📺 Bilibili Scraper — B站爬虫 | Video & Comment Data Extraction API

Scrape Bilibili (哔哩哔哩/B站) videos, comments, and creator data by keyword search or direct video URL. The most comprehensive bilibili scraper and bilibili API tool for data extraction from China's largest video platform — 40+ data fields per video, full comment threads, creator analytics, and danmaku counts. No login required.

Features

• Keyword Search — Search Bilibili videos by keyword, get ranked results with full metadata
• Direct URL Mode — Scrape specific videos by BV ID or bilibili.com URL (no login, no cookie)
• 40+ Data Fields — Title, description, views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, danmaku count, duration, publish date, tags, cover image, and more
• Comments Scraper — Extract comments with author info, likes, reply count, timestamps
• Creator Info — Author name, avatar, mid, follower stats
• Sorting Options — Sort by comprehensive, most viewed, newest, most danmaku, most collected
• No Browser Needed — Uses Bilibili's public API directly via the bilibili api, no headless browser required
• Fast & Efficient — 500+ videos in under 60 seconds
• Chinese & English Keywords — B站爬虫 supports both Chinese and English search terms

Use Cases

• Content Research — Analyze trending topics, video performance benchmarks on B站
• KOL Discovery — Find top creators in a niche by engagement metrics
• Market Research — Understand Chinese audience interests and content trends
• Sentiment Analysis — Extract comments for NLP/sentiment analysis pipelines
• AI Training Data — Collect structured Chinese video metadata and comments for LLM fine-tuning
• Competitive Monitoring — Track competitor video performance on bilibili.com
• Academic Research — Study Chinese digital media patterns and user behavior
• Social Listening — Monitor brand mentions and audience reactions across Bilibili videos
• Price Monitoring — Track product review videos and consumer sentiment in Chinese markets

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchKeywords	array	No*	["人工智能"]	Keywords to search on bilibili
videoUrls	array	No*	[]	Direct BV IDs or bilibili.com URLs
maxResults	int	No	50	Max videos per keyword
extractComments	bool	No	false	Extract comments per video
maxComments	int	No	100	Max comments per video
sortBy	select	No	totalrank	Sort: comprehensive, views, newest, danmaku, favorites
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify proxy	Proxy config (residential recommended outside China)

*At least one of searchKeywords or videoUrls must be provided.

Output Fields

Video Object (40+ fields)

Field	Type	Description
bvid	string	Bilibili video ID (BV format)
aid	int	Bilibili video ID (AV format)
title	string	Video title (HTML tags stripped)
description	string	Video description
author	string	Creator name
mid	int	Creator user ID
authorAvatar	string	Creator avatar URL
viewCount	int	Total views
likeCount	int	Total likes
coinCount	int	Total coins (Bilibili virtual currency)
favoriteCount	int	Total favorites
shareCount	int	Total shares
danmakuCount	int	Total danmaku (bullet comments)
replyCount	int	Total comments
duration	string	Video duration (MM:SS or HH:MM:SS)
publishDate	string	ISO date string
coverUrl	string	Cover image URL
tags	array	Video tags
category	string	Video category name
url	string	Video URL on bilibili.com
comments	array	Comments (if extractComments=true)

Comment Object

Field	Type	Description
commentId	int	Comment ID
content	string	Comment text
author	string	Commenter name
authorMid	int	Commenter user ID
likes	int	Comment likes
replyCount	int	Number of replies
timestamp	string	ISO date string

How It Works

1. Input your keywords or URLs — Provide search keywords (e.g., "人工智能", "tech review") or direct BV/AV video URLs
2. API-based scraping — The actor calls Bilibili's public search and video info APIs directly (no headless browser)
3. Optional comment extraction — If enabled, fetches comment threads via Bilibili's reply API
4. Structured JSON output — Results are saved to the Apify dataset as clean, ready-to-use JSON

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

Event	Cost
Actor start (1GB RAM)	$0.005
Video scraped	$0.005
Comment extracted	$0.002

Example: 100 videos with 50 comments each = $0.005 + (100 × $0.005) + (5000 × $0.002) = $10.505

Technical Details

This bilibili video scraper uses Bilibili's public API endpoints directly:

• Search: api.bilibili.com/x/web-interface/search/type
• Video info: api.bilibili.com/x/web-interface/view
• Comments: api.bilibili.com/x/v2/reply/main

No headless browser is needed, making it fast and resource-efficient. The chinese video platform scraper works with Bilibili's cookie-based access system. Residential proxies are recommended when running from outside China to avoid IP-based rate limiting.

Runtime & SDK

• Runtime: Node.js 20
• SDK: Apify SDK v3 + Crawlee v3
• Execution: Single API calls, no browser overhead

Why Use This vs Alternatives?

Feature	This Actor	Bilibili Video Search	Bilibili Comments Scraper	TikTok/Douyin/Bilibili Scraper
Keyword search	✅	✅	❌	✅
Direct URL mode	✅	❌	✅	✅
Comment extraction	✅	❌	✅	✅
40+ video fields	✅	❌	❌	❌
Danmaku counts	✅	✅	❌	❌
Sorting options	✅	❌	❌	❌
No login required	✅	✅	✅	✅
Single-platform focus	✅	✅	✅	❌ (multi-platform)

FAQ

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