Bilibili Scraper & API - Videos, Comments, Danmaku (哔哩哔哩 / B站)

Scrape Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, B站), China's biggest video community, without login or cookies. Search videos by keyword (Chinese or English), get full details for any video link, list a creator's (UP主) latest uploads with their profile, pull the popular feed or the top-100 ranking, and collect comments and danmaku (弹幕 bullet comments) for every video found - all in one run. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it as an API.

What you get

• Videos: title, description, cover, length, publish time, category, tags, uploader, views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, comment and danmaku counts, BV/av id, cid, parts.
• Comments: text, likes, reply count, author (UID, name, level, avatar), time, pictures, and replies with their parent.
• Danmaku: text, the second in the video where it appears, color, mode, font size, sent time, sender hash.
• Creators: followers, following, video count, total likes, level, verification title, bio, avatar.

Why this scraper

• Everything in one run: mix keywords, video links, creators and a trending list - no "mode" switch per run.
• Raw danmaku rows, timestamped to the second of the video - ideal for reaction and highlight analysis.
• Search filters: sort by relevance, views, newest, danmaku, favorites or comments; video length; publish date range; up to 1,000 videos per keyword (Bilibili's own cap).
• Accepts any link format: BV… ids, av… ids, full URLs, b23.tv short links, creator UIDs, space.bilibili.com links or exact creator names.
• Low price per row (see Pricing) and no browser: fast and light.

Use cases

• Brand and product monitoring in China (gaming, anime, consumer electronics, EV, beauty).
• Influencer (KOL / UP主) discovery and tracking: followers, upload cadence, engagement per video.
• Audience sentiment from comments and danmaku for NLP / AI datasets.
• Trend research from the popular feed and the all-site ranking.

Input example

{
  "searchQueries": ["黑神话", "Genshin Impact"],
  "searchSort": "views",
  "maxVideosPerSearch": 100,
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nyeGz6EVs"],
  "creators": ["https://space.bilibili.com/946974"],
  "maxVideosPerCreator": 30,
  "trending": "popular",
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 50,
  "maxDanmakuPerVideo": 200,
  "maxItems": 2000
}

Output example

[
  {
    "type": "video",
    "bvid": "BV17x411w7KC",
    "aid": 170001,
    "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV17x411w7KC",
    "title": "【MV】保加利亚妖王AZIS视频合辑",
    "description": "sina 保加利亚超级天王 Azis1999年出道。他的音乐融合保加利亚名族曲风chalga和pop、rap等元素，不过他惊艳的易装秀与浮夸的角色诠释才是他最为出名的地方 Azis与众多保加利亚天王天后级歌手都有过合作.06年，他作为Mariana Popova的伴唱，在欧洲半决赛上演唱了他们的参赛曲Let Me Cr…",
    "coverUrl": "https://i2.hdslb.com/bfs/archive/1ada8c32a9d168e4b2ee3e010f24789ba3353785.jpg",
    "durationSec": 2412,
    "publishedAt": "2011-11-09T14:55:33Z",
    "category": null,
    "tags": [
      "保加利亚妖王",
      "保加利亚",
      "Азис",
      "azis",
      "mv"
    ],
    "authorMid": 122541,
    "authorName": "冰封.虾子",
    "authorFaceUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/face/40c46ee74dd6ea33d46c38cd6083e6a1286aa482.gif",
    "viewCount": 45819454,
    "danmakuCount": 915673,
    "commentCount": 184130,
    "favoriteCount": 877099,
    "coinCount": 294971,
    "shareCount": 42742298,
    "likeCount": 943174,
    "partsCount": 10,
    "cid": 279786,
    "isOriginal": false,
    "rank": null,
    "source": "video",
    "input": "170001",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T01:17:54Z"
  },
  {
    "type": "comment",
    "commentId": "273399537456",
    "rootCommentId": null,
    "parentCommentId": null,
    "isReply": false,
    "text": "接下来请选择你的英雄：\n黑神话·哪吒\n黑神话·杨戬\n黑神话·盘古\n黑神话·济公\n黑神话·许仙[doge_金箍][doge_金箍][doge_金箍]",
    "likeCount": 4944,
    "replyCount": 303,
    "createdAt": "2025-08-20T16:05:41Z",
    "authorMid": 693997440,
    "authorName": "花雨剑ovo",
    "authorLevel": 6,
    "authorFaceUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/face/ddb1e5c6461a6f03755464ca44e4d524a22fbb05.jpg",
    "ipLocation": null,
    "pictures": [],
    "videoBvid": "BV1nyeGz6EVs",
    "videoUrl": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nyeGz6EVs",
    "videoTitle": "《黑神话：钟馗》预告片解析——捉山中鬼易，斩心中鬼难！【毒舌的南瓜】",
    "source": "comments",
    "input": "BV1nyeGz6EVs",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T01:19:44Z"
  },
  {
    "type": "danmaku",
    "videoTimeSec": 20.85,
    "mode": 1,
    "fontSize": 25,
    "color": "#ffffff",
    "sentAt": "2026-10-07T07:03:31Z",
    "senderHash": "e7539434",
    "danmakuId": "2216818946467122432",
    "text": "啊？今夕何年？",
    "videoBvid": "BV1BTpP6eEfR",
    "videoUrl": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1BTpP6eEfR",
    "videoTitle": "【黑神话悟空 Reaction】做一个先驱，撒下燎原的种子",
    "source": "danmaku",
    "input": "黑神话",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T01:21:37Z"
  },
  {
    "type": "creator",
    "mid": 946974,
    "name": "影视飓风",
    "url": "https://space.bilibili.com/946974",
    "sign": "无限进步！｜商务合作请联系邮箱：bd@ysjf.com（邮件中麻烦备注公司、咨询内容）｜店铺名：影视飓风",
    "faceUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/face/c1733474892caa45952b2c09a89323157df7129a.jpg",
    "level": 6,
    "sex": "男",
    "followerCount": 18599469,
    "followingCount": 686,
    "videoCount": 947,
    "likeCount": 128414115,
    "isVerified": true,
    "verifiedTitle": "2025百大UP主、2023年度最高人气奖UP主、课堂优质讲师",
    "vipType": 2,
    "source": "creator",
    "input": "946974",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-09T01:16:30Z"
  }
]

Every row has type (video, comment, danmaku or creator), source, the input that found it and scrapedAt. Dates are ISO 8601 in UTC. The dataset has ready-made views for videos, comments, danmaku and creators.

Run it on a schedule and connect it to your tools

Schedule: in Apify Console open Schedules → Create, pick this actor and your input, and set it to run every Monday at 07:00 (your time zone) for a fresh dataset on a fixed day. Each run returns the full, current result set as a new dataset.

Integrations (Actor → Integrations tab, no code):

• Google Sheets — append every run's rows to a sheet.
• Make, Zapier, n8n — start the actor from a scenario/zap/workflow and use the rows in the next steps.
• Webhook — get a POST to your endpoint when a run succeeds, then download the dataset.
• Slack / email — notify your team when a scheduled run finishes.

AI agents (MCP) — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client can run it as a tool: add the Apify MCP server https://mcp.apify.com?actors=kalilfagundes.w/bilibili-scraper (sign in with your Apify account) and ask for the data in plain language. The agent fills the input from the input schema and reads the dataset back.

API — call it from your code (pip install apify-client / npm i apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("kalilfagundes.w/bilibili-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQueries": [
        "Genshin Impact"
    ],
    "searchSort": "views",
    "maxVideosPerSearch": 45,
    "videoUrls": [
        "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nyeGz6EVs"
    ],
    "creators": [
        "https://space.bilibili.com/946974"
    ],
    "maxVideosPerCreator": 12,
    "trending": "popular",
    "maxTrendingVideos": 25,
    "maxCommentsPerVideo": 0,
    "maxItems": 200
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('kalilfagundes.w/bilibili-scraper').call({
  "searchQueries": [
    "Genshin Impact"
  ],
  "searchSort": "views",
  "maxVideosPerSearch": 45,
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nyeGz6EVs"
  ],
  "creators": [
    "https://space.bilibili.com/946974"
  ],
  "maxVideosPerCreator": 12,
  "trending": "popular",
  "maxTrendingVideos": 25,
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 0,
  "maxItems": 200
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing

Pay only for the rows you get (launch offer, lower on higher Apify plans):

Row	Price
Video	$1.50 per 1,000
Comment	$0.50 per 1,000
Danmaku	$0.20 per 1,000
Creator profile	$2 per 1,000
Run start	$0.002

Example: 1,000 videos with 20 comments each = $1.50 + $10 = $11.50. maxItems and the per-input limits cap every run.

Limits and FAQ

• Comments without login: Bilibili shows guests only the first page of comments - the top and the newest top-level comments (up to about 40 per video) and the first 20 replies of each. The scraper collects all of that.
• Danmaku: Bilibili serves the latest danmaku pool of each video (1,500 for most videos, more for long ones).
• Search returns at most 1,000 videos per keyword; use several keywords or date ranges for more.
• Creator uploads come newest first with full stats (one request per video).
• Requests start without a proxy and switch to a fresh proxy IP when Bilibili rate-limits a session.
• Only public data is collected. No login, cookies or CAPTCHA solving.

Questions or a missing field? Open an issue on the Issues tab - feedback is answered quickly.

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