Bilibili Scraper - Videos, Trending, Comments & Creator Leads

Scrape Bilibili (哔哩哔哩) — China's largest video community, ~340M monthly users — without a login, a browser or a cookie. Search videos by keyword, pull the trending feeds and partition leaderboards, read full comment threads, and profile creators (UP主) with follower reach, extracted business contacts and a 0-100 lead score.

Runs on plain HTTP against Bilibili's own web API. No headless browser, so a video costs about a third of a second and a run cannot stall into the timeouts that plague browser-based scrapers.

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What you get

One mode = one record type, so every CSV / Excel export has clean, full columns instead of the blank-cell mess you get when a scraper mixes shapes in one dataset.

Mode	Produces	Use it for
Video search	video rows	Find every video for a keyword, with filters for sort order, length, partition and publish date
Trending & rankings	video rows	Popular now (综合热门), partition leaderboards (排行榜), must-watch (入站必刷)
Specific videos	video rows	Full detail for URLs, BV IDs, av IDs or b23.tv share links
Creators (UP主)	creator rows	Influencer discovery, contact extraction and lead scoring
Comments	comment rows	Audience research, sentiment mining, community analysis

Video rows (60+ fields, all populated)

Title, description, cover, duration, publish time, partition and parent category, and the complete Bilibili stat block — views, danmaku (弹幕), comments, favourites, coins, shares and likes — plus computed engagementRate, likeRate, coinRate and favoriteRate. Also resolution, episode/part list, credited collaborators, copyright status, paid-promotion flags, real tag objects, and the uploader's follower count, upload count, total likes, bio, verification and extracted contact on every single row.

Bilibili's search endpoint returns a deliberately reduced record. This scraper hydrates every row from the full video API, so you get coins, shares, resolution, parts, collaborators and uploader stats that keyword-only scrapers leave blank.

Creator rows — the lead-gen wedge

Chinese creators publish their partnership contact in their bio: 商务合作请联系邮箱：bd@ysjf.com, 商务：STN_7349, 商务合作VX：yhtshe. This scraper parses all of those patterns — e-mail, WeChat, QQ, Weibo, phone and bare business handles — and scores each creator 0-100 on contactability, reach, recency and verification.

Measured on real trending creators: ~40% expose a reachable business contact. Every creator also carries followers, following, total likes received, per-type upload counts, verification, badge, and their recent uploads with average / peak reach.

Comment rows

Text, likes, reply count, pinned and uploader-reply flags, nested sub-replies, and the full author profile (UID, name, level, gender, bio, VIP and verification).

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Quick start

// Every video about a keyword, richest form
{ "mode": "search", "keywords": ["Minecraft", "原神"], "maxItems": 500 }

// What is trending in Tech and Gaming right now
{ "mode": "trending", "trendingSource": "ranking", "rankingPartitions": ["36", "4"] }

// Find food creators over 100k followers and pull their contacts
{ "mode": "creators", "creatorKeywords": ["美食"], "minFollowers": 100000, "maxItems": 200 }

// Read a video's comment thread
{ "mode": "comments", "videoUrls": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1uv411q7Mv"], "maxCommentsPerVideo": 500 }

Run it with no input at all and it returns a real sample from Bilibili trending — it never fails on empty input.

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Notes on coverage (measured, not claimed)

• publishLocation (the province an upload was posted from) is returned by Bilibili only on its list feeds. It is populated in Trending & rankings, and is genuinely absent from the search and single-video APIs — verified across three endpoint variants. It is left as an honest null rather than faked.
• Keyword search caps at ~1,000 results per sort order. Leave Search all sort orders on and the scraper walks every order and de-duplicates by video ID, reaching several thousand unique videos per keyword.
• Comments and search are anonymous. Nothing here needs your Bilibili account, so there is no session to expire and no cookie to babysit.
• A creator's own upload list is the one risk-controlled endpoint Bilibili exposes; the scraper retries it across IPs and falls back to a second verified endpoint, so recentVideos stays populated either way.

Output views

Three built-in dataset views — Videos, Creator leads and Comments — so the export you download is already shaped for the job.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

This actor works as a tool for AI assistants through the Apify MCP server. Point your agent at it and ask for Bilibili videos, trending rankings, comment threads or creator leads in natural language.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

Pricing

Pay-per-event, so you pay for results and nothing else:

Event	Price
Video scraped	$0.004
Creator lead	$0.008
Comment scraped	$0.001

A run that is throttled or matches nothing ends successfully with a status message and charges you nothing.

Legal

Collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the output in line with Bilibili's terms and applicable law, including data-protection rules where personal data is involved.