Bilibili Video Scraper

Scrape public Bilibili videos: run keyword searches on Bilibili's public video search, or resolve specific videos by URL / BV id / av id. Every row is flat, typed and null-safe for SEO research, content monitoring, spreadsheets and pipelines.

Why this actor?

• Two buyer-shaped modes: search (keyword search results) and detail (resolve exact videos).
• One flat row per video: title, watch URL, BV id, uploader, publish time, duration, views, danmaku, likes, favorites, replies, tags and cover URL.
• Hard local bounds on keywords and rows keep delivery and spend predictable.
• Empty keywords, malformed or non-Bilibili inputs, videos that no longer exist and risk-control-blocked fetches are free error rows.
• Public JSON surface only: no login, no personal data, no media download.

Input

{"mode":"search","keywords":["python"],"maxItemsPerKeyword":20}

For detail mode, set mode to detail and provide videoUrls.

Input	Meaning
mode	search (keyword search) or detail (resolve exact videos).
keywords	search mode: keywords, e.g. python, 机器学习, 音乐. Up to 10 per run.
videoUrls	detail mode: watch URLs (https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV…), BV ids or av ids, deduplicated and capped at 50.
maxItemsPerKeyword	Hard local cap of rows per keyword (1–50; a search page answers with 20).
proxyConfiguration	Proxy for the public Bilibili API surface; datacenter is the default.

Output

{"mode":"search","input":"python","source_type":"search","source":"python","bvid":"BV1rpWjevEip","aid":113006243481679,"url":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rpWjevEip","title":"【全748集】目前B站最全最细的Python零基础全套教程，2026最新版，包含所有干货！七天就能从小白到大神！少走99%的弯路！存下吧！很难找全的！","description":"【视频配套籽料、开发环境搭建安装包教程、电子书+问题解答请看 ”置顶平论” 自取哦】…","author":"Python官方课程","author_mid":3546597933714079,"published_at":"2024-08-22T14:59:18.000Z","duration_secs":143894,"duration_text":"2398:14","view_count":20015980,"danmaku_count":130047,"like_count":545223,"favorite_count":840434,"reply_count":349693,"tags":["程序员","Python教程","Python入门零基础"],"cover_url":"https://i2.hdslb.com/bfs/archive/a979056b1a32012cdd00d48fbc3732d253e30620.jpg","error":null,"scraped_at":"2026-09-19T10:00:00.000Z"}

Field	Meaning
mode	Which mode produced the row: search or detail.
input	The input exactly as provided (keyword, BV id, av id or watch URL).
source_type	search for keyword rows, detail for a resolved video reference.
source	Normalized source: the keyword, or BV…/av… in detail mode.
bvid	Bilibili video id (BV string) — the row's unique key.
aid	Numeric video id (aid).
url	Canonical public watch URL: https://www.bilibili.com/video/<bvid>.
title	Video title, search-keyword markup stripped.
description	Video description as published upstream; null when upstream carries none.
author	Uploader display name.
author_mid	Uploader numeric uid (mid).
published_at	Publish time, ISO 8601 (upstream unix pubdate).
duration_secs	Duration in seconds (search rows parse the MM:SS display string).
duration_text	Duration as displayed upstream, e.g. 04:32 or 2398:14.
view_count	View count.
danmaku_count	Danmaku (bullet-comment) count.
like_count	Like count.
favorite_count	Favorite count.
reply_count	Reply count.
tags	Upstream tag list; always an array (detail rows carry none, so []).
cover_url	Cover image URL, https-normalized.
error	Free per-input error message; null on video rows.
scraped_at	Extraction timestamp.

Pricing

Pay per event, and the platform usage is on us — the price you see is the price you pay, with no compute bill on top.

Event	Price	What one charge buys
Bilibili video row	$0.01	One delivered public Bilibili video row: title, watch URL, uploader, publish time, duration, views, danmaku, likes, favorites, replies, tags and cover URL. An empty keyword, a video reference that is not a Bilibili video, a video that no longer exists, and any blocked, 5xx or timeout fetch are free error rows and are never charged.
Actor Start	$0.002	One run, whatever it returns.

Higher Apify subscription tiers pay less on every event (Silver −20%, Gold −35%).

Notes

• detail mode accepts https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV…, m.bilibili.com watch URLs, bare BV ids (BV1xx411c7mD) and bare av ids (av12345). b23.tv short links are not resolved in v1 — they need an HTTP redirect the transport does not expose.
• Bilibili's risk control answers HTTP 412 (or a -412 JSON envelope) for rate-limited IPs; the actor rotates its proxy session and retries, and a fetch that never succeeds is a free error row.
• Videos that no longer exist answer -404 with HTTP 200 and are delivered as a free error row, never as an empty success.