Bilibili B站 Scraper - Videos, Comments, Danmaku & Subtitles

Bilibili Scraper is a Bilibili API that extracts public data from Bilibili (哔哩哔哩, B站) and returns clean, flat JSON. You get keyword search results, video details, public Bilibili comments with each commenter's public profile, danmaku (弹幕, on-screen comments), Bilibili subtitles (full transcripts with timed sentences), UP主 creator profiles with their recent videos, creator dynamics (posts), full reply threads, the popular feed, the trending search board, public favourite folders, live room status, the home recommended videos and the cinema and bangumi (anime) tabs. It is made for marketers, researchers, analysts and developers who need Bilibili data without Chinese-language skills, proxies, cookies or a login. You can call it over HTTP or with the Apify Python or JavaScript client and get the same JSON back.

What is Bilibili?

Bilibili (bilibili.com, 哔哩哔哩, often called B站) is a Chinese video-sharing platform with user-uploaded videos on topics such as gaming, anime, technology, education and lifestyle. Its best-known feature is danmaku (弹幕): viewer comments that scroll across the video at the moment they refer to. Video creators on Bilibili are called UP主.

What data can you get?

The Actor has fifteen modes. Each run uses one mode.

Mode	Give it	You get
search	a keyword	videos: title, author, views, likes, favorites, comments, danmaku count, duration, publish time, category, tags
video	BV IDs or video URLs	the same video fields for each video (except category), plus coins and shares
comments	BV IDs or video URLs	comment text, likes, reply count, time, plus each commenter's public profile: user ID, nickname, avatar, gender, level, verification, bio. includeReplies adds the first replies under each comment
danmaku	BV IDs or video URLs	danmaku (on-screen comments): text, position in the video in seconds, sent time, colour, display mode, sender hash. At most 1,200 per video
subtitles	BV IDs or video URLs	one item per video: full transcript as plain text plus timed sentences, language, and whether it is machine-made. Only videos that have subtitles
creator	UIDs or space.bilibili.com URLs	profile (nickname, user ID, avatar, gender, level, verification, bio, followers, total views and likes) plus the creator's recent videos
dynamics	UIDs or space.bilibili.com URLs	the creator's dynamics (posts), newest first: text, images, type, time, likes, comments, shares, linked video
replies	comment links, or BV... <comment ID>	every reply under a comment (not only the first few): the same fields as comment items, with parentCommentId set
popular	nothing	the current popular-videos feed (video fields)
hotSearch	nothing	the trending search board: rank, word, heat score, search link
favorites	UIDs or space.bilibili.com URLs	videos in the creator's public favourite folders: video fields plus folder and save time. Hidden folders count as not found
liveRoom	room IDs or live.bilibili.com URLs	one record per room: live or not, title, viewers, followers, category, start time
dynamicDetail	dynamic IDs or opus / t.bilibili.com links	one record per dynamic (image, text and video posts): the same fields as dynamics
homeFeed	nothing	the home recommended videos (video fields available in that feed)
cinemaFeed	nothing	the shows and films on the cinema tab: title, type, section, views, followers, link
bangumiFeed	nothing	the anime shows on the bangumi tab: the same fields as cinemaFeed

Every item has a type field: video, comment, danmaku, subtitle, creator, dynamic, trend, liveRoom or season (modes popular, favorites and homeFeed return video items; modes cinemaFeed and bangumiFeed return season items; mode replies returns comment items). Fields with no data are null; an empty tags list is returned as [].

Bilibili videos: search, details, popular, favourites (modes search, video, creator, popular, favorites)

Field	Description
bvid	Video ID (BV...)
title	Video title
views	View count
likes	Like count
coins	Coins given by viewers (mode video only)
favorites	Times added to favorites
shares	Share count (mode video only)
comments	Comment count
danmaku	Danmaku count
publishedAt	Publish time, ISO 8601 UTC
durationSeconds	Video length in seconds
authorName, authorId, authorUrl, authorAvatar	Uploader's name, user ID, profile link and avatar URL (avatar where the source provides it)
category, tags	Category (filled for search results) and tags (filled for search results and mode video)
description	Video description, empty when the uploader wrote none
url, coverUrl, aid	Video link, cover image URL and legacy numeric video ID
collectorUid, folderId, folderTitle, favoritedAt	Mode favorites only: whose folder, the folder, and when the video was saved (ISO 8601 UTC)

Bilibili comments and replies (modes comments, replies)

Field	Description
text	Comment text
likes	Likes on the comment
replyCount	Number of replies
publishedAt	Comment time, ISO 8601 UTC
authorName, authorId, authorAvatar	Commenter's nickname, user ID and avatar URL
authorIpLocation	IP location field (IP属地). It is currently always null
authorGender	Commenter's public gender label
authorLevel	Commenter's account level (0-6)
authorBio	Commenter's public signature, as published
authorVerifiedType	Verification type: -1 none, 0 personal, 1 organisation
authorVerifiedTitle	Verification text
commentId, parentCommentId	Comment ID; for replies, the ID of the top-level comment (null on top-level comments)
bvid, videoUrl	The video the comment belongs to

Bilibili danmaku (on-screen comments) (mode danmaku)

Field	Description
text	Danmaku text
timeSeconds	Position in the video where it appears, in seconds
sentAt	When it was sent, ISO 8601 UTC
color	Hex colour, for example #FFFFFF
displayMode	1-3 scrolling, 4 bottom, 5 top, 6 reverse, 7 positioned, 8 code, 9 BAS
fontSize	Font size
pool	0 normal, 1 subtitle, 2 special
senderHash	The platform's public hash of the sender's user ID
danmakuId	Danmaku ID
videoBvid, videoUrl	The video it belongs to

Bilibili subtitles and transcripts (mode subtitles)

Field	Description
text	The whole transcript, one sentence per line
segments	Timed sentences: start and end in seconds, text
language, languageName	Language code (for example zh, en) and language name as listed on the video
isAiGenerated	true when machine-made, false when the creator uploaded it
availableLanguages	All subtitle tracks the video offers (ai- prefix = machine-made)
segmentCount	Number of timed sentences
bvid, url, title, authorName, durationSeconds	The video the subtitles belong to

Bilibili creator (UP主) profiles (mode creator)

Field	Description
nickname, uid, url	Creator name, user ID and profile link
followers, following	Follower and following counts
videoCount	Number of videos
totalViews, totalLikes	Total views and likes
bio, avatarUrl	Bio and avatar URL
gender, level, birthday	Public gender label, account level (0-6), birthday (MM-DD) when shown
verifiedType, verifiedTitle	Verification type (-1 none, 0 personal, 1 organisation) and verification text

The creator's recent videos are returned as separate video items in the same dataset.

Bilibili creator dynamics (posts) (mode dynamics)

Field	Description
dynamicId, url	Dynamic ID and link
dynamicType	av (video post), draw (images), word (text), forward, article, opus and others the platform adds
text	Post text (for a video post, the text written with it or the video title)
imageUrls	Image URLs attached to the post
bvid	Linked video, for video posts
publishedAt	Time, ISO 8601 UTC
likes, comments, shares	Like, comment and forward counts
isForward	true when it forwards another post
authorName, authorId, authorAvatar	The creator

Bilibili trending search board (mode hotSearch)

Field	Description
rank	Position on the board, 1 = hottest
keyword, heatScore	The trending word and its heat score
searchUrl	Bilibili search page for the word

Bilibili live room status (mode liveRoom)

Field	Description
roomId, shortId, url	Room ID (long form), short ID if any, and link
title, description	Room title and description text
status, isLive	offline, live or replay; isLive is true only while broadcasting
liveStartedAt	Start of the current broadcast, ISO 8601 UTC (null when not live)
viewers, followers	Popularity number shown by the platform, and follower count
areaName, parentAreaName, tags	Category and tags
streamerId, coverUrl, keyframeUrl	Streamer's user ID, cover image, latest preview frame

Bilibili home recommended videos (mode homeFeed)

Video items with the same fields as search results (bvid, aid, title, authorName, authorId, coverUrl, durationSeconds, views, danmaku, category, url). Likes, coins and publish time are not part of this feed; use video mode for full stats.

Bilibili cinema and bangumi (anime) tabs (modes cinemaFeed, bangumiFeed)

Field	Description
seasonId, url	Show ID and play-page link
title, description, coverUrl	Title, tagline and cover image
seasonType	anime, movie, documentary, chinese animation, tv drama or variety show (empty when not given)
badge	Access badge on the card, for example paid membership
section	Section of the tab the show first appears in
views, follows, danmaku	Play count, followers and danmaku count where the platform shows them (banner cards carry none)

How to use Bilibili Scraper

1. Open Bilibili Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Choose a Mode, for example search, video details, comments, danmaku, subtitles, creator, dynamics, replies, popular, hotSearch, favorites, liveRoom, dynamicDetail, homeFeed, cinemaFeed or bangumiFeed.
3. Fill in the input for that mode: a keyword, video URLs or BV IDs, creator UIDs or profile URLs, comment links or live room IDs. Modes popular, hotSearch, homeFeed, cinemaFeed and bangumiFeed need no input.
4. Set Max results (the total number of items for the whole run).
5. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
6. Open the dataset and export it as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the API.

Input

Field	Type	Required	What it does	Default
mode	string	Required	search, video, comments, danmaku, subtitles, creator, dynamics, replies, popular, hotSearch, favorites, liveRoom, dynamicDetail, homeFeed, cinemaFeed or bangumiFeed	search
keyword	string	Optional (mode search)	Search keyword. Chinese keywords return the best results	原神
searchOrder	string	Optional (mode search)	Ranking: totalrank (best match), click (most views), pubdate (newest), dm (most danmaku), stow (most favorites)	totalrank
videos	array of strings	Optional (modes video, comments, danmaku, subtitles)	Video URLs or BV IDs, for example https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT or BV1M1421t7hT. Share short links (https://b23.tv/...) work too; a short link that cannot be resolved counts as not found and is not charged. In modes danmaku and subtitles a link ending in ?p=2 (or p=3, ...) selects that part of a multi-part video; without it you get the first part	none
subtitleLanguage	string	Optional (mode subtitles)	Language code such as zh, en or en-US. Leave empty to get the fullest track available	empty
creators	array of strings	Optional (modes creator, dynamics, favorites)	Creator UIDs or profile URLs, for example 19286458 or https://space.bilibili.com/19286458. Share short links (https://b23.tv/...) work too; a short link that cannot be resolved counts as not found and is not charged	none
includeReplies	boolean	Optional (mode comments)	Also return the replies shown under each comment. Each reply is billed like a comment	false
commentLinks	array of strings	Optional (mode replies)	Comment links copied from Bilibili (https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT/#reply237107365072) or BV1M1421t7hT 237107365072. Use a top-level comment	none
liveRooms	array of strings	Optional (mode liveRoom)	Live room IDs or URLs, for example 6 or https://live.bilibili.com/6	none
dynamicLinks	array of strings	Optional (mode dynamicDetail)	Dynamic IDs or links, for example https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1261604569755942949 or https://t.bilibili.com/1261604569755942949. A dynamic that does not exist counts as not found	none
maxResults	integer	Optional	Maximum number of items in total for this run (1 to 5,000)	20

maxResults is the total number of items for the whole run. The run stops as soon as it is reached, or when the spending limit you set in the run options is used up. Pagination is handled for you.

Search the most viewed videos for a keyword:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keyword": "原神",
  "searchOrder": "click",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Get full stats (including coins and shares) for specific videos:

{
  "mode": "video",
  "videos": ["BV1M1421t7hT"]
}

Get comments with replies:

{
  "mode": "comments",
  "videos": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT"],
  "includeReplies": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Get danmaku:

{
  "mode": "danmaku",
  "videos": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT"],
  "maxResults": 1200
}

Get English subtitles:

{
  "mode": "subtitles",
  "videos": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT"],
  "subtitleLanguage": "en"
}

Get a creator's latest dynamics, or the full reply thread of a comment:

{"mode": "dynamics", "creators": ["20165629"], "maxResults": 24}

{"mode": "replies", "commentLinks": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT/#reply237107365072"]}

Get the popular feed, the trending board, a creator's public favourites, or live room status:

{"mode": "popular", "maxResults": 40}

{"mode": "hotSearch", "maxResults": 20}

{"mode": "favorites", "creators": ["19286458"]}

{"mode": "liveRoom", "liveRooms": ["6", "https://live.bilibili.com/21452505"]}

{"mode": "dynamicDetail", "dynamicLinks": ["https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1261604569755942949"]}

Get a creator profile and recent videos:

{
  "mode": "creator",
  "creators": ["https://space.bilibili.com/19286458"],
  "maxResults": 30
}

Output example

All values below are illustrative samples.

Video item:

{
  "type": "video",
  "bvid": "BV1M1421t7hT",
  "aid": 1054321098,
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT",
  "title": "Example video title",
  "description": "Example description",
  "authorName": "ExampleUploader",
  "authorId": 19286458,
  "authorUrl": "https://space.bilibili.com/19286458",
  "authorAvatar": "https://i1.hdslb.com/bfs/face/example.jpg",
  "coverUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/example.jpg",
  "durationSeconds": 754,
  "publishedAt": "2025-01-15T09:30:00Z",
  "views": 1203400,
  "likes": 85200,
  "coins": 20100,
  "favorites": 30500,
  "shares": 4100,
  "comments": 3200,
  "danmaku": 9800,
  "category": "Gaming",
  "tags": ["game", "review"]
}

Comment item:

{
  "type": "comment",
  "bvid": "BV1M1421t7hT",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT",
  "commentId": "245678901234",
  "parentCommentId": null,
  "text": "Example comment text",
  "likes": 312,
  "replyCount": 14,
  "publishedAt": "2025-01-16T02:10:00Z",
  "authorName": "ExampleViewer",
  "authorId": 123456789,
  "authorAvatar": "https://i1.hdslb.com/bfs/face/example2.jpg",
  "authorIpLocation": null,
  "authorGender": "保密",
  "authorLevel": 5,
  "authorBio": "Example signature",
  "authorVerifiedType": -1,
  "authorVerifiedTitle": null
}

Danmaku item:

{
  "type": "danmaku",
  "danmakuId": "1598765432109876543",
  "videoBvid": "BV1M1421t7hT",
  "videoUrl": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT",
  "text": "Example danmaku",
  "timeSeconds": 83.5,
  "sentAt": "2025-01-15T12:04:00Z",
  "displayMode": 1,
  "fontSize": 25,
  "color": "#FFFFFF",
  "pool": 0,
  "senderHash": "a1b2c3d4"
}

Subtitle item:

{
  "type": "subtitle",
  "bvid": "BV1M1421t7hT",
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT",
  "title": "Example video title",
  "authorName": "ExampleUploader",
  "durationSeconds": 754,
  "language": "en",
  "languageName": "English (auto-generated)",
  "isAiGenerated": true,
  "availableLanguages": ["ai-zh", "ai-en"],
  "segmentCount": 2,
  "text": "Hello everyone.\nToday we look at an example.",
  "segments": [
    {"start": 0.5, "end": 2.1, "text": "Hello everyone."},
    {"start": 2.3, "end": 5.0, "text": "Today we look at an example."}
  ]
}

Creator item:

{
  "type": "creator",
  "uid": 19286458,
  "url": "https://space.bilibili.com/19286458",
  "nickname": "ExampleUploader",
  "bio": "Example creator bio",
  "avatarUrl": "https://i1.hdslb.com/bfs/face/example.jpg",
  "gender": "保密",
  "level": 6,
  "verifiedType": 0,
  "verifiedTitle": "Example verification text",
  "birthday": null,
  "followers": 520000,
  "following": 180,
  "videoCount": 412,
  "totalViews": 98000000,
  "totalLikes": 6400000
}

Dynamic item (mode dynamics):

{
  "type": "dynamic",
  "dynamicId": "1261594811568226328",
  "dynamicType": "av",
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1261594811568226328",
  "text": "Example post text",
  "imageUrls": [],
  "bvid": "BV1M1421t7hT",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-21T10:12:12Z",
  "authorName": "ExampleUploader",
  "authorId": 19286458,
  "authorAvatar": "https://i1.hdslb.com/bfs/face/example.jpg",
  "likes": 2151,
  "comments": 73,
  "shares": 10,
  "isForward": false
}

Trend item (mode hotSearch):

{"type": "trend", "rank": 1, "keyword": "Example word", "heatScore": 56139135, "searchUrl": "https://search.bilibili.com/all?keyword=Example%20word"}

Live room item (mode liveRoom):

{
  "type": "liveRoom",
  "roomId": 7734200,
  "shortId": 6,
  "url": "https://live.bilibili.com/7734200",
  "title": "Example stream title",
  "description": null,
  "streamerId": 50329118,
  "status": "live",
  "isLive": true,
  "liveStartedAt": "2026-10-15T07:50:15Z",
  "viewers": 193302,
  "followers": 16896526,
  "areaName": "Example area",
  "parentAreaName": "Example group",
  "tags": ["tag1", "tag2"],
  "coverUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/live/example.jpg",
  "keyframeUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/live-key-frame/example.jpg"
}

How much does it cost?

The Actor uses pay-per-event pricing: a small start fee per run plus a fee per item returned. Subtitles have their own, higher fee per video. Prices are in USD and depend on your Apify plan tier.

Event	What it covers	Bronze	Silver	Gold, Platinum, Diamond
Run start	charged once per run, when the first request succeeds	$0.00005	$0.00005	$0.00005
Result	one video, comment, reply, danmaku, creator video, dynamic, trending word, live room, show (season)	$0.00736	$0.00664	$0.006
Profile	one creator profile	$0.0092	$0.0083	$0.0075
Subtitle	one video's subtitles (full transcript and timed sentences)	$0.01	$0.009022	$0.008152

Worked examples:

• 100 search results on Bronze cost about $0.74 ($0.00005 start + 100 × $0.00736). On Gold and higher they cost about $0.61 ($0.00005 + 100 × $0.006).
• A full reply thread of 200 replies on Gold and higher costs about $1.20 ($0.00005 start + 200 × $0.006); one creator's last 24 dynamics about $0.14; the 50-word trending board about $0.30.
• Subtitles for 10 videos that have them cost about $0.10 on Bronze ($0.00005 start + 10 × $0.01).

On the free Apify plan, every run returns a sample dataset: a real result of this Actor's prefilled input, captured on the date shown in the run status, so you can see exactly what the output looks like. Your own input is not used and nothing is charged. To run your own searches, use any paid Apify plan.

The run-start fee is charged once, when the first request succeeds, even if that request returns nothing. It is not charged when the run fails from the start or rejects the IDs (for example, when every ID is invalid or not found, or the input is wrong), or when the spending limit cannot cover it. Items are charged only when they are actually returned. Replies (with includeReplies, or in mode replies) are billed like comments. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops when it is reached.

Use cases

• Influencer (KOL) research: find UP主 creators in your niche with search, then compare followers, totalViews and totalLikes in creator mode.
• Brand and product monitoring: track how often your brand appears in video titles and read what viewers say in comments and danmaku.
• China market and trend research: rank videos for any topic by views, recency, danmaku or favorites using searchOrder.
• Audience analysis: study commenters' authorLevel, authorGender and verification to understand who reacts to a topic.
• Moment-level reactions: use danmaku timeSeconds to see which parts of a video get the most on-screen comments.
• AI and NLP datasets: collect Chinese video metadata, comment text and subtitle transcripts (text, segments) for sentiment analysis, fine-tuning or retrieval.

Why use this Bilibili scraper

• No account, no cookies, no proxies. You give keywords, links or IDs; the Actor does the rest.
• You pay for data you get. Per-result fees are charged only for records delivered to your dataset. A failed or empty run tells you why in its status message and whether anything was charged.
• It runs. In the 30 days to 2 November 2026, 38 of 38 public runs succeeded (100%, Apify run statistics).
• Try before paying. On a free Apify plan every run returns a stored sample, so you can check the exact output format first.
• Flat JSON records ready for spreadsheets, databases and AI pipelines; export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Integrations and API

You can use this Actor as a Bilibili API alternative. Start runs through the Apify API, schedule them in Apify Console, and connect results to webhooks and integrations such as Zapier, Make and Google Sheets. It also works with AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

Python example with apify-client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("clover_folktale/bilibili-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "comments",
    "videos": ["https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M1421t7hT"],
    "maxResults": 200
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

A longer Python example is available on GitHub: bilibili_comments.py.

Use it from AI agents (MCP, n8n, Make)

This Actor works as a tool for AI agents through the Apify MCP server. Add it to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client with https://mcp.apify.com?tools=clover_folktale/bilibili-scraper, and the agent can search Bilibili and read the results itself. It also has ready-made integrations for n8n, Make and Zapier on the Apify platform.

Tips and limits

Danmaku mode

The source returns one fixed batch per video, at most 1,200 danmaku, sorted by their position in the video. For long videos this batch is from the start of the video only (in our test of a 22-minute video, the batch ended at about 5.5 minutes). The source offers no way to page further or pick a time range, and we cannot promise which danmaku fall in the batch. For multi-part videos only the first part is covered. Sender IDs are never returned; only the platform's public senderHash. A video with no danmaku counts as "not found".

Subtitles mode

Not every video has subtitles. Bilibili shows subtitles only where the creator uploaded them or its automatic speech recognition produced them. In our test of 15 popular videos from one search (English-speech topic, a small and not representative sample), 4 had a usable subtitle (about 27%), all four machine-made; creator-uploaded tracks we found were one-line placeholders. Machine subtitles are speech recognition output and contain mistakes, and many carry a machine-translated English track (listed as ai-en in availableLanguages).

Set subtitleLanguage to get a specific language; leave it empty to get the fullest track. The language field holds the plain code (for example en); the ai- prefix appears only in availableLanguages. A video that has no subtitle, or not in the language you asked for, counts as "not found" and is not charged. A subtitle lookup sometimes returns an empty list for a video that does have one (in our test the same video answered empty twice and with a subtitle once in three tries), so the Actor automatically asks again, up to 3 times in all, before it counts the video as "not found". A false miss is still possible; in that case run it again. Only the first part of a multi-part video is covered. Fetching the subtitle text takes one extra download per track; when no language is asked for, the Actor looks at up to four tracks and keeps the one with the most sentences.

Comments and replies

With "includeReplies": true, the replies the platform shows under each comment are returned right after their comment, with parentCommentId set. This is off by default. Replies are billed like comments and count toward maxResults. Long reply threads may be partial.

New modes (dynamics, replies, popular, hotSearch, favorites, liveRoom, dynamicDetail, homeFeed, cinemaFeed, bangumiFeed)

• dynamics: newest first, 12 per page. A creator with no posts counts as "not found". Counts such as likes can be empty for some post types.
• replies: takes a top-level comment (its link ends in #reply<ID>). Returns the whole thread, 20 per page. A comment ID that does not belong to the video counts as "not found".
• popular: the platform's current popular feed; it changes through the day and ends when the platform says there is no more.
• hotSearch: one request returns the whole board (about 30 words at most); maxResults above that returns the full board.
• favorites: only folders the creator made public; removed videos are skipped. Creators who hide their favourites count as "not found".
• liveRoom: a snapshot of the room at run time.
• dynamicDetail: one record per dynamic ID or link. Each dynamic is billed its own run start; a dynamic that does not exist counts as not found and is not charged.
• homeFeed: the platform's logged-out recommendations. Every request returns a fresh set of about 5 videos, so a large maxResults repeats requests until a request brings nothing new, and the number you get can fall short of it.
• cinemaFeed, bangumiFeed: one request returns every show on the tab (about 80 and 20), each listed once; the tabs change over time.

Fields that are often empty

• Search results: coins and shares are not included. Use video mode for full stats.
• Video-detail items (mode video): category is empty; tags are filled.
• Creator video lists: no coins, shares, likes, favorites, category or tags. Use video mode for full stats.
• Creator profile: totalViews, totalLikes and birthday come back empty for some accounts; that is the platform's data.
• Comments: authorIpLocation is currently not returned by the source, so it is always null. authorVerifiedTitle is filled only for verified commenters.
• description is empty when the uploader wrote none.
• Empty tags are returned as [], not null.

Language

Titles, descriptions, comments and danmaku are returned in the original language (mostly Chinese). Chinese keywords give the best search results.

Problems

If something looks wrong or a field is empty, open an issue on the Actor page with the run link. The Actor is monitored daily.

FAQ

Do I need a Bilibili account or cookies? No. No login, cookies or proxies are needed.

Is it legal to scrape Bilibili? The Actor only returns publicly visible information, including the public profile of users who appear in the results (user ID, avatar, gender, level, verification and bio, as published on the platform). Private messages, logins and anything not publicly visible are never collected. Bios are returned as published, including any business contact info the creator put there. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws and Bilibili's terms.

How fresh is the data? You get what the source returns at the time of your run. To track changes over time, schedule regular runs.

Why are some fields empty? Some data is not available in every mode, or the platform does not provide it for every account or comment. See "Fields that are often empty" above.

How many results can I get? Up to 5,000 items per run with maxResults on a paid plan. Danmaku are limited to 1,200 per video.

Can I schedule runs or use the API? Yes. Like any Apify Actor it can be started via API, scheduled, and connected to webhooks and integrations.

Which export formats are available? JSON, CSV and Excel, or read the dataset directly via the API.

Are results in English? No. Text is returned in the original language, mostly Chinese. Field names are in English.

Support

Found a bug, a missing field or a mode you need? Open an issue on the Issues tab. We reply within 24 hours, and a mode that stops working is fixed within 24 hours. What changed and when is listed on the Changelog tab.

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