Bilibili Scraper: Videos, Comments, Danmaku & Creators

What does Bilibili Scraper do?

Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, B站) is China's biggest video site for young people. This scraper turns it into clean rows for Excel, Google Sheets, your app or your AI agent. No login, no cookie, no API key.

It has six modes:

• Search videos by keyword, in Chinese or English. Get views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, danmaku count, comment count, tags, category, length, publish date and the author's follower count. Add as many keywords as you like in one run.
• Video details from video links, BV ids, av ids or b23.tv short links.
• Comments of any video, with their reply threads.
• Danmaku (弹幕, the bullet comments that fly over the video), one row each, with the exact second on the video.
• Creator profiles: followers, following, number of videos, total likes, level, verification and bio.
• Trending: Popular now, the Top 100 ranking by category (gaming, tech, music, food and more), and Bilibili's hot searches.

Why this one?

• Many keywords in one run. Each keyword is searched on its own and every row says which keyword found it.
• More than 1,000 videos per keyword. Bilibili stops at about 1,000 results per search. Ask for more (up to 5,000) and the scraper searches again in date windows to find them.
• Accurate. We checked the numbers against Bilibili's own video pages: views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, danmaku and comment counts all matched.
• More danmaku. Bilibili keeps two public danmaku pools that barely overlap. The scraper reads both and merges them, so you get far more bullet comments per video.
• Reliable. Every request retries on its own and switches connection if Bilibili slows it down. If one video fails, the rest of the run still finishes.
• Fair billing. You pay only for rows saved. Deleted or private videos, bad links and requests that stay blocked are skipped and not charged.

How much does it cost?

You pay per row saved (a video, a comment, a danmaku, a creator or a hot search). Check the Pricing tab for the current price. The "Max" settings let you control how many rows a run can save.

How to use it

1. Pick What to scrape.
2. Fill in the matching box: keywords, video links or creator ids. Trending needs nothing else.
3. Optional: sort, video length, date range, comments per video, danmaku per video.
4. Click Start. Download as Excel, CSV, JSON or HTML, or use the API.

Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keywords": ["机械键盘", "iPhone 17"],
  "sort": "views",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "publishedAfter": "2026-09-01",
  "includeComments": true,
  "maxCommentsPerVideo": 20
}

Output example

{
  "type": "video",
  "searchKeyword": "iPhone 17",
  "rank": 1,
  "bvid": "BV12Kpxz9Eyb",
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12Kpxz9Eyb",
  "title": "「小白」iPhone17全面测评：你想看的都在这了！",
  "author": "小白测评",
  "authorFollowers": 4729409,
  "category": "数码",
  "tags": "2025苹果秋季新品, 数码, iPhone17, A19芯片",
  "duration": "19:48",
  "publishedAt": "2025-09-17T12:00:00Z",
  "views": 2104350,
  "likes": 53238,
  "coins": 27040,
  "favorites": 11874,
  "shares": 8155,
  "danmakuCount": 12122,
  "commentCount": 5843
}

Every row has a type (video, comment, danmaku, creator or hotSearch). The output tabs Videos, Comments, Danmaku, Creators and Hot searches show the right columns for each.

A danmaku row looks like this:

{ "type": "danmaku", "videoBvid": "BV1FD4y197Cg", "time": "0:05", "timeSecs": 5.829, "text": "妈 看看 咋个样",
  "sentAt": "2020-12-15T11:21:12Z", "mode": "bottom", "color": "#E70012", "senderHash": "2cd342e8" }

Good to know

• Comments: Bilibili shows logged-out visitors only the top comments of a video (usually 3). This scraper never logs in, so you get those top comments plus their full reply threads, up to your limit. That is often dozens of comments per video, but not every comment.
• Danmaku: Bilibili keeps a limited pool of danmaku per video, not every one ever sent. Long, busy videos return thousands.
• Dates are in UTC. The date filter includes the whole "published before" day.
• Full stats (coins, shares, tags, author followers) need one extra request per video. They are on by default; turn them off for faster, lighter runs.
• senderHash is Bilibili's public, anonymous code for the danmaku sender. It lets you count unique senders, but it does not show who they are.

Use cases

• Brand and product research in China: what young Chinese viewers say about a brand, product or launch.
• Trend watching: schedule the Trending mode daily to see what is popular, by category.
• Creator and influencer research: compare creators by followers, likes and engagement.
• AI and NLP data: comments and danmaku as real Chinese conversation data.
• Market research for games, anime, tech, cars, food and more.

Is it legal?

It collects only public data that Bilibili shows to any logged-out visitor. It does not log in, solve captchas or collect private data. Check that your use follows Bilibili's terms and the law where you are.