Bilibili Scraper - Trending, Search, Comments & Trend History

Independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, Shanghai Kuanyu Digital Technology). It reads the public pages and data that bilibili.com shows to every visitor.

Everything that is trending on Bilibili, as clean rows: the popular board (综合热门, up to 500 videos), the Top 100 rankings (排行榜) of 17 categories, every weekly must-watch issue since March 2019 (每周必看, 392 by September 2026), the all-time must-watch list (入站必刷) and the top 50 hot searches (热搜). Plus video search, video details (tags, honours such as "全站排行榜最高第1名"), comments with replies, danmaku (弹幕 bullet comments) and creator profiles (UP主 followers, videos, likes). Every video row has views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, danmaku, comments, an engagement rate, views per hour and an English category name.

Schedule it and it becomes a trend tracker: each row says when your runs first saw it on that board, how many runs saw it, its previous and best position, how many places it moved and how many views it gained since the last run.

Or let us do the scheduling: track any video or creator for up to 90 days (trackDays). Our server reads it every hour, also while the Actor is not running, and mode tracked returns the whole curve whenever you ask: views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, comments and danmaku hour by hour, follower growth and every new upload of a creator. Every video row also says how many hours the video has spent on the popular board and the rankings, from our hourly snapshots.

Why this one

• Hour-by-hour history without running anything hourly. trackDays: 30 on a few videos or creators, and our server reads them every hour for 30 days: a launch curve (views in the first hours, the day it peaked), follower growth after a campaign, each new upload of a competitor from its first hours. One run to start, one run to read (examples 18-21); about $0.30 per video for a month.
• The boards Bilibili itself promotes, not just search. Popular board, 17 category rankings, weekly must-watch and hot searches in one Actor, each row with its position on the board and Bilibili's own "why featured" line (e.g. "13万点赞").
• Trend history you build by scheduling. Run it hourly and every row carries firstSeenAt, timesSeen, previousPosition, positionChange, bestPosition and viewsGained; hot searches get heatChange, creators followersGained. onlyNew: true turns any board or search into a feed of what is newly trending.
• Seven years of weekly must-watch. Issue 1 (March 2019) to the latest, 46-49 videos in each recent issue, with the issue's week and theme on every row: what China's biggest video community watched, week by week. Exact likes, coins and views with includeDetails: true (one request per video); without it, Bilibili's rounded view counts.
• Numbers you can compare. Engagement rate (likes + coins + favorites + shares + comments per view), like rate, views per hour since upload, Bilibili's highestRank (the best all-site ranking position a video ever reached), creator followers, English names for Bilibili's categories.
• Fast and small. Measured 2026-09-30: the default run (100 popular videos) took about 6 seconds; the full popular board is 10 requests; two requests per video give its whole danmaku pool (9,600 danmaku on a 2.5-hour video); 1,500 comments of one video took 81 seconds.
• Low price per row: from $3.00 per 1,000 videos (price table).

What can you use it for?

• China market and trend research: what is trending today, which categories and creators dominate, what a week's must-watch says about youth culture.
• Brand and campaign monitoring: search your brand (in Chinese too: 耐克 for Nike), follow new videos with onlyNew, read the comments and danmaku of the videos that matter.
• Influencer (UP主 / KOL) discovery: find creators by topic, compare followers, likes and engagement, track follower growth over time.
• Content strategy: which titles, lengths and categories reach the popular board, and how fast views grow there.
• Datasets for NLP and AI: Chinese titles, tags, comments and time-coded danmaku.
• AI agents: "what is trending on Bilibili in gaming today, and how fast is it growing?" answered from rows.

Quick start

1. Click Try for free (or Start) with the default input: the top 100 videos of the popular board with full stats. About 6 seconds; about $0.30 on the Free plan.
2. Pick a mode (rankings, weekly must-watch, hot searches, search, videos, comments, danmaku, creators) and set maxItems.
3. Save the input as a task and schedule it (hourly or daily) to build the trend history; export CSV, Excel or JSON.

Copy to your AI assistant

Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude or any agent so it knows how to use the Actor:

crawlplant/bilibili-trending-history on Apify: Bilibili (哔哩哔哩) data, one row per video / comment / danmaku / hot
search / creator. Input: mode = "popular" (default; the popular board, up to 500 videos) | "ranking" (Top 100 per
rankingCategories: all, animation, chinese-animation, music, dance, gaming, knowledge, tech, sports, cars, life, food,
animals, kichiku, fashion, entertainment, film-tv) | "weekly" (weeklyIssues: "latest", "392", "380-392"; issue 1 =
March 2019) | "mustWatch" (all-time list) | "hotSearches" (top 50) | "search" (searchQueries; searchType videos|creators;
sortBy relevance|views|newest|danmaku|favorites; durationFilter any|under10|10to30|30to60|over60; searchCategory;
publishedAfter/publishedBefore "2026-09-01" or "7 days") | "videos" / "comments" / "danmaku" (videos: BV ids, av numbers
or URLs; commentsSort hot|newest, maxCommentsPerVideo, includeReplies, maxRepliesPerComment (5); maxDanmakuPerVideo) | "creators" (creators: ids or
space.bilibili.com URLs; creatorVideos 0-50). Options: includeDetails (tags, honours, exact counts), minViews,
trackHistory (true), onlyNew, historyKey, maxItems (100).
Video row: board, position, bvid, aid, url, title, description, coverUrl, publishedAt, ageHours, durationSeconds,
duration, category, mainCategory, mainCategoryEn, authorMid, authorName, authorUrl, authorFollowers, views, likes, coins,
favorites, shares, danmaku, comments, statsApproximate, engagementRatePct, likeRatePct, viewsPerHour, highestRank,
recommendReason, publishLocation, tags, honors, rankingCategory, weeklyIssue, weeklyIssueSubject, weeklyStartDate,
weeklyEndDate, searchQuery, firstSeenAt, timesSeen, isNew, previousSeenAt, previousPosition, positionChange (+ = up),
bestPosition, viewsGained, viewsGainedPerHour. Comment row: videoBvid, position, commentId, rootId, isReply, text, likes,
replyCount, publishedAt, authorName, authorMid, authorLevel, isUploader, isPinned, videoCommentsTotal. Danmaku row:
videoBvid, part, videoTimeSeconds, videoTime, text, sentAt, mode, color, fontSize, poolSize. Hot search row: position,
keyword, heatScore, label (new|hot|live|meme), searchUrl + tracking fields, heatChange. Creator row: mid, url, name,
followers, following, videos, likes, level, verifiedTitle, sign, recentVideos, followersGained.

Modes

Ready-to-use examples

Paste one into the JSON tab of the input. Costs are for the Free plan (see pricing).

1. Top 100 of the popular board right now (the default, ~$0.30)

{}

2. The whole popular board with tags and honours (500 videos, ~$2.50)

{ "maxItems": 500, "includeDetails": true }

3. Hourly monitor: only videos that are new on the popular board since the last run

{ "mode": "popular", "onlyNew": true, "maxItems": 500, "historyKey": "hourly-popular" }

4. Gaming and knowledge Top 100 (200 videos, ~$0.60)

{ "mode": "ranking", "rankingCategories": ["gaming", "knowledge"], "maxItems": 200 }

5. Every category's Top 100 (1,700 videos, ~$5.10)

{ "mode": "ranking", "rankingCategories": ["all", "animation", "chinese-animation", "music", "dance", "gaming", "knowledge", "tech", "sports", "cars", "life", "food", "animals", "kichiku", "fashion", "entertainment", "film-tv"], "maxItems": 1700 }

6. This week's must-watch issue (~$0.15)

{ "mode": "weekly" }

7. Weekly must-watch history: every issue of the last year (~2,400 videos)

{ "mode": "weekly", "weeklyIssues": ["341-392"], "maxItems": 3000 }

8. Top 50 hot searches, with rank moves since your last run (~$0.03)

{ "mode": "hotSearches" }

9. Most-viewed videos about a keyword from the last 30 days

{ "mode": "search", "searchQueries": ["原神"], "sortBy": "views", "publishedAfter": "30 days", "maxItems": 200 }

10. Brand monitor: newest videos mentioning a brand, only new ones each run

{ "mode": "search", "searchQueries": ["耐克", "Nike"], "sortBy": "newest", "onlyNew": true, "maxItems": 200 }

11. Find creators (UP主) by topic, with followers and latest uploads

{ "mode": "search", "searchType": "creators", "searchQueries": ["数码测评"], "maxItems": 50 }

12. Details of specific videos (stats, tags, honours, creator)

{ "mode": "videos", "videos": ["BV1Gtap6NEPB", "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV14Baa6JENd"] }

13. 500 hot comments of a video, with replies (~$0.75)

{ "mode": "comments", "videos": ["BV14Baa6JENd"], "maxCommentsPerVideo": 500, "includeReplies": true, "maxItems": 500 }

14. Newest comments of several videos

{ "mode": "comments", "videos": ["BV1Gtap6NEPB", "BV14Baa6JENd"], "commentsSort": "newest", "maxCommentsPerVideo": 100, "maxItems": 200 }

15. 2,000 danmaku of a video, spread over its whole length (~$0.60)

{ "mode": "danmaku", "videos": ["BV1Gtap6NEPB"], "maxDanmakuPerVideo": 2000, "maxItems": 2000 }

16. Creator follower tracker with each creator's 10 newest videos

{ "mode": "creators", "creators": ["946974", "https://space.bilibili.com/15634833"], "creatorVideos": 10 }

17. The all-time must-watch list

{ "mode": "mustWatch" }

18. Track three videos hour by hour for 30 days (~$0.90 + $0.015 for the rows)

{ "mode": "videos", "videos": ["BV1GJ411x7h7", "BV1UGa961Ejt", "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Gtap6NEPB"], "trackDays": 30 }

19. Track competitors' channels for 90 days: followers and every new upload

{ "mode": "creators", "creators": ["946974", "15634833"], "trackDays": 90 }

20. The history of everything you track, one point per day

{ "mode": "tracked" }

21. One video's hour-by-hour curve

{ "mode": "tracked", "videos": ["BV1GJ411x7h7"], "historyResolution": "hourly" }

How to…

Get Bilibili trending videos today

Run the default input: the popular board in Bilibili's order, with views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, danmaku, comments, engagement rate and the featured reason. maxItems: 500 gives the whole board.

Scrape the Bilibili ranking (排行榜) by category

mode: "ranking" with rankingCategories (gaming, knowledge, tech, music, ...): 100 videos per category, in ranking order, with the author's follower count.

Bilibili weekly must-watch (每周必看) history since 2019

mode: "weekly" with weeklyIssues: "latest", one number or ranges such as "1-52" (2019) or "341-392" (the last year). Each row has the issue number, theme, week start and end date and the video's place in the issue. Add includeDetails: true for exact views, likes, coins and favorites (Bilibili shows rounded figures in the issue list).

Track Bilibili trends hourly: rank moves and views gained

Save any board as a task and schedule it hourly. From the second run on, each row says timesSeen, previousPosition, positionChange (+3 = moved up three places), bestPosition and viewsGained / viewsGainedPerHour since the previous run. timesSeen × your schedule interval ≈ how long a video has stayed on the board.

Track a Bilibili video's views hour by hour (no schedule needed)

Run videos mode with the videos and trackDays (1-90, example 18): you get their details now, and our server reads their views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, comments and danmaku every hour from then on. Any time later,

mode: "tracked"

Track a Bilibili creator's growth and new uploads

creators mode with trackDays (example 19): followers, video count and likes every hour, and each video the creator uploads while tracked is read hourly from its first hours. Mode tracked gives followersGained24h, followersGained7d, followersGainedTracked, the history series and newUploads with their latest views.

Bilibili hot search list (热搜) as data

mode: "hotSearches": the top 50 keywords with heat score, badge (new, hot, live, meme) and a search link; scheduled, each row also gets heatChange, positionChange and isNew.

Search Bilibili videos by keyword

mode: "search" with searchQueries, sorted by relevance, views, newest, danmaku or favorites, filtered by length, category and publish dates. Keywords in Chinese find the most.

Scrape Bilibili comments

mode: "comments" with video ids or URLs: hot or newest order, up to maxCommentsPerVideo, with includeReplies for the replies under each comment. Each row has likes, reply count, time, author name and level, and whether the uploader wrote it.

Download Bilibili danmaku (bullet comments)

mode: "danmaku": each danmaku with the second of the video it appears at (videoTimeSeconds), when it was sent, its text, mode (scroll, top, bottom) and colour. Larger pools are sampled evenly across the video, so peaks stay visible.

Track Bilibili creator (UP主) followers

mode: "creators" with creator ids or profile URLs, scheduled daily: followers, videos, likes and followersGained since the last run. creatorVideos adds their newest uploads.

Find Bilibili influencers by keyword

mode: "search", searchType: "creators": creators whose name matches, with followers, number of videos, verification, bio and their three latest uploads.

Input options

Example output

A popular-board row (4th run of an hourly schedule, trimmed):

{
  "recordType": "video",
  "board": "popular",
  "position": 2,
  "bvid": "BV1i4aL6QEYX",
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1i4aL6QEYX",
  "title": "手绘465张！One Last Kiss【EVA30周年回忆重逢计划】",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T16:49:06.000Z",
  "ageHours": 32,
  "duration": "1:50",
  "category": "绘画",
  "mainCategoryEn": "Art",
  "authorName": "棕与灰9",
  "authorUrl": "https://space.bilibili.com/360861964",
  "views": 1007125,
  "likes": 143790,
  "coins": 49172,
  "favorites": 22663,
  "shares": 4181,
  "danmaku": 427,
  "comments": 1095,
  "engagementRatePct": 21.93,
  "likeRatePct": 14.28,
  "viewsPerHour": 31472.7,
  "highestRank": 14,
  "recommendReason": "13万点赞",
  "publishLocation": "北京",
  "firstSeenAt": "2026-09-30T00:31:20.688Z",
  "timesSeen": 4,
  "isNew": false,
  "previousPosition": 2,
  "positionChange": 0,
  "bestPosition": 2,
  "viewsGained": 1838,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T00:47:20.394Z",
  "source": "live",
  "store": "bilibili"
}

Output fields

Video rows (recordType: "video"):

Comment rows: videoBvid, videoUrl, position, sort, commentId, rootId / parentId (for replies), isReply, text, likes, replyCount, publishedAt, authorMid, authorName, authorLevel, isUploader, isPinned, videoCommentsTotal. Danmaku rows: videoBvid, cid, part, danmakuId, videoTimeSeconds, videoTime, text, sentAt, mode, fontSize, color, pool, poolSize. Hot search rows: position, keyword, displayName, heatScore, label, iconUrl, searchUrl, the tracking fields and heatChange. Creator rows: mid, url, name, sign, avatarUrl, level, followers, following, videos, likes, verifiedTitle, verifiedType, isLive, liveRoomUrl, recentVideos, position, searchQuery, firstSeenAt, previousSeenAt, followersGained.

Tracked rows (mode tracked): recordType: "trackedVideo" with bvid, url, title, authorName, publishedAt, trackedSince, trackedUntil, trackingActive, unavailable (deleted or private since), statsAt and the latest views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, comments, danmaku, viewsGained24h, viewsGained7d, viewsGainedTracked, likesGainedTracked, points, history (at + the seven counts) and boardHistory; recordType: "trackedCreator" with mid, url, name, the tracking window, followers, videos, likes, followersGained24h, followersGained7d, followersGainedTracked, newUploads and history.

Alerts and scheduling

• Trending tracker: schedule example 1 or 3 every hour; send new rows to Google Sheets, Slack or e-mail with an Apify integration. Filter on isNew or positionChange for alerts.
• Daily category report: example 4 or 5 every morning (China time) for the day's Top 100s.
• Weekly digest: example 6 every Friday after 18:00 China time (10:00 UTC), when the new must-watch issue is out.
• Brand watch: example 10 every few hours; only new videos come back, so each run costs only what is new.
• Webhooks: add a webhook on "run succeeded" to push the dataset into your own system.

Run it through the API

JavaScript:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('crawlplant/bilibili-trending-history').call({ mode: 'ranking', rankingCategories: ['gaming'] });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const v of items) console.log(v.position, v.title, v.views, v.positionChange);

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("<APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("crawlplant/bilibili-trending-history").call(run_input={"mode": "hotSearches"})
for h in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(h["position"], h["keyword"], h["heatScore"], h["isNew"])

Use with AI agents

Add the Actor as a tool through Apify's MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=crawlplant/bilibili-trending-history. An agent can ask for today's popular board, a category's Top 100, the hot searches, a keyword search or one video's comments, and read flat fields (numbers, ISO dates, English category names) straight from the rows. Chinese titles, tags and comments are kept as published, ready for an LLM to translate or summarise.

How much does it cost to scrape Bilibili?

Pay per row: platform usage is included.

Each row is charged once, at its row price. Rows removed by minViews or onlyNew are not charged. Tracking days are charged when a run starts or extends tracking, and only for days not already paid for.

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options to stop a large run at your budget.

Other Bilibili Actors on the Apify Store, Free-plan prices read from the Store on 2026-09-30:

Reliability

• Every request that fails is retried, and a refused address is replaced by another route; the run goes on with what it has and never fails because one page or one video could not be read.
• The run always finishes: it stops starting new requests shortly before the time limit and saves what it has.
• Every run writes a summary to the key-value store (OUTPUT): rows saved, requests, data read, warnings (a page that could not be read, ids not understood, videos not found) and the events charged.
• Each record is checked against the output schema before it is saved; a malformed one is skipped and counted.

Data freshness

Every run reads Bilibili at that moment. The popular board and rankings update through the day, hot searches every few minutes, the weekly must-watch every Friday at 18:00 China time. Counts (views, likes...) are Bilibili's current figures, which it refreshes every few minutes. Trend fields compare with your own previous run of the same board. Tracked videos and creators and the board snapshots are read by our server every hour; a new subscription gets its first reading within the hour.

Troubleshooting

• Fewer rows than expected: maxItems defaults to 100; with several search keywords it is shared between them. minViews and onlyNew remove rows before they are counted.
• isNew is null / viewsGained is empty: the first tracked run of a board has nothing to compare with; the second run fills them. Different tasks share the history of a board unless you set historyKey.
• coins or shares are null: rankings and search lists don't include them; includeDetails: true reads them.
• statsApproximate: true: the counts are Bilibili's rounded display figures; includeDetails: true gives exact ones.
• A video is "not found": deleted, private, or not shown in every region.
• A search returns few videos: try the Chinese keyword, a wider date range or no category.
• b23.tv links: open them in a browser and paste the full bilibili.com URL.

FAQ

How much does it cost to scrape Bilibili?

About $0.30 for the default run of 100 trending videos; $3.00 per 1,000 videos, $1.50 per 1,000 comments, $0.30 per 1,000 danmaku. See the price table.

Is there a Bilibili API?

Bilibili has no open API for developers outside China. This Actor gives the same public data as clean JSON, CSV or Excel, through Apify's API, with no key or account at Bilibili.

How do I see how long a video stayed trending?

Every video row has hoursOnPopular and boardHistory: the hours it has spent on the popular board and each category ranking in our hourly snapshots, when it entered and left, and its best position. No schedule needed. Your own schedule adds timesSeen, firstSeenAt and bestPosition per board as your runs saw them.

How far back does the history go?

The weekly must-watch archive goes back to issue 1 (March 2019). Our server has snapshotted the popular board, the 17 rankings and the hot searches every hour since October 2026; a tracked video or creator has its series from the hour you start tracking it (and earlier hours if it was on the popular board). Your own board tracking keeps rows seen in the last 14 days.

Can I get comments and danmaku of trending videos?

Yes: run a board, take the bvid values and run comments or danmaku mode with them (or chain two tasks with a webhook).

Does it translate titles?

Titles, tags and comments stay in the original Chinese; category names also come in English (mainCategoryEn).

Is it legal to scrape Bilibili?

The Actor reads public pages without logging in, at a polite pace. Comments and profiles contain personal data (user names, ids, texts): collect only what you need and check data protection law (GDPR, China's PIPL, CCPA) and Bilibili's terms for your use case.

Limits

• Popular board: 500 videos. Rankings: 100 per category. Search: 1,000 results per keyword and filter combination.
• Comments: 20 per request, maxCommentsPerVideo up to 5,000 (1,500 measured in one run); replies: up to 20 under each comment.
• Danmaku: the pool Bilibili keeps for each video part (from about 1,000 to 8,000+).
• Creator uploads: the 50 newest per creator.
• Trend history keeps rows seen in the last 14 days, up to 20,000 per board.
• Tracking: up to 200 videos and creators per account at a time, up to 90 days per run (a later run extends it); mode tracked returns the last 90 days of each series.

Privacy

Video and creator data is what Bilibili shows publicly. Comment rows include commenters' public names, ids and texts; danmaku rows leave out the sender entirely. The trend history is stored only in your own Apify account (key-value store bilibili-trending-history: video ids, keywords, positions and counts, no texts). Videos and creators you track with trackDays are kept on our server with a one-way hash of your Apify account id (so mode tracked can list them), never the id itself; their public counts are shared data, the same series for everyone who reads them. Each run sends the developer anonymous feature-usage statistics (the mode and which options were used, never your keywords, videos or creators); your Apify account id is replaced by a one-way hash on arrival.