Bilibili Scraper: Video Search, Stats & Creator Profiles

Public API only. No login, no browser, no proxy required.

You are only charged for a video or profile that actually lands in your dataset. Blocked or empty lookups are never billed.

Overview

Bilibili is China's dominant long-form video platform, the closest equivalent to YouTube in that market, and it is where a huge share of Chinese product reviews, unboxings, gaming content, and creator-economy activity actually lives. This actor turns a keyword, a video link or a creator ID into structured rows: views, danmaku (live bullet comments), replies, favorites, coins, shares, likes, duration and creator stats.

It runs three independent lookups, and you can use any combination of them in a single run:

Keyword search. Give it a search term and get back a ranked page of videos with title, description, author, publish date and full engagement stats, exactly as Bilibili's own search ranks them.

Video detail. Give it a video URL or a bare BV ID and get back the complete stat block for that one video, including coin count and share count, which the search results do not carry.

Creator profile. Give it a numeric Bilibili user ID (the number in a space.bilibili.com/<uid> URL) and get back that creator's public profile: name, follower count, level, verification status and bio.

✅ Keyword search, direct video lookup, or creator profile, in one actor · ✅ Full engagement stats, not just view count · ✅ No login, no API key · ✅ MCP-ready for AI agents

Why this is cheap and reliable

Most Bilibili scrapers on the market run a full headless browser because Bilibili's web pages are heavily client-rendered. This actor does not scrape the web pages at all. It talks directly to Bilibili's own public JSON API, the same one the Bilibili apps and web client call internally, over a plain HTTP request. Verified in production: search, video-detail and creator-card lookups all return complete JSON to an ordinary request with a browser user agent and a Referer header, no proxy and no geo-restriction. That is also why pricing on this actor is well below scrapers built on a browser, and why runs finish in seconds rather than tens of seconds per video.

If Bilibili ever starts rejecting unsigned requests to these endpoints, the actor is built to notice: a Bilibili risk-control response code stops the run immediately rather than silently returning nothing, and nothing is ever charged for a lookup that did not deliver.

Input

{
  "keywords": ["cooking"],
  "maxResultsPerKeyword": 10,
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xx411c7mD"],
  "creatorIds": ["546195"]
}

Field	What it takes
keywords	Search terms, in Chinese or English. Each keyword returns a page of ranked video results.
maxResultsPerKeyword	Cap per keyword. About 20 results per page, so this also controls how many search pages are fetched.
videoUrls	Full video links or bare BV IDs. Each one returns the complete stat block for that video.
creatorIds	Numeric UP主 (creator) user IDs, the number in a space.bilibili.com/<uid> link. Each one returns that creator's public profile.

Leave any field empty or omit it entirely; the actor only runs the lookups you actually provide.

Output

Three record shapes land in the same dataset, distinguished by record_type.

Search result:

{
  "record_type": "video-search-result",
  "bvid": "BV1Xvut6sEjU",
  "title": "A home-cooked noodle recipe",
  "author_name": "food.creator",
  "author_uid": 392336778,
  "duration_seconds": 748,
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T20:07:14.000Z",
  "view_count": 873620,
  "danmaku_count": 1225,
  "reply_count": 532,
  "favorite_count": 11813,
  "like_count": 30002,
  "thumbnail_url": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/archive/....jpg",
  "video_url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Xvut6sEjU",
  "tags": "cooking, home recipes",
  "keyword": "cooking",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-14T09:12:03.000Z"
}

Video detail (via videoUrls) adds coin_count and share_count, which search results do not carry.

Creator profile (via creatorIds):

{
  "record_type": "creator-profile-result",
  "uid": 546195,
  "name": "example_creator",
  "gender": "male",
  "level": 6,
  "fans_count": 228344,
  "following_count": 7,
  "bio": "Cooking channel, new video every week",
  "vip_status": true,
  "avatar_url": "https://i1.hdslb.com/bfs/face/....jpg",
  "profile_url": "https://space.bilibili.com/546195",
  "scraped_at": "2026-08-14T09:12:07.000Z"
}

Field	Description
🆔 bvid / aid	Bilibili's current and legacy video IDs
📄 title / description	Video title and description
👤 author_name / author_uid	The creator who posted the video
⏱️ duration_seconds	Video length
📅 published_at	ISO publish timestamp
👁️ view_count	Total plays
💬 danmaku_count	Live bullet-comment count, a Bilibili-specific engagement signal
💭 reply_count	Comment count
⭐ favorite_count	Times saved to a watch-later or favorites list
🪙 coin_count	Bilibili coins gifted (video detail only)
🔁 share_count	Share count (video detail only)
👍 like_count	Like count
🏷️ tags	Video tags (search results only)
👥 fans_count / following_count	Creator follower and following counts
🎚️ level	Bilibili account level, 0 to 6

Common use cases

Brand and campaign monitoring. Track how a product or brand name is performing on Bilibili week over week: view growth, like rate, danmaku volume.

Creator research and outreach. Pull a creator's public stats before reaching out for a collaboration, or benchmark a shortlist of creators against each other.

Competitive content research. See what is actually ranking for a category keyword right now, not just what a competitor claims performs well.

Market research into Chinese consumer video. Bilibili skews younger and more product-review-heavy than most Chinese platforms, making it a strong signal source for launches aimed at Gen Z / Gen Alpha Chinese consumers.

AI agents. Feed structured Bilibili engagement data into an agent answering "what is trending in this category on Chinese video right now?"

Pricing

Event	Price	You pay when
Video search result	$0.004	A video from a keyword search lands in your dataset
Video detail result	$0.006	A direct video lookup lands in your dataset
Creator profile result	$0.005	A creator profile lands in your dataset

Searches or lookups that return nothing cost nothing.

Run it on a schedule

1. Run once with the keywords, videos or creators you want tracked, then click Save as a task.
2. In the Apify Console go to Schedules → Create new.
3. Pick a frequency and attach the saved task.
4. Wire the dataset to Sheets, Slack or a webhook from the Integrations tab.

FAQ

Do I need a Bilibili account? No. Every field this actor returns is public.

Why is this cheaper than other Bilibili scrapers? Because it never opens a browser. It calls Bilibili's own public JSON API directly, which is faster and far lower-cost than rendering pages with Chromium. And that saving is passed on in the price.

Can I search in English? Yes, though results are strongest for Chinese-language queries since that is the vast majority of Bilibili's content.

What if Bilibili starts blocking these endpoints? The actor is built to detect a genuine risk-control response from Bilibili and stop immediately rather than deliver junk. You will see a clear blocked_note in the summary row, and nothing is charged for the failed attempt.

Use from Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP agent

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=themineworks/bilibili-scraper

Or call it programmatically:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('themineworks/bilibili-scraper').call({
  keywords: ['cooking'],
  maxResultsPerKeyword: 10,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Questions, or need a field we don't return yet? Reach out through the Apify profile.