Bilibili Scraper — Videos, Comments, Danmaku & Creators

Bilibili (B站) as data, no login. Search videos or creators by keyword, pull full stats for any video link, collect comments with replies, sample danmaku (on-screen comments), read the Popular list or any category's top-100 ranking, and look up creators and their uploads. One actor, eight modes, one row per item.

Use it to track what is trending on B站 for a game, product or brand, measure how audiences react in comments and danmaku, or build creator shortlists ranked by followers.

What you can collect

Mode	You give	You get
search	a keyword	videos (or creators with searchType: creator), sortable by best match, plays, newest, danmaku, favourites or comments; filter by video length and publish dates
video_detail	video links	full stats per video: plays, likes, coins, favourites, shares, comments, danmaku, tags, length, creator follower count
comments	video links	comments and the replies under them, with likes, reply count, time, username, user ID, user level, and whether the creator replied
danmaku	video links	danmaku rows sampled evenly across the video: text, the second it appears, time sent, display mode, colour
popular	nothing	Bilibili's Popular-now list with full stats and the reason Bilibili gives for featuring it
ranking	a category	the daily top-100 for one of 16 categories (games, music, tech, food…) with rank position
creator_profile	names, UIDs or space links	followers, following, video count, bio, level, verification, latest uploads
creator_videos	creator names	the creator's videos, newest first

Every mode that returns videos can also add, per video: full details (fetchFullDetails), comments (includeComments), danmaku rows (includeDanmaku) and a free danmaku summary (includeDanmakuSummary: busiest minute, most repeated lines, positive/negative share).

Who uses this

• Market and trend researchers following a topic, brand or product on Bilibili.
• Game and entertainment studios reading audience reaction through comments and danmaku.
• Influencer and creator teams finding channels in a niche, ranked by followers.
• Builders and AI agents that need structured Bilibili data without handling Bilibili's request signing themselves.

Sample output

Output fields of this actor.

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
apify-actor-start	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005
apify-default-dataset-item	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335
addon-sentiment-scored	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
addon-social-handles-extracted	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10

A small start fee plus one item charge per delivered row: a video, creator, comment or danmaku row each counts as one. The two optional add-ons bill per row only when you turn them on (social handles only on video and creator rows).

Input

Field	Default	What it does
mode	search	One of the eight modes above.
keyword	—	Search words, Chinese or English (search).
searchType	video	video or creator (search).
sortOrder	totalrank	Video search order: totalrank, click, pubdate, dm, stow, scores.
creatorSortOrder	default	Creator search order: default, fans, level.
durationFilter	any	any, under10, 10to30, 30to60, over60 (minutes).
publishedAfter / publishedBefore	—	Date window for video search, like 2026-09-01.
videoUrls	—	BV ids, av ids, video links or b23.tv short links.
creators	—	Creator names, UIDs or space.bilibili.com links.
rankingCategory	all	Category for ranking.
max_results	30	Total rows delivered across all row types (1–5000).
fetchFullDetails	false	Read each video's page for likes, coins, shares, tags, follower count.
includeComments / includeReplies	false / true	Add comment rows, with or without replies.
commentSort	hot	hot (top) or time (newest).
maxCommentsPerVideo	50	Comments plus replies per video.
includeDanmaku / danmakuSampleSize	false / 200	Add danmaku rows, spread evenly over the video.
includeDanmakuSummary	false	Free danmaku profile on each video row.
addonSentimentScored	false	Sentiment on each row (paid add-on).
addonSocialHandlesExtracted	false	Public social links from video and creator descriptions (paid add-on).

Example: full stats, top comments and a danmaku summary for two videos.

{"mode": "video_detail", "videoUrls": ["BV1Fspj66E66", "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1VVpo6gEYg/"], "includeComments": true, "includeDanmakuSummary": true}

Output

Each row has a result_type: video, creator, creator_profile, comment or danmaku. Real rows from a test run (shortened):

{"result_type": "video", "bvid": "BV1Fspj66E66", "title": "“这波秒开仙人，直接把六小龄童看呆了！”", "author": "荒草音乐",
 "play_count": 5714378, "like_count": 438277, "coin_count": 28099, "favorites": 84783, "share_count": 5627,
 "comment_count": 5255, "danmaku_count": 1640, "author_follower_count": 482714, "duration": "1:51",
 "published_at": "2026-10-11T07:20:03Z",
 "danmaku_summary": {"danmaku_read": 600, "busiest_minute": 1, "top_lines": [{"text": "仙之人兮列如麻", "count": 13}]}}
{"result_type": "comment", "comment_id": "316791314977", "root_comment_id": "320366554272", "is_reply": true,
 "text": "哦原来原片是西游记啊，感谢up指路[滑稽]", "like_count": 2055, "posted_at": "2026-10-11T16:16:23Z",
 "username": "ShineYao闪耀", "user_id": "6996895", "user_level": 6, "is_creator_reply": false}
{"result_type": "danmaku", "text": "大圣风采依旧啊！", "video_time_seconds": 0, "danmaku_mode": "scrolling", "color_hex": "#ffffff"}

Every row also carries source, source_url, licence, attribution and observed_at. An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT lists rows by type, comments per video, requests made and anything that failed.

Honest limitations

• Comments without a login. Bilibili shows logged-out visitors the top comments on a video (usually 3, plus any pinned one) and up to 20 replies under each. This actor never logs in, so that is the ceiling per video.
• Creator uploads come through search. creator_videos searches Bilibili by the creator's name and keeps only their own videos. Recent uploads come through well; very old ones may be missed. Give the name, not just the UID.
• A UID alone gives counts, not a name. creator_profile with only a UID returns followers, following and video counts; give the name for bio, level and verification.
• Live numbers. Plays, likes and rankings change by the minute; each row has observed_at.
• Privacy. Names are the public display names people chose on Bilibili. No email, phone, gender, birthday or location is collected, and email- or phone-shaped text is removed from comments and descriptions.

The add-ons

Sentiment scores each row with a bilingual word list: titles and descriptions for videos, the text itself for comments and danmaku. Social handles pulls the public links a creator lists in a video or channel description (Weibo, Douyin, X, YouTube, plain links), never emails or phone numbers, and is only charged on video and creator rows. The danmaku summary is free.

Use with AI agents and schedules

Rows are flat JSON with stable record_ids, so an agent can call this actor as a tool: "show me today's top-10 game videos on Bilibili and what viewers are saying" is one call with mode: ranking, rankingCategory: games, includeComments: true. On a schedule, a saved search or ranking becomes a daily trend feed.

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Source: Bilibili (bilibili.com), public data as shown to a logged-out visitor, reformatted to per-item rows linking back to the source.

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