Bilibili Scraper: Videos, Comments, Creators & Rankings

Get Bilibili (B站 / 哔哩哔哩) data as clean JSON without a login or an API key: video metadata with engagement metrics, comments with replies (楼中楼), creator (UP主) profiles with a stats rollup, and the official top-100 rankings. Feed it keywords, video URLs, creator URLs or a ranking feed — or all four in one run. A practical Bilibili API alternative for market research, KOL vetting and comment analysis.

$5 per 1,000 videos · $2 per 1,000 comments (replies included) · $10 per 1,000 creator profiles. One price on every Apify plan, China residential proxy included, and runs that deliver nothing cost $0.

• One run, four inputs — keywords, video URLs/BV ids, creator space URLs and ranking/popular feeds can be mixed; duplicates are delivered once.
• Numbers you can sort by straight away — every video row carries engagement rate, like/coin/favorite/share rates, age and views per day; every creator row carries average and median views, average engagement and posting cadence for the videos fetched in the run.
• Ready-made discovery — one input gives you Bilibili's official top-100 board for the whole site or any region.
• Checked against Bilibili itself — in our October 2026 acceptance tests, 17 videos × 29 fields were compared with the videos' own pages (the only difference was a live counter that grew between the two reads), and the ranking's top 10 matched the official board in order.
• Transparent delivery — fixed per-row prices, caps you control, and a run report (RUN_SUMMARY) that accounts for every source, every video's comments and anything skipped, with the reason.
• No setup — no login, no cookies or API key needed.

Scrapes publicly available data without login. Users are responsible for complying with Bilibili's terms of service in their use case.

Pricing

Pay per row delivered. Rows that fail or are skipped are never charged.

Event	Price	When
Video row	$0.005	per video row delivered (engagement metrics included)
Comment row	$0.002	per comment or reply delivered
Creator row	$0.01	per creator row whose rollup includes at least one video (other creator rows, e.g. when the video list could not be fetched, are delivered free)
Run fee	$0.00005	once per run, only if the run delivers at least one row

What common configurations cost at most (you pay only for rows delivered; videos with fewer comments than requested return fewer rows and cost less):

Configuration	Delivers up to	Cost up to
Try example (the form's prefilled keyword, 10 videos, 20 comments each)	10 videos + 200 comments	$0.45
Defaults (20 videos, no comments)	20 videos	$0.10
Defaults + comments (commentsPerVideo: 20)	20 videos + 400 comments	$0.90
One ranking board (feeds: ["ranking"], maxVideos: 100)	100 videos	$0.50
All default caps reached	300 videos + 1,000 comments + 20 creators	≈ $3.70
Beyond the default caps (raise maxCommentsTotal and maxTotalChargeUsd)	300 videos + 6,000 comments	≈ $13.50

Measured examples: the defaults + comments run delivered 20 videos + 242 comments for $0.58 (many keyword results are new videos with few comments); 20 creators with 15 videos each and 1,000 comments delivered 295 videos + 1,000 comments + 20 creators for $3.68 in 18 minutes.

maxTotalChargeUsd (default $10) is a hard stop: the Actor stops delivering before the next row would exceed it, and the lower of this value and your platform max-charge setting applies.

Three recipes

KOL vetting — profile and benchmark creators before you contact them.

{
  "creatorUrls": ["https://space.bilibili.com/946974", "https://space.bilibili.com/163637592"],
  "maxVideosPerCreator": 30,
  "maxVideos": 60
}

You get each creator's 30 newest videos (with engagement metrics) and one creator row per creator: followers, total likes, video count, verification, plus rollup with avgViews, medianViews, maxViews, avgEngagementRate, postingSpanDays and videosPerWeek. Set maxVideos to at least creators × maxVideosPerCreator; with a smaller maxVideos it is split evenly across the creators, so each rollup covers fewer videos.

Trend scan — what is hot right now, in one region or the whole site.

{
  "feeds": ["ranking"],
  "rankRegionIds": [0, 188],
  "maxVideos": 200
}

Up to 100 ranked videos per region (0 = whole site, 188 = Tech), each with source.rank (its position on the board), zone, tags, stats and derived metrics. Add "keywords": ["露营装备"] to scan a product category in the same run.

Comment mining — reactions and threads for specific videos.

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1GJ411x7h7", "BV1KiJk67EQ9"],
  "commentsPerVideo": 50,
  "includeReplies": true,
  "commentSort": "hot"
}

Up to 50 comment rows per video: the pinned comment and Bilibili's hot list first. Many videos have a hot list shorter than that (few comments with likes), so the rest is filled newest-first; each row's sort field says which list it came from (hot or new). With includeReplies, each comment is followed by up to maxRepliesPerComment of its replies (default 10) before the next comment starts, so one very long thread cannot use up the whole allowance; the comment's replyCount still shows the full thread size. Replies carry rootRpid and parentRpid, so threads can be rebuilt.

Input

Field	Default	Notes
keywords	—	Up to 20 keywords, Chinese or English. Bilibili returns at most 1,000 results per keyword.
videoUrls	—	Up to 300 video URLs, BV ids or av ids. b23.tv short links are not resolved.
creatorUrls	—	Up to 20 space.bilibili.com URLs or numeric mids.
feeds	—	ranking (top 100 per region) and/or popular (trending).
rankRegionIds	[0]	Up to 5 regions for the ranking feed: 0 whole site, 1 Animation, 3 Music, 4 Gaming, 5 Entertainment, 36 Knowledge, 119 Remix, 129 Dance, 155 Fashion, 160 Life, 181 Film & TV, 188 Tech, 211 Food, 217 Animals, 223 Cars, 234 Sports.
maxVideos	20	Hard cap for the whole run, across all inputs (max 300).
maxVideosPerKeyword	20	Per-keyword cap.
maxVideosPerCreator	40	Newest videos per creator.
commentsPerVideo	0	0–100 comment rows per video.
includeReplies	false	Also fetch replies (same price, counted toward both comment caps).
maxRepliesPerComment	10	With includeReplies: at most this many replies per comment (1–100).
commentSort	hot	hot (pinned comment and hot list first, topped up newest-first when the hot list is shorter than commentsPerVideo) or new (newest first).
maxCommentsTotal	1000	Hard cap on comment rows for the run.
maxTotalChargeUsd	10	Spending cap in USD.
proxyConfiguration	Apify RESIDENTIAL, China	Keep the default — see below.

Order and caps. Inputs are processed in this order: video URLs → creators → feeds → keywords, and maxVideos is shared by all of them. Creators split what is left evenly, so every creator gets a rollup (with 5 creators and maxVideos: 10, each gets 2 videos); feeds and keywords are then served first come, first served. The report shows what each source received and why it stopped. All videos are collected first; comments are then collected per video in that same order, first come, first served against maxCommentsTotal, so later videos may get fewer comments or none. RUN_SUMMARY.perVideoComments shows exactly what each video got.

Output

One dataset with three row types, told apart by type. The dataset has Overview, Videos, Comments and Creators views; CSV and Excel exports flatten nested fields.

{"type":"video","bvid":"BV1KiJk67EQ9","aid":117443632567747,"cid":42756868744,"url":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1KiJk67EQ9",
 "title":"我造了一块会飞的滑板...","description":"…","duration":598,"parts":1,"pubdate":"2026-10-15T17:30:00+08:00","isRepost":false,"copyrightCode":1,
 "category":{"tid":233,"tname":"极客DIY","tidV2":2104,"tnameV2":"自制发明/设备"},"tags":["滑板","DIY"],
 "owner":{"mid":431956189,"name":"神奇阿宇Ayu"},
 "stats":{"view":5363695,"danmaku":7144,"reply":10592,"favorite":89000,"coin":112376,"share":34722,"like":254161},
 "derived":{"engagementRate":0.0914,"likeRate":0.0474,"coinRatio":0.021,"favoriteRate":0.0166,"shareRate":0.0065,"ageDays":2,"viewsPerDay":2681847.5},
 "coverUrl":"https://i1.hdslb.com/bfs/archive/….jpg","source":{"mode":"ranking","keyword":null,"creatorMid":null,"rankRegionId":0,"rank":1}}
{"type":"comment","bvid":"BV1GJ411x7h7","aid":80433022,"rpid":3760801399,"parentRpid":null,"rootRpid":null,
 "author":{"mid":320773657,"name":"老咸鱼A"},"content":"坏消息：被骗了\n好消息：真好听","like":767623,"replyCount":2206,
 "publishedAt":"2020-11-29T20:26:45+08:00","sort":"hot","isPinned":false}
{"type":"creator","mid":946974,"name":"影视飓风","sign":"…","followers":18600000,"videoCount":937,"totalLikes":300000000,"level":6,
 "officialTitle":"…","profileStatus":"ok","spaceUrl":"https://space.bilibili.com/946974",
 "rollup":{"videosFetched":30,"sumViews":61000000,"avgViews":2033333,"medianViews":1650000,"maxViews":7900000,"maxVideoBvid":"BV1…",
           "avgEngagementRate":0.0712,"postingSpanDays":96,"videosPerWeek":2.19}}

(Values are illustrative.)

How the metrics are computed

• engagementRate = (like + coin + favorite + share) / view; likeRate, coinRatio, favoriteRate, shareRate = that count / view. Four decimals; null when the video has no views yet.
• ageDays = whole days since publishing, at least 1; viewsPerDay = view / ageDays, one decimal.
• Creator rollup uses only that creator's videos fetched in this run: medianViews averages the two middle values for an even count; postingSpanDays = days between the oldest and newest fetched video; videosPerWeek = videosFetched / max(1, postingSpanDays / 7). Span fields are null with fewer than two videos. Very large accounts (hundreds of thousands of uploads) may not list their videos; their creator row then has an empty rollup and the report says why.
• Zone names: tname is Bilibili's classic zone name; tnameV2 (the newer zone name) is filled when the video came from a ranking or popular list.
• Phone numbers and email addresses in titles, descriptions, bios and comments are replaced with [removed]. Authors appear only as public mid and nickname.

Run report. RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store lists requested vs delivered counts, per-source results (perCreator, perRegion, perKeyword), perVideoComments, what was skipped and why (skippedBy: budget, request quota, deadline, risk-control stop, rejected items), billed events, request statistics and a plain-English humanReadableReason whenever something was cut short.

Reliability and limits

• Proxy. Bilibili rejects most requests that come from outside mainland China — including Apify's own servers — so the default is the Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy in China. Its cost is on us, not you. With another proxy or a direct connection most requests are rejected, and the run usually stops within seconds with nothing delivered and nothing charged — keep the default.
• Pacing. Requests are sent one at a time with a short random pause (about 2 seconds per request in tests), so a default run takes about a minute, a full ranking board about 3–4 minutes and the largest default job about 18 minutes.
• Stops. A run stops early, keeps everything already delivered and explains why when (1) the spending cap is reached, (2) 1,500 requests have been made, (3) the run is close to its timeout, or (4) Bilibili rejects three requests in a row. Any run that delivers nothing costs $0; if Bilibili's rejections were the reason, the run is marked failed.
• Platform limits. Search returns at most 1,000 results per keyword; the ranking board has 100 videos per region.
• Creator video lists. Bilibili rejects many creator video-list requests at random, so each page is retried up to 8 times with pauses on fresh connections. If a creator's list still cannot be fetched, you get the profile row free, with an empty rollup, and the report says so.

What this Actor does not do

No login or account features, no danmaku, no subtitles or transcripts, no video or audio files, no live streams, no anime/film (OGV) catalogues, and no private or personal data beyond public nicknames and ids.

	This Actor	Typical alternatives
Keyword, URL, creator and ranking input in one run	✅	Usually one mode per run
Engagement rates and creator rollups in the rows	✅	Usually raw counts only
Comment replies with thread ids	✅	Varies
Danmaku, subtitles	❌	Some offer them
Pricing	Fixed per row, zero-delivery runs free	Varies

FAQ

Do I need a Bilibili account, cookies or an API key? No.

Can I search in English? Yes, but most Bilibili content is in Chinese; Chinese keywords return more relevant results.

Why do some search results look unrelated? Bilibili's search is fuzzy, like the website: for rare, misspelled or very long keywords it matches parts of the keyword. Use specific keywords and check title and tags before relying on a result.

Why did some videos not come back? Deleted, private or region-locked videos are listed in RUN_SUMMARY.perVideoUrl.unavailable; items Bilibili rejected are counted in skippedBy.blocked. Neither is charged.

Why do later videos have fewer comments? maxCommentsTotal is shared first come, first served in video order. Raise it, or lower commentsPerVideo, to spread comments further. A video can also simply have fewer comments than you asked for: its stats.reply count includes replies and comments Bilibili has folded or removed, so it is often higher than what can be listed. RUN_SUMMARY.perVideoComments shows each video's result and stop reason.

Can I schedule it or call it from n8n, Make or my own code? Yes. Input and output are plain JSON; use the Apify API, an Apify schedule or any integration that can start an Actor run.