# Bilibili Video Scraper (`leorochasantos/bilibili-videos`) Actor

A scraper for public Bilibili videos: keyword search results and single videos, with title, watch URL, uploader, publish time, duration, views, likes, favorites and tags. No login, no personal data, no media download.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/leorochasantos/bilibili-videos.md
- **Developed by:** [Leonardo Santos](https://apify.com/leorochasantos) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Videos, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 bilibili video rows

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{"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

```json
{"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.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

search: find public Bilibili videos by keyword. detail: resolve specific videos by BV id, av id or watch URL.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

search mode: keywords to run against the public Bilibili video search (e.g. python, 音乐, machine learning). Up to 10 keywords per run, CJK included.

## `videoUrls` (type: `array`):

detail mode: Bilibili videos as watch URLs (https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV…), BV ids (BV1xx411c7mD) or av ids (av12345). Deduplicated and capped at 50 per run.

## `maxItemsPerKeyword` (type: `integer`):

Hard local cap on rows delivered per keyword (1-50; one search page answers with 20 results).

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy for the public Bilibili API surface. Datacenter is the validated default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "keywords": [
    "python",
    "machine learning",
    "编程"
  ],
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1YaeN6xEWR"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerKeyword": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "python",
        "machine learning",
        "编程"
    ],
    "videoUrls": [
        "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1YaeN6xEWR"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("leorochasantos/bilibili-videos").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keywords": [
        "python",
        "machine learning",
        "编程",
    ],
    "videoUrls": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1YaeN6xEWR"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("leorochasantos/bilibili-videos").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "python",
    "machine learning",
    "编程"
  ],
  "videoUrls": [
    "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1YaeN6xEWR"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call leorochasantos/bilibili-videos --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,leorochasantos/bilibili-videos"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/uK1YZH5ERsWm1ukrl/builds/xvWEGUQ8RwnUbBqRz/openapi.json