Bilibili Scraper (哔哩哔哩): Videos, Comments, Danmaku, Creators

Collect Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, B站) data in bulk, without an account, cookies or API key: search results, full video details, every comment with its replies, danmaku (弹幕), creators with their videos and articles, trending lists and hot searches. Tick Translate to English to get an English version next to every Chinese text. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the Apify API.

$10 per 1,000 results (videos, comments, creators, articles, hot searches), $1 per 1,000 danmaku, plus a small start fee per run. Inputs not found and inputs that fail are not charged.

What you can get

Source	What comes back
Search terms	Videos (or creators, or articles) matching each term, with Bilibili's filters: sort, publication dates, video length, category. Past Bilibili's 1,000-result cap for videos: the run reads on, newest first.
Video links	One full record per video: views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, danmaku and comment counts, tags, category, parts, upload region, original or repost.
Creators	The profile (followers, level, verification, video and article counts), then the creator's videos and/or articles, newest first.
Trending	Popular now (综合热门), the ranking top 100 (排行榜) in 32 categories, for all videos, original works or newcomers, Must-watch (入站必刷) and hot searches (热搜).
Comments (option)	Every comment of each video, pinned first, each followed by its replies if you ask: text, likes, date, author with level and VIP status, pictures, liked or answered by the creator.
Danmaku (option)	The comments that fly over the video, with the second of the video where they show, the date, mode, color and part.
Related videos (option)	The videos Bilibili shows next to each video you give.

How deep it goes

Measured on 15 October 2026:

Run	Delivered	Time
One video, BV1SMJC6sE6R (2,647 comments announced), all comments with replies and all danmaku	1 video, 1,777 comments and replies, 601 danmaku, no duplicate	1 min 53 s
Search « iPhone 17 », 1,150 videos asked (past Bilibili's 1,000 cap), Full video details off	1,150 videos, no duplicate	49 s
Search « 原神 », 5 videos with comments, replies and danmaku	5 videos, 150 comments (97 replies, 3 pinned), 236 danmaku	52 s

Comments come page after page; the replies under a comment are read with it, so a thread stays together. The counter Bilibili shows under a video also counts comments it folds away or hides from visitors, so a video announcing 2,647 comments has fewer to deliver.

Quick start

1. Type a few Search terms (原神, iPhone 17…), or paste Videos or Creators, or pick a Trending list.
2. Tick Comments and/or Danmaku if you want them, and set the limits.
3. Click Start and read the results in the run's Output tab: one table for videos, one for comments, one for danmaku, and one each for creators, articles and trending searches.

Like any Apify Actor, it can also be run and read through the Apify API, scheduled, and connected to webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n or Apify's MCP server for AI agents.

Inputs

• Search terms, one per line, and Search for: videos, creators or articles.
• Videos: any of
  • a video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1SMJC6sE6R (with ?p=2 or other parameters, it works too)
  • a share link from the app: https://b23.tv/…, or the whole share text
  • a BV ID (BV1SMJC6sE6R) or an av number (av2)
• Creators: a channel link (https://space.bilibili.com/946974), a b23.tv share link, or the numeric user ID. From each creator, get: videos, articles, or both.
• Trending lists: popular, ranking, must-watch, hot searches. The ranking follows the category and its type: all videos, original works only (原创), or newcomers (新人).
• Search filters: sort (relevance, most viewed, newest, most danmaku, most favorited, most commented, most followers for creators), published after / before (a date, or a duration like 7 days), video length, category. Dates also apply to creators' lists.
• Max results per search, creator or list (20 by default).
• Full video details (on by default): opens each video's page for coins, shares, favorites, tags, category and parts. Off: the fields of the search or list only, faster and with the same price per record.
• Comments, Max comments per video, Comments order (top or newest), Replies, Max replies per comment.
• Danmaku, Max danmaku per video. Related videos.
• Translate to English (paid option): see below.
• Max results: total records the run delivers, all types together, counted exactly.

A line that is not a Bilibili link or ID gets an error record that says why, free; a creator link in Videos is pointed to Creators. The same video given several times, in several forms, is read and charged once.

Example, through the API:

{
  "searchQueries": ["原神"],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "publishedAfter": "7 days",
  "maxResultsPerSource": 200,
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 100,
  "maxItems": 10000
}

Output

Every record has a type: video, comment, danmaku, creator, article, hotSearch, or error (free). Real records from 15 October 2026:

A video:

{
  "type": "video",
  "videoId": "BV1SMJC6sE6R",
  "aid": "117442944697936",
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1SMJC6sE6R",
  "title": "《最有耐心の杀手》",
  "description": null,
  "coverUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/archive/75069b48e67ab49d01a0bd665fbcdb79ac48949b.jpg",
  "durationSeconds": 111,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-15T04:07:09Z",
  "category": "语言类小剧场",
  "categoryGroup": "小剧场",
  "categoryId": "2155",
  "tags": [
    "发现《年轮说》",
    "配音小剧场",
    "搞笑",
    "八嘎"
  ],
  "author": {
    "id": "3493260618106936",
    "name": "伤心欲茄222",
    "url": "https://space.bilibili.com/3493260618106936",
    "avatarUrl": "https://i1.hdslb.com/bfs/face/1f0cb64d9b62da7db7e6e020b78b6872dbffe55c.jpg"
  },
  "views": 1638179,
  "likes": 126338,
  "coins": 2326,
  "favorites": 5851,
  "shares": 2698,
  "danmakuCount": 669,
  "commentCount": 2647,
  "parts": [
    {
      "partId": "42755231574",
      "title": "《最有耐心の杀手》",
      "durationSeconds": 111
    }
  ],
  "isOriginal": null,
  "copyrightType": 3,
  "uploadLocation": null,
  "detailLevel": "full",
  "status": "ok",
  "input": "BV1SMJC6sE6R",
  "sourceType": "video",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T17:32:07.734Z"
}

A reply to a comment of that video:

{
  "type": "comment",
  "status": "ok",
  "commentId": "320756653104",
  "videoId": "BV1SMJC6sE6R",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1SMJC6sE6R",
  "videoTitle": "《最有耐心の杀手》",
  "text": "不好笑就别笑",
  "likes": 11,
  "replyCount": null,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-15T04:37:16Z",
  "isReply": true,
  "rootCommentId": "317107373521",
  "parentCommentId": "317107373521",
  "author": {
    "id": "26189986",
    "name": "-吃螃蟹不吐螃蟹皮--",
    "url": "https://space.bilibili.com/26189986",
    "level": 6,
    "isVip": true,
    "avatarUrl": "https://i1.hdslb.com/bfs/face/c7be45956bc393f058f98bacbc7078005b78f0f4.jpg"
  },
  "pictures": [],
  "likedByCreator": false,
  "repliedByCreator": false,
  "isPinned": false,
  "position": 2,
  "input": "BV1SMJC6sE6R",
  "sourceType": "video",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T17:32:27.746Z"
}

A danmaku of that video:

{
  "type": "danmaku",
  "status": "ok",
  "danmakuId": "2222528856009992960",
  "videoId": "BV1SMJC6sE6R",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1SMJC6sE6R",
  "partId": "42755231574",
  "text": "首位",
  "videoTimeSeconds": 0.637,
  "postedAt": "2026-10-15T04:08:05Z",
  "mode": "scrolling",
  "color": "#ffffff",
  "fontSize": 25,
  "userHash": "c6697d23",
  "input": "BV1SMJC6sE6R",
  "sourceType": "video",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T17:33:58.515Z"
}

Fields that need a word of explanation:

• detailLevel: full when the record comes from the video's own page; search or list when it has only the fields of the list it came from (with Full video details off, or when Bilibili did not serve the page at that moment: the run summary says how many).
• uploadLocation: the province or country Bilibili shows for the upload (IP属地). Bilibili gives it in its lists (search, related videos, rankings); a video given by its link alone may not have it.
• isOriginal: original work (自制) or repost (转载); copyrightType is the raw type, where Bilibili now also uses a third value (3) for many recent videos.
• category, categoryGroup, categoryId: Bilibili's category (in Chinese), its top-level group and its number.
• Comments: isReply, rootCommentId (the top comment of the thread) and parentCommentId (the comment it answers) rebuild the threads; position is the comment's rank in the order read; likedByCreator and repliedByCreator are the creator's own reactions.
• Danmaku: videoTimeSeconds is the moment of the video where it shows; userHash is the hash Bilibili gives for the sender, not an account.
• rank: position in the search, list or ranking; input and sourceType say where each record comes from.
• status: ok (delivered, charged). A video, creator or link that does not exist gets a record with status notFound, free. An input that fails gets an error record, free: error says why, retryable says if a later run may work.

The run summary (counts per input, notes, why the run stopped) is the OUTPUT record of the run's key-value store.

English translation (optional)

Tick Translate to English (translateToEnglish: true) and each record comes with its texts in English, next to the original: titleTranslation and descriptionTranslation for videos, translation for comments and danmaku, bioTranslation for creators, titleTranslation and summaryTranslation for articles. The original always stays, so you can check a phrase or quote it in Chinese. The translation is made by a large language model, in full, never summarized.

• It is charged only when all the texts of a record are translated (translationStatus: "ok"). Otherwise you get the record as usual, translationStatus: "failed" with the reason in translationError, and the translation is not charged.
• Texts already in English, and texts with only Bilibili emoticons such as [doge], are not translated and not charged (translationStatus: "notNeeded").
• Names of people, games and places can come out in more than one English spelling: when one matters, check it against the Chinese.
• Translations do not count toward Max results.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Price
Result: a video, comment, reply, creator, article or hot search	$10 per 1,000
Danmaku	$1 per 1,000
English translation (option)	$2 per 1,000 records translated
Run start	$0.005 per GB of memory (1 GB minimum; $0.005 at the default 512 MB)

Never charged: inputs not found, error records, duplicates (a video found by two searches is delivered once). Set Maximum cost per run in the run options and the run stops before going over it.

Limits

• Bilibili serves 1,000 results per search. For videos the run goes past it by reading on newest first; for creators and articles, 1,000 is the most a search gives.
• Bilibili's article search ignores publication dates. With dates, the run looks through the newest articles for your words, keeps those of your dates and sorts them itself (by views, comments or favorites); articles older than what that search reaches are not found this way (a creator's articles can be read by dates). The run says how far back it looked.
• Danmaku: you get what Bilibili shows a visitor, which for most videos is the whole track; the oldest danmaku of very busy videos are kept by Bilibili for signed-in users only.
• Comments Bilibili folds away or hides from visitors are not collected; the counter under a video includes them.
• Bilibili has no ranking for Anime and News, and its search has no filter for the newer categories (AI, Outdoors, Fitness, Parenting, Health, Relationships, Hobbies, Life tips, Short dramas, Vlog): the run says so in its summary and reads all categories. Anime series rankings (番剧) list series, not videos, and are not collected.

FAQ

Do I need a Bilibili account or cookies? No.

Can I get every comment of a video? Yes: set Max comments per video high enough and tick Replies for the replies too.

What if the run is restarted by the platform (migration or reboot)? It resumes where it was: records already in the dataset are not delivered or charged again.

Is it legal? It collects public data shown to any visitor of Bilibili. Check the rules that apply to your use of the data, especially for personal data. With Translate to English, the texts are sent to a language-model service that does not keep them to train its models.

Is anything different on Apify's free plan? The English translation option is available on paid Apify plans only; on the free plan the run collects everything else as usual and charges nothing for translation.

Does the Actor send anything to Quarra? Only when a run fails or runs out of time: the Actor, its build, the error type, the line of our code where it happened, and the memory and time the run was given, so we can fix it fast. Never your input, your results, your account or the run ID.