diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/vk.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/vk.py
index 47b9141b..bcc11793 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/vk.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/vk.py
@@ -149,17 +149,25 @@ class VkPhotosExtractor(VkExtractor):
         return data
 
     def _extract_profile(self, url):
-        extr = text.extract_from(self.request(url).text)
-        return {"user": {
-            "name": text.unescape(extr(
-                'rel="canonical" href="https://vk.com/', '"')),
+        page = self.request(url).text
+        extr = text.extract_from(page)
+
+        user = {
+            "id"  : extr('property="og:url" content="https://vk.com/id', '"'),
             "nick": text.unescape(extr(
-                '<h1 class="page_name">', "<")).replace("  ", " "),
-            "info": text.unescape(text.remove_html(extr(
-                '<span class="current_text">', '</span'))),
-            "id"  : (extr('<a href="/albums', '"') or
-                     extr('data-from-id="', '"')),
-        }}
+                "<title>", " | VK</title>")),
+            "info": text.unescape(extr(
+                ',"activity":"', '","')).replace("\\/", "/"),
+            "name": extr('href="https://m.vk.com/', '"'),
+        }
+
+        if user["id"]:
+            user["group"] = False
+        else:
+            user["group"] = True
+            user["id"] = extr('data-from-id="', '"')
+
+        return {"user": user}
 
 
 class VkAlbumExtractor(VkExtractor):
diff --git a/test/results/vk.py b/test/results/vk.py
index 9c5f530e..c2ce5849 100644
--- a/test/results/vk.py
+++ b/test/results/vk.py
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ __tests__ = (
 
     "id"  : r"re:\d+",
     "user": {
+        "group": False,
         "id"  : "398982326",
         "info": "Мы за Движуху! – m1ni SounD #4 [EROmusic]",
-        "name": "",
+        "name": "id398982326",
         "nick": "Dobrov Kurva",
     },
 },
@@ -33,8 +34,9 @@ __tests__ = (
 
     "id"  : r"re:\d+",
     "user": {
+        "group": True,
         "id"  : "-165740836",
-        "info": str,
+        "info": "",
         "name": "cosplayinrussia",
         "nick": "Косплей | Cosplay 18+",
     },