🎬 TikTok, Douyin & Bilibili Scraper

Scrape videos, profiles, comments, likes, live streams, and trending feeds across TikTok, Douyin, and Bilibili — all in one actor. Unified JSON schema, no API key required, direct MP4 downloads, from $0.002 per item.

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🎯 Who needs this?

• 📣 Social media managers tracking competitors and viral trends across Western + Chinese platforms
• 🎨 Content creators sourcing trending music, hashtags, and reference videos
• 📊 Market researchers monitoring brand mentions, sentiment, and virality
• 🛒 E-commerce teams identifying influencers and top-performing product creators
• 🤖 AI / ML teams collecting training data for video, caption, or comment analysis
• 🏢 Agencies running influencer discovery and campaign measurement

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✨ Features

• 🌐 3 platforms in one actor — TikTok, Douyin, Bilibili
• 🎬 7 scraping modes — video detail, user posts, user profile, comments, likes, live info, trending
• 🪄 Auto platform detection — paste any URL, the actor routes it to the right platform
• 📋 Bulk mode — scrape many URLs in a single run, processed concurrently
• ⬇️ No-watermark MP4 URLs — direct video download links (TikTok / Douyin)
• 💬 Full comment threads — with replies and engagement counts
• 🔴 Live room data — viewer count, title, status, host
• 🔥 Trending feeds — Douyin hot search, Bilibili popular
• 🔁 Automatic retries — transient failures retried with backoff; persistent failures logged as error rows
• 📊 Unified output schema — the same field names across all three platforms (raw response also included)
• 🛡️ Proxy-ready — Apify residential proxy integration built-in
• 🔗 TikTok short-link auto-resolve — vm.tiktok.com / vt.tiktok.com URLs are followed to their canonical video URL before scraping
• 🛟 Crash-proof — every failure mode (bad input, anti-bot, unsupported combo, network timeout) becomes a structured error row, never a failed run

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📥 Input

🔴 Required

Field	Type	Description
mode 🎬	string	What to scrape. See the mode table below.

One of url or urls is also required (except for trending mode).

📋 Main fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
platform 🌐	select	auto	auto, tiktok, douyin, or bilibili
url 🔗	string	—	Single URL — video, user profile, or live room
urls 📋	array	—	Bulk list of URLs. Combined with url if both given.
maxItems 📊	integer	100	Max items per input URL (paginated modes). 1–5000.

🎛️ Options

Field	Type	Default	Description
downloadVideos ⬇️	boolean	true	Include no-watermark MP4 URLs in output. Auto-disabled for Douyin (Douyin's CDN currently rate-limits these to 403); pass forceDownload: true to override. TikTok and Bilibili are unaffected.
forceDownload 🔓	boolean	false	Override the Douyin auto-disable above. Use only if you've confirmed your IP/cookie can pull Douyin no-watermark URLs.
includeComments 💬	boolean	false	Also fetch a batch of comments alongside video_detail
cookie 🍪	string (secret)	—	Browser cookie for private / gated content
proxyConfiguration 🛡️	object	RESIDENTIAL	Apify proxy settings — residential strongly recommended

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🎬 Modes × Platforms

Mode	TikTok	Douyin	Bilibili	Input expected
video_detail	✅	✅	✅	Video URL
user_posts	✅	✅	✅	User profile URL
user_profile	✅	✅	✅	User profile URL
video_comments	✅	✅	✅	Video URL
user_likes	✅	✅	❌	User profile URL
live_info	❌	✅	✅	Live room URL
trending	❌	✅	✅	platform only (no URL)

Unsupported combinations return a clear error record.

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📤 Output

Unified schema across all platforms:

Field	Description
platform	tiktok, douyin, or bilibili
item_type	video, user, comment, live, trending, or error
item_id	Native platform ID
url	Canonical URL back to the source
title, description	Caption / title text
author_id, author_name, author_username	Creator info
duration_sec, cover_url, video_url_nowm	Video asset fields
music_title, music_author	Background audio
hashtags	Array extracted from caption
created_at	ISO publish timestamp
play_count, like_count, comment_count, share_count, collect_count	Engagement stats
follower_count, following_count, video_count, bio, avatar_url, verified	Profile fields
comment_id, reply_to_id, comment_text	Comment fields
live_status, live_title, viewer_count	Live fields
raw	Full source API response for advanced users
scraped_at	ISO timestamp when scraped

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🧪 Examples

Single TikTok video with download URL

{
  "mode": "video_detail",
  "url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@charlidamelio/video/7337889649290054955",
  "downloadVideos": true
}

Bulk — 3 creators' latest 50 posts each (Douyin)

{
  "mode": "user_posts",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAA...",
    "https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAB...",
    "https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjABAAAC..."
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Top 200 comments on a Bilibili video

{
  "mode": "video_comments",
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1GJ411x7h7",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Douyin trending feed

{
  "mode": "trending",
  "platform": "douyin",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Bilibili live room

{
  "mode": "live_info",
  "url": "https://live.bilibili.com/21452505"
}

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💵 Pricing

Simple pay-per-event — you only pay for items successfully delivered:

Event	Price	Covers
🎬 Video scraped	$0.008	Any video row (video_detail, user_posts, user_likes, live_info, trending)
💬 Comment scraped	$0.002	Each comment
👤 Profile scraped	$0.005	Each user profile

Failed URLs return an error row and are not billed.

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⚠️ Platform Quirks

The target platforms (TikTok, Douyin, Bilibili) frequently rotate their anti-bot defenses. The actor handles every failure gracefully — you get a clean error row instead of a failed run — but data may be partial in these specific cases:

Area	Behavior	What to do
🎶 Douyin no-watermark MP4 URLs	Douyin CDN currently rate-limits these to 403	Auto-disabled by default. Metadata still returned. Pass forceDownload: true to attempt anyway.
📅 Douyin user_posts freshness	Douyin's public feed lags by ~6 days for some accounts	Use Bilibili or TikTok for time-sensitive monitoring.
📺 Bilibili download URLs	Bilibili rotates download tokens; some downloads may fail	Metadata + URL still returned; download via your own client.
🎵 Newer Douyin URL formats	Some short-form Douyin URL shapes are not yet parsed	Use the canonical douyin.com/video/<id> form.
👤 TikTok user_profile	Some regions return a soft block for profile lookups	Try a residential proxy in a different country group.

We track these continuously and ship fixes as soon as they're available.

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❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need a TikTok / Douyin / Bilibili account? No. The actor scrapes public data using the built-in Apify proxy. No login required.

Q: Do no-watermark MP4 URLs expire? Yes, TikTok and Douyin CDN URLs expire in a few hours. Download and store the file promptly.

Q: Can I scrape private accounts? No — only public content is supported. For some gated endpoints (private collections, saved videos, TikTok comments), you may pass your browser cookie via the cookie field.

Q: TikTok comments mode returns 0 results? TikTok's comment API requires a logged-in session. Paste a fresh TikTok browser cookie into the cookie input field. Videos, profiles, and posts work without a cookie; comments need one.

Q: Will one URL appear in my output multiple times? No — each URL produces a single row (or a single error row).

Q: What happens if a URL is deleted or region-blocked? You'll get an error row with item_type: "error" and a human-readable error_message. You are not charged for error rows.

Q: Can I run this with my own proxy instead of Apify proxy? Yes — set custom proxy URLs in proxyConfiguration.proxyUrls.

Q: Does the actor handle bulk scraping efficiently? Yes — URLs are processed concurrently. 100 URLs typically finish in 2–3 minutes.

Q: What's the maximum URLs per run? There's no hard limit, but we recommend ≤ 500 URLs per run for optimal reliability. Split larger jobs into multiple runs for parallelism.

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🆘 Troubleshooting

No results for a TikTok URL The video may be deleted, private, or region-blocked. Check the URL in a browser first. Error rows include a status message explaining why.

"Spending limit reached" You set ACTOR_MAX_TOTAL_CHARGE_USD and the run hit the cap mid-batch. Remaining URLs are skipped and marked as error rows. Increase the cap or split the batch.

Empty dataset on first run Make sure mode is set and that url/urls match the mode's expected input (e.g. video URL for video_detail, profile URL for user_posts).

Bilibili returns 404 The BV-id may be invalid or deleted. Short links like b23.tv/xxx are auto-resolved.

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🛡️ Legal

• Scrapes public data only.
• You are responsible for compliance with each platform's terms of service and your local laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).
• Personal data handling: store / transmit in line with applicable regulations.

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⭐ Support

If something's not working, open the run → view the log → attach the run URL when reaching out. The actor auto-populates error rows with context, so paste those too.

Happy scraping. 🚀