?
There are two options. If access is limited to everyone, including friends, then you will not be able to find out information from his page. But if the content is available to friends, then you can send a friend request to the person, and if he approves it, the information will become available.
Is it possible to view a closed group and page on the social network VKontakte
The social network VKontakte has the ability to create groups (see how to create a group on VKontakte for step-by-step instructions). They can be used for different purposes - uniting people by interests, promoting your business, etc. The developers gave the group administrator the opportunity to decide whether the published information will be available to all users or only to members. Depending on your desire, you can create an open or closed group (see how to create a closed group on VK). In the latter, all functionality will be available only to those subscribers who signed up for updates and were manually added to the list of participants by the community administrator (see how to appoint an administrator in a VKontakte group). How can I view a closed VKontakte group ?
This question worries many users. It is not always possible to undergo moderation to participate in a particular public (see what a public in contact means). And information is desperately needed. Now we will try to figure out whether it is possible to somehow bypass the restrictions.
Is it possible to watch a closed group without joining?
If you try to view information that is published in a closed public, you will only see the general picture.
The following elements will be available to us:
- Information that this is a closed group
- Name
- Photo
- List of participants
- Administrator contacts (see how to hide an admin in a VKontakte group)
And published materials will be hidden from us.
How can we watch closed VKontakte groups? The simplest solution is to submit an application for membership and wait for its approval. To do this, click the “Submit Application” button.
After that, you need to wait until the group admin approves you. I would like to note right away that most public pages are interested in the number of their subscribers growing (see: adding VKontakte subscribers to a group). Therefore, they try to approve incoming applications as quickly as possible.
You can even speed up this process - just write to the administrator. You will find a link to his page in the “Contacts” section.
We clearly discussed these points in the video lesson.
Thus, receiving restricted content is only available if you are registered on the social network (see VKontakte registration) and gain access as a participant.
View closed VKontakte page
Let's say you know the user's id (see find out VKontakte id), and you are trying to access his page. As a result, you receive a message that access is limited (see how to restrict access to your page on VK).
How can we view user materials in this case?
There are two options here. If a user has restricted access for everyone, including his friends, then you will not be able to see his personal information.
It's another matter if the materials are available to friends. Here you must send him a request to add you as a friend. If he approves it, you will get access to the materials.
Is it possible to hack closed pages using services?
When trying to look for such services, we came across this project.
https://vk-open.ru/
Allegedly, just enter the link to the group and you will be able to see all the materials.
As a result, we got this result.
As you can see, nothing worked, and we did not see the materials. Conclusion - services offering to watch a closed group for free do not work!
Are there working services and programs for viewing closed groups on VK?
While searching for such services, I came across this service: vk-open.ru. It prompts the user to provide a link to the community - and the site will immediately display all materials from it. But in fact, when you enter the link, the service writes that “We currently do not have access to this group, try again later.” It turns out that programs or services that allow you to watch private public pages for free are not working!
Note! Often, the service of viewing materials from a closed group is offered by scammers with the goal of hacking your account.
What problems might there be when joining a closed VK group?
Despite all the listed ways to see materials from closed groups, situations still arise when this is impossible. For example:
- The administration refused to approve the application. Solution: if you desperately need information, but the moderators won’t accept it, you can try writing to one of the community members and asking him to send reposts of publications in private messages. Often people do this calmly, only if the group is not “very secret”.
- The application is not approved for a long time. Solution: it may be worth asking the administration if the community is working and, if so, whether you can join the group after receiving approval. Or find a similar community that is actively developing.
In most cases, information hidden from the eyes of unsubscribed readers is publicly available online. So, if you can’t get to the right place just like that, you can try to find the information yourself.
VKontakte group concept
is a community of people connected by a certain range of interests - those, for example, who love the same music, prefer to spend leisure time together, those who studied or worked together, etc. Groups can be very different, depending on interests and preferences, and also large and not very much in numbers.
Closed groups on VKontakte
are created in order to prevent, for various reasons, the penetration of those people who are undesirable into the group, as well as to protect information about the composition of the group, photographs, names and preferences of people included in it, and other confidential details. The VKontakte social network provides fairly good protection for all types of information for groups that are closed to outside users.
If access is denied to an outside user, then the likelihood that he will be able to penetrate the closed group and find out information about its members is very small. However, there are ways to violate confidentiality to a greater or lesser extent. For example, one way to view the profiles of members of the vkontakte group
, whose pages are closed to outside users, according to the developers and those who distribute it, is a program called VRazvedke (VRazvedke). In addition to the fact that when using this program it is possible to view hidden and private pages and profiles, it allows you to see hidden profile photos, video and audio files, read hidden posts and see the rating of a particular user. According to the developers, the program does not hack pages, but only successfully exploits holes in the server’s security.
The size of the VRazvedke program is about 14 MB; to use it successfully, you must enter the ID of the page you want to view. Closed groups vkontakte
protected from intrusion by curious outsiders. But some users sometimes manage to get into them using not entirely correct methods. One of these ways is to send a message and a link to the administration, which the admin must follow, which automatically adds you to the closed group. The link looks like this: https://vkontakte.ru/groups.php?act=ajaxinv&gid=&id=[your id] where you need to enter the identifiers of the closed group (its name), and your own. A phrase that can provoke an admin to click on a link could be something like: “Dear administration, look at what a nightmare is happening and take action!” Although, of course, this, like other methods, does not provide a 100% chance of getting into a closed group.
There are three types of groups on VKontakte. Open groups are ordinary communities where any social network user can go and subscribe to them. In addition, there are private groups that can only be joined by invitation from administrators. And the third type of group is closed communities. They differ in that to join them, you need to submit an application, which will be reviewed by the administrators, and if they approve it, then you will become a subscriber and will be able to have free access to this group.
Such communities are great for a narrow circle of people, such as classmates, to post content that needs to be limited from prying eyes.
So, after you have created a group, to make it private, go to the “community management” section and select the “settings” subsection there. The “group type” item will be available here. By default, all groups will always be open; to make the community private, select the appropriate tab and click “save.”
Now anyone who is not a subscriber to your group will not be able to see your content. In addition, when entering your group, there will be no “subscribe” tab. Therefore, to become your subscriber, a person needs to click on the “apply” tab.
If you are the administrator of a closed group, then applications from those who wish to become your subscribers can be found by going to the “community management” section. Here you need to select the “participants” item, and in it the “applications” subsection. A list of people who want to become members of your community will be available here. To do this, there will be two tabs next to each participant’s avatar: “accept to the group” or “reject the application”. In addition, at the top of this section there is a tab “approve all applications” in order to save time.
There are pros and cons to gated communities. For example, on the one hand, people rarely join such groups, since viewing the content requires effort and waiting until the application is approved. Additionally, some are suspicious that the community is closed. On the other hand, in such groups the exit statistics are much lower. This is explained by the fact that such groups are difficult to enter, and therefore, in a sense, subscribers value being in them, and therefore leave much less often.
It is also worth noting that only groups can be closed. Communities that are public pages are always open. Public pages do not have this setting at all. Therefore, if you need a closed community, then you need to create it only as
The social network VKontakte is so widely popular among users not only because of the opportunity to communicate, listen to music or watch videos. Interests are what unite people, and the various thematic groups on this social network give people the chance to find someone with the same interests as themselves.
There are different types of communities: open, closed and private. Each has its own pros and cons, which are discussed in more detail below. After describing the advantages and disadvantages, many may be interested in how to change what has already been created, i.e. how to make a group closed if it was open before, or vice versa.
By the way, according to statistics, people often change the type of communities. For example, the question of how to close a group interests users quite often. Well, let's start analyzing communities.
Bottom line
We talked about open and closed groups. We went over all the main nuances of working with them: how to create, how to change, how to add people, etc.
Now you know what the difference between them is and you can use the acquired knowledge in your work. We hope our article was useful to you.
Hello! Many people have been wondering for a long time why the developers of VKontakte, when they were thinking about the possibility of creating VKontakte groups, did not stop at only 2 options - an open group type and. Why, and most importantly, for whom were private groups introduced? We will talk about this in this article.
A private VKontakte group is a kind of private club that you can’t easily get into. Communities of this type cannot be found through an internal search on the VK.COM website, you cannot repost from them, you cannot invite your friends to them, etc.
The only way to get into a private VK group is to receive an invitation from an administrator or moderator. People from the outside will not be able to see even the logo, name, description and other materials of the community.
Why such secrecy you ask? Perhaps for the exchange of private information. Let’s say there are private groups of SEOs and , where only trusted people “hang out” and where you can fearlessly discuss topics and share relevant information with your “colleagues”, without fear that the information will leave the group.
To make a group private, you need to go into it and click on the “manage community” button, which is located just below the avatar:
Afterwards you will be transferred to the internal menu, where at the very bottom on the “information” tab you will see the opportunity to select GROUP TYPE:
Select the group type – PRIVATE. You can join a private group only by invitation from managers.
Now only you and the administrators and moderators you appoint can invite friends. The invite friends button is located in the same right menu as “community management”. You can invite only those who have not prohibited this in the privacy settings (https://vk.com/settings?act=privacy) - @Who can invite me to communities.”
That's all. Otherwise, the functionality of a private VKontakte group is identical to open and closed communities.
If you have any questions, I’m waiting for them in the comments!
If you decide to create a community for a specific group of users, for example, only for your school friends, you will need to close the group after it is created. Today we’ll talk about how to do this in practice.
In fact, there is nothing complicated in the process, but there are some nuances that you should be aware of.
Perhaps the most important thing is that you can make a group private, but you can’t make a public page! After all, that’s why it’s a public page... Therefore, if you want to close your public page, you will first need to. This is not difficult to do.
Go to the public page. On the right side of the screen you will see a menu. In it, select the “Transfer to group” item.
A small window will appear. Read the terms and conditions for transferring the page to the group and, if you are satisfied with everything, click on the “Transfer” button.
The action itself will need to be confirmed with a code that will be sent to your mobile phone.
If you have a group and not a public, then you don’t need to do everything described above. Let's start closing the group.
Go to your group and click on “Community Management”.
Staying on the "Information" tab, scroll down to the bottom of the page. There is a “Group Type” item here. You can choose one of three types of group:
- Open (everyone can join).
- Closed (you can join by invitation or by submitting an application).
- Private (you can join only by invitation of the manager).
What type of group to choose, closed or private, is up to you to decide. If the group is closed, the user will see this:
That is, he, the user, will be able to submit an application to the group. But this is what he will see if the group is private:
As you can see, everything is very simple. You can ask your questions about the article using comments.
Hello! Today we will talk about closed VKontakte groups and how to get into them. But first, a little theory. Closed groups on the VK.COM website are communities in which access to materials is limited and available only to members of this group. Those. To be able to follow community news, an outside user must submit an application to join and wait for its approval.
The community administrator can make the group open or closed. He and the lower management staff can decide to approve or reject an application for membership.
The closed type of VK group is well suited for creating a social circle for a narrow circle of people - a group at the institute, classmates, colleagues, etc. All this is done for one purpose - so that unnecessary eyes, say the rector, teachers and management, do not see their discussions and the information that users share with each other.
Now I will show you how to make a group closed. There is a separate post about that, so we will look at the existing community.
To begin, go to the group you created and pay attention to the menu on the right. You need to click on the “manage community” button. As soon as you do this, you will be redirected to the internal settings of the group, where the most recent one will be responsible for the type of group - open, closed, private.
Here you need to select “Closed”. You can join a closed group by invitation or by submitting an application.
Now, in order to get into it, the user must submit an application to join.
Or be on the guest list. Only the administrator or moderator of a closed group can invite. In order to invite people to a closed group, you need to click on the “invite friends” button from the menu on the right:
After clicking on the button, the “invite friends” window will open, where you can select who you want to see in the group and send them invitations.
In order to manage applications for membership and invitations, you need to go to the internal menu of the group again by clicking on the “community management” button and selecting the second tab – “members”.
Here you can cancel the invitation to join, accept into the group, or reject the application to join.
From the point of view of promotion, a closed group is much more difficult than an open one, but the risk of losing an audience is much less, since the user realizes that as soon as he leaves it, it will be difficult for him to get back.
Many, of course, are interested in the question of how to view the wall and materials of closed VKontakte groups without being a member of them (that is, without being a member). The answer is hidden on the surface - NO. Only by submitting an application and receiving approval do you gain access to the group’s materials.
As a rule, if the group is alive and the administration is interested in receiving new members, the application is approved within 24 hours.
That's basically it. If you have questions about closed VK communities, ask in the comments.
Good day to you, dear reader.
Are you looking for information on how to manage a group in contact? I would like to dot the i's right away - the topics of group management and its management differ from each other. If you are still interested in leading a group, then you should.
And in this article we’ll talk about managing a group.
Open group on VK
pros
- An opportunity for potential participants to preview content and see if it is suitable.
- You can join a group without the prior consent of the community administrators.
Minuses
- The influx of trolls and spammers trying to push advertising everywhere can not always be controlled due to the absence of community administrators and moderators in VKontakte at the time of the attack.
- Some people may bookmark the group, which will cause the number of members to grow a little worse.
Private group on VK
There will be no pros and cons here. It is rather a separate type of community. You can only invite friends to private groups. It will not be possible to “shove” left-wing people here. Moreover, when searching for a particular group, private communities are not displayed for users.
So, from the above, we can conclude that this type of group is ideal for those who do not like to advertise content, but just want to share it with friends. Some users create a private group in order to be in splendid isolation and repost interesting things from various public pages, without cluttering the main page.
How to change group type in VK
The community can be made closed, private, or public at any time. In connection with the latest updates, it has become possible to turn the community into a public one, but this is a different topic.
The example will show how to close a VKontakte group, but in the same way you can open it or turn it into a private one. The point is that everything is resolved on one page.
Hello, friends! Today we will talk about how you can close a VKontakte group, the creator of which you are.
This may be required in various situations. For example, you decided to create a community for your classmates, classmates, colleagues. Or it will be intended for a specific circle of people, and there is absolutely no need for the information in it to be seen by other users who are not subscribers.
VKontakte has three types of groups: open, closed and private. With the first, everything is clear: users see all the information and independently join the community. But if you need to hide information from prying eyes, then you need to choose one of the last two types.
What is the difference between private and closed
?
You can submit a closed application, and if the administrator approves it, you will become a subscriber and gain access to the materials. You can get into the private one only after an invitation from the administration.
If you are not a subscriber of the group, then by going to its page, you will have access to the following information:
Closed – name, status, description of the community, website, list of participants, avatar, there will also be an opportunity to write a message and apply to join;
Private – you will see a message on the page: “This is a private community. Access by administrator invitation only,” and nothing more.
Another important point. You can close a VKontakte community only if you have a group. If the page is public, then you first need to transfer it to a group and then close it.
How to close a VKontakte group from unwanted members
When creating a non-profit group on VKontakte, after a while, many are faced with the fact that unnecessary people, spammers and trolls come there. It happens that closing the wall and other restrictions do not help get rid of troubles, and participants are partially deprived of functionality. It is then that administrators think about limiting the circle of people who can proudly call themselves participants. And when creating a new group with a specific “narrow” topic or wanting to organize a warm and cozy corner for the elite and privileged, it is logical to take care of how to close a group in VKontakte in advance.
How to create a closed group
Technically this is easy to do. Let's say a group already exists and it's open to public viewing.
- Go to “Community Management”
- Next, on the first tab “Information” we find the latest setting “Group Type”
- Select “Closed”.
That's all, public access is closed. Now only administrators can decide who is worthy of becoming a member and who is not.
In the search for communities, under the name of each there is a note “Open group” or “Closed group”. If you click on closed, you will only see: the name and description of the community, its avatar, the total number of participants, several of their profiles and who the administrators are. All posts, wall, photos, etc. will be unavailable.
Some write in the description of the community about the criteria by which they accept participants, as well as the rules of conduct in the group. Be loyal, if you want to become part of a society, accept its laws and rules.
Is it possible to view a closed VKontakte group?
Only its members, who are added to the community by administrators, can do this, so if they don’t want to accept you, accept it. Of course, you can find ways online to do this against the wishes of the administrators. For example, trick them into clicking on a special link, after which you will become a member. But, firstly, few people click on dubious links received from someone unknown, and secondly, you yourself can become a victim by picking up viruses on sites that offer such measures.
Think about why VKontakte groups are closed. There are plenty of options. But in general, these are people with the same activities or views, who, for subjective reasons, do not want to advertise them. If your desire to get there against all odds is just curiosity, find a similar public community. And if you suspect that participants are engaged in some kind of illegal activity, you can complain to the site administration.
How to join a closed group on VKontakte
There is only one way to do this - submit an application for membership. The “Submit Application” button is located under the avatar. You cannot write anything in the application. Community administrators will review your page to be considered. After you have submitted your application, it can only be o.
If your candidacy is approved, you will receive a notification.
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Making a closed group
If you need to close a community and you log into VK from a computer or laptop, then on your page in the left menu, select “Groups”. Then find yours in the list and click on it.
Click on the three horizontal dots under your avatar and select “Manage Community” from the drop-down menu.
There is a menu on the right side, make sure you are on the “Settings” tab. Next, in the “Basic Information” section, find the line “Group Type”. Click on the word "Open". In the menu that appears, select the desired item – “Closed”.
After specifying the type, click the “Save” button.
Is it possible to view a closed group on VKontakte: photos, videos
Within the VKontakte social network, there are several million different groups and publics that have at their disposal advanced community management functionality.
The stumbling block was the presence of closed pages that require mandatory membership in the group to view the information located there.
Let's take a look at the main features of such pages in order and learn about everything related to viewing audio, video and posts in a group limited to ordinary users.
Closed group on VK
Why are closed communities created?
Let's start with the original source of the problem - the ability to hide information from prying eyes. Why is this necessary? In order not to turn the page into a walk-through yard and freely post any information that is interesting for those who joined, with the exception of that which violates the rules of the social network.
A closed basis allows you to avoid unexpected complaints from outsiders who might have been paid for such an ugly move. Another advantage is the safety of the wall and albums from uninformative posts and constant spam.
Well, the last option could be to have a narrowly focused page theme that may not appeal to all users of the VKontakte resource.
Creating a closed community in VK
Is it possible to view a closed group?
Today, there is a huge amount of malware that promises open access to any group that can be found on VK. You shouldn’t believe this, because with the constant improvement of the site, the developers actually managed to destroy all working methods for viewing closed groups through browser extensions or auxiliary software.
Thus, it is not difficult to conclude that in order to view information in a closed community, you need to join it. Submit an application and wait until one of the administrators reviews and confirms it. As an alternative, you can use a fake page, but it all depends on your intentions and interests.
So, so that you don’t once again fall into the trap of attackers and lose access to your page, we will answer frequently asked questions online regarding closed groups.
How to view the wall of a closed community without joining it
Allegedly, there is a kind of fake widget that guarantees viewing of groups of any type, including those restricted for viewing. In reality, this is just a ploy for third parties to gain access to your page. Unfortunately, there is no way to view any information from the page unless a user in the group sends it to you. But even in this case, reading the comments on the post will be unrealistic.
Closed groups on VKontakte
Watching a video from an album in a closed group
Again, if a visit to a page is blocked by the main administrator, all information for third parties will be hidden. If you are interested in videos, you can find them by specific title through a global search. The only condition will be that the video is in the public domain, and not in the exact same album blocked for others.
How to view photos on a closed group page
Another frequently asked question to which there is only one answer - no way. As mentioned above, you should not use certain programs that promise 100% results or use suspicious plugins for the main browser. If for some reason you do not want to join the main backbone of the public, then use a second account. If you don’t have one, you can always create it using an account from another social network attached to a “fake” number of one of the special resources.
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Perhaps this is the only thing that a person who has not joined the group can get. However, it is necessary to know the serial number of the page being viewed or id. If you find a certain nickname instead of a sequence of numbers, you shouldn’t be upset, because it’s quite easy to find out through the participants on the page.
Open a public page that is closed for viewing and, if there is a list of participants there, click on the appropriate item. You see a list of people who have joined. Now you need to click on the magnifying glass image in the upper right. As soon as a new page opens, pay attention to the address bar, where after 5D there will be a combination of numbers. This is the same id that needs to be copied and pasted at the end of the following link - https://vk.com/stats?gid0000, where you substitute the received address instead of zeros.
But, as expected, access will only be possible if it was previously opened by the community administrator. Otherwise, you will receive a notification that you do not have the appropriate rights to view this data. There is no way to correct the current situation, so all your subsequent attempts will be in vain.
Security measures
Let us repeat once again - if you want to view information for a limited circle of people within a community, your use of special programs may be the reason why your account is hacked. None of the methods advertised on the Internet will ever ensure successful viewing of a blocked page. And those methods that once really worked have become only part of history. Therefore, you should not risk your personal information to gain access to information that is not as interesting as it might seem at first glance.
Bottom line
As you already understand, this entire article is a complete warning, which should protect you from attempts to use malicious software and cause irreparable damage to yourself. The only working option is to apply to join a closed group. And it is not necessary to do this from the main page, when any existing fake will work perfectly. Do not forget about the safety of personal information and never take risks for illusory, unjustified goals.
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How to close from your phone
If you access VKontakte using a phone or tablet, then let’s figure out how you can make a closed group through the mobile version of the site (access your VK page through the browser installed on your phone), or through the mobile application (access the page through one downloaded from the Play Market or App Store VKontakte application).
Via the mobile version of the site
If you are using the mobile version of the site, then open the side menu by clicking on the three horizontal bars in the upper left corner of the page, and then select “Groups” from the side menu.
Find yours and click on it.
Scroll down the page a little and you will see the “Group Type” item.
Place a marker next to the word “Closed” and click on the “Save” button.
Now on your main page at the top it says “Closed group”. So, everything was done correctly.
