Bilibili Scraper

Scrape Bilibili (哔哩哔哩), China's largest video community: search videos by keyword, read any video, pull a creator's (UP主) profile and latest uploads, or grab the popular board (热门). Every video comes with views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, danmaku and comment counts, tags, length, publish date and creator. No login, no cookies, no API key.

The scraper talks to Bilibili's web API with signed requests (WBI), the same way bilibili.com does in the browser, through Apify residential proxies in China. No browser, so runs are fast and cheap.

What you can use it for

• China market research: see which products, brands and topics Chinese viewers watch and discuss, and how much.
• Influencer (KOL) discovery: find creators by keyword and compare followers, likes and upload activity.
• Competitor and brand monitoring: track videos about your brand or category every day.
• Trend tracking: take a daily snapshot of the popular board.
• AI datasets: collect titles, descriptions and tags of Chinese video content.

Input

Field	Description	Default
searchQueries	Keywords, one per line. Chinese keywords find more
maxResultsPerSearch	Videos per keyword, up to 1,000	40
searchOrder	totalrank relevance, click views, pubdate newest, dm danmaku, stow favorites	totalrank
searchDuration	"0" any, "1" under 10 min, "2" 10 to 30 min, "3" 30 to 60 min, "4" over 60 min	"0"
videoUrls	Video URLs or BV ids
creatorUrls	Creator pages https://space.bilibili.com/<uid> or UIDs
maxVideosPerCreator	Latest uploads per creator, 0 for the profile only	30
popular	Add the popular board	false
maxPopularVideos	Videos from the popular board	50
includeDetails	Complete statistics for every video (coins, shares, likes of uploads)	false

Use at least one of searchQueries, videoUrls, creatorUrls or popular.

{
    "searchQueries": ["原神", "iPhone 17"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 100,
    "searchOrder": "click",
    "creatorUrls": ["https://space.bilibili.com/401742377"],
    "popular": true,
    "includeDetails": true
}

Output

Every row has a type: video or creator. source tells where a video came from (search, video, creator, popular).

A video from a search:

{
    "type": "video",
    "bvid": "BV12Kpxz9Eyb",
    "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12Kpxz9Eyb",
    "aid": 115218906681877,
    "title": "「小白」iPhone17全面测评：你想看的都在这了！",
    "description": "关注微信公众号：小白测评 每晚发车不见不散",
    "coverUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/archive/49063e3093ee62c90813f7a852aff3b92cd31454.jpg",
    "durationSeconds": 1188,
    "publishedAt": "2025-09-17T12:00:00.000Z",
    "category": "数码",
    "tags": ["数码", "小白测评", "iPhone17", "苹果手机", "A19芯片"],
    "views": 2085669,
    "likes": 52865,
    "coins": null,
    "favorites": 11819,
    "shares": null,
    "danmaku": 12092,
    "comments": 5834,
    "authorName": "小白测评",
    "authorId": 8969156,
    "authorUrl": "https://space.bilibili.com/8969156",
    "source": "search",
    "searchQuery": "iPhone 17",
    "position": 1
}

With includeDetails, coins and shares are filled as well.

A creator:

{
    "type": "creator",
    "creatorId": 401742377,
    "name": "原神",
    "url": "https://space.bilibili.com/401742377",
    "bio": "原神官方账号",
    "followers": 20863470,
    "following": 60,
    "videoCount": 740,
    "articleCount": 0,
    "totalLikes": 285732645,
    "level": 6,
    "isVerified": true,
    "verifiedTitle": "原神官方账号",
    "avatarUrl": "https://i2.hdslb.com/bfs/face/e63bacc8b9e68f59f401cc41728a99262ba661a3.jpg",
    "gender": null
}

Export the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or pull them through the Apify API, n8n, Make or Zapier.

Pricing

You pay per row in the dataset (video or creator), see the pricing tab. Proxy traffic and includeDetails cost nothing extra. Keywords that find nothing cost nothing.

Limits

• Bilibili shows at most 50 pages of 20 videos per keyword, so 1,000 videos. Split broad topics into several keywords.
• Comments and danmaku text are not included: without a login Bilibili shows only the top three comments of a video.
• Bilibili blocks datacenter IPs. Keep the default residential proxy in China.

FAQ

Do I need a Bilibili account or cookie? No.

Why Chinese keywords? Bilibili's audience searches in Chinese. 原神 finds far more than Genshin Impact.

How fresh is the data? Every run reads live numbers from Bilibili.