# Changelog of Bilibili Scraper — Video, UP主, Comments & Search (`sian.agency/bilibili-video-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/bilibili-video-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/bilibili-video-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to **Bilibili Video Scraper** will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-09-21]

- Added the missing dataset overview so task pages and Console output can render Bilibili results.

### \[2026-06-20]

- 🧯 **Graceful gateway-error handling.** Temporary upstream error pages are now retried and routed cleanly instead of surfacing as confusing parsing failures.

### \[2026-05-14]

#### 🎉 Bilibili Video Scraper — Launch!

- **Eight Operations in One Actor** — `videoDetail`, `userDetail`, `userRelationStat`, `userVideos`, `videoComments`, `videoDanmu`, `videoCaption`, and `searchVideo` — pick what you need per run, pay only for what you use. The widest-coverage Bilibili scraper on the Apify store.
- **Danmaku (Bullet Chat) Extraction** — pull Bilibili's signature overlay comments (弹幕) with timestamps, text, mode, color, font size, and user hash. The only Bilibili actor on Apify that exposes this dataset cleanly.
- **BigInt-Safe Video IDs** — Bilibili `aid` / `cid` / `rpid` / `dmid` IDs routinely exceed 16 digits and silently corrupt with naive JSON parsers. We parse with `json-bigint` and return every ID as a clean string — no precision loss on JSON round-trips or database inserts.
- **AI Subtitle URLs for ML Pipelines** — fetch Bilibili's auto-generated `ai-zh` / `ai-en` subtitle JSON URLs for any video. Feed them into translation, summarization, parallel-corpus, or video-search training pipelines.
- **Keyword Search at Scale** — paginate `searchVideo` end-to-end (~20 results/page, up to 1,000 videos per run). Chinese + English + mixed query support.
- **UP主 Deep Dive** — full creator profile (bio, level, VIP, official verification, live room, school, profession, join date) plus a cheaper relation-stat endpoint when you only need follower / following / whisper counts.
- **Paginated Comments with Sub-Reply Samples** — every comment row includes a sample of its first 5 sub-replies (no second roundtrip needed for shallow trees).
- **Silent Backup Data Source** — automatic failover if the primary feed is throttled or unavailable. Your scheduled runs don't break.
- **Pay-Per-Result Pricing** — charged only on successful rows, never on errors. No subscriptions, no minimums.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- **Save hours per week** on Bilibili creator research — no scripts, no Selenium, no proxy rotation, no `wbi-sign` reverse-engineering.
- **Get clean, BigInt-safe IDs** — every numeric ID survives the dataset → JSON → database pipeline without silent precision loss.
- **Tap unique Bilibili data** — danmaku and AI subtitle URLs are exclusive Bilibili data sources you can't get from a general video scraper.
- **Cross-border friendly** — no Bilibili account or Chinese phone number required.
- **Production-ready from day one** — built-in retry-with-backoff, silent backup data source, and HTML run reports.

#### 📊 Launch Pricing (BRONZE → DIAMOND volume curve)

- **Search Videos** — headline op, $0.004 per row at BRONZE
- **Video Comments** — $0.004 per row at BRONZE
- **User Videos** — $0.003 per row at BRONZE
- **Video Danmaku** — $0.002 per row at BRONZE
- **Video Detail** — $0.040 per row at BRONZE (deep payload)
- **User Profile** — $0.040 per row at BRONZE (deep payload)
- **User Relation Stat** — $0.025 per row at BRONZE (lightweight)
- **Video Caption Metadata** — $0.030 per row at BRONZE

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- **KOL agencies & brand teams** shortlisting Bilibili UP主 for sponsorship campaigns using search + profile + relation-stat workflows.
- **Trend analysts** monitoring Bilibili's gaming, anime, and tech communities — the leading indicator for Chinese youth culture before content crosses to Douyin and Weibo.
- **AI / ML teams** building Chinese-language datasets from AI-subtitle URLs and danmaku timestamps for translation, summarization, and video-aware reaction models.
- **Sentiment analysts** mining comments and bullet-chat reactions for product launches, game drops, anime releases, and brand campaigns.
- **Brand-safety teams** running due diligence on creator catalogs before signing partnerships.
- **Cross-border consultants** producing China-entry briefings with full category snapshots (top videos, top creators, fan sentiment).