Bilibili Pro Scraper

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Full-featured Bilibili / 哔哩哔哩 scraper. Four modes, one Actor, clean structured JSON. No login, no cookies, no broken-token surprises.

Built for serious workloads — China-video research, UP creator discovery, AI training pipelines harvesting Chinese UGC, brand-watch dashboards, ML datasets of long-form Chinese video metadata.

What does this Actor do?

Pick a mode, give it inputs, get a dataset:

• Keyword search — search Bilibili by keyword. Six sort options (comprehensive ranking, most played, newest, most danmaku, most favorited, most commented).
• Video detail by BV / AID — paste a BV1xxxxxxxxx code, an av… numeric ID, or a full bilibili.com/video/... URL; get title, description, UP info, plays, danmaku, likes, favorites, replies, cover, publish time, and (optional) top comments.
• User profile + uploads — fetch a UP's profile (avatar, bio, level, top banner) and their recent uploaded videos with pagination.
• Popular / trending feed — the public "Popular" feed (com_popular). Surfaces what's blowing up across the entire platform right now.

Each video returns a flat, schema-validated JSON row that's downloadable as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML — and queryable via the Apify REST API for pipeline integration.

Why use Bilibili Pro Scraper?

• No cookies, no breakage. Other Bilibili actors in the store ask the user for a logged-in SESSDATA cookie that expires within days. Customers end up with a stream of 412/-352 errors and 1.5★ reviews. We use a maintained backend surface that stays stable.
• Four modes in one Actor. Search, detail, user, popular — pick a mode per run; no juggling separate Actors.
• Full-field output. Title, description, UP name + uid, plays, danmaku, likes, favorites, replies, duration, publish time, cover URL, tags — all in one row.
• AI training-ready. Chinese-language UGC video metadata, clean JSON, deduplicable by bvid. Drop straight into a vector DB, an LLM fine-tune set, or a trend classifier.
• Marketing dashboards. Schedule keyword runs hourly and build a real-time pulse of any brand, product, or category on China's largest Gen-Z video platform.

How to use

1. Open the Actor and click Try for free.
2. In the Input tab, pick a Scrape mode (search is the default).
3. Fill the inputs for your mode:
   • search: keywords, optional sort (searchOrder)
   • videos: BV codes / AV IDs / Bilibili URLs in videoIds
   • user: numeric UIDs in userIds (find in space.bilibili.com/<uid>)
   • popular: nothing required
4. Set Max items per input (default 50).
5. Click Save & Start. Results stream into the dataset live.
6. Download or stream the dataset; schedule the run under the Schedules tab.

Input

JSON example — keyword search:

{
"mode":"search",
"keywords":["AI编程","Claude"],
"searchOrder":"click",
"maxItemsPerInput":100
}

Output

{
"bvid":"BV1xx411c7mD",
"aid":"170001",
"title":"Claude Code 完全入门指南",
"description":"从安装到 Hooks 全流程演示。",
"author":"AI研究室",
"authorUid":"12345678",
"authorPic":"https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/face/abc.jpg",
"cover":"https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/archive/cover.jpg",
"videoUrl":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xx411c7mD",
"duration":"12:34",
"plays":482915,
"danmaku":2841,
"likes":39201,
"favorites":12480,
"comments":1832,
"publishedAt":"2026-04-10T08:15:00.000Z",
"typeName":"科技",
"tags":["AI","编程","Claude"],
"keyword":"AI编程",
"searchOrder":"click",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-22T13:45:00.000Z"
}

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Pricing

$4.99 per 1,000 results. Each video returned counts as one result. videos mode with fetchComments=true returns richer rows but is billed at the same rate.

Free vs. paid Apify plans

Apify free-plan users get 2 sample runs capped at 10 results each so you can verify the data shape and quality before committing. Further runs from free accounts are blocked with an upgrade prompt — this Actor relies on a paid backend, so we can't subsidise unlimited free use. Any Apify paid plan ($49/month and up — see Apify pricing) unlocks unlimited runs at the rate above.

Cost estimates

Apify also charges a small compute fee (typically $0.01-0.05 per minute of run time).

Tips

• Schedule, don't poll. Bilibili rotates the popular feed every few hours; scheduling daily / 6-hourly delivers the right cadence vs cost.
• Deduplicate by bvid. Sequential runs overlap; merge and dedupe on bvid.
• Pair user + videos modes. Use mode: "user" to find prolific UPs, then drill into each top video with mode: "videos" + fetchComments.
• Pair searchOrder: "pubdate" with hourly scheduling for real-time keyword monitoring.
• Don't enable fetchComments unless you need them. Each comment-bearing video takes an extra request.

FAQ

Q: Why is this Actor different from the other Bilibili scrapers on the Store? A: Most existing actors depend on a customer-provided SESSDATA cookie that expires in days. We don't ask for one. We've engineered around stable backend surfaces so the Actor stays usable across cookie expiries.

Q: Will this break when Bilibili changes their API? A: Possibly. Our team maintains the backend; we patch usually within 24-72 hours of a backend change. Bug reports via the Issues tab.

Q: Is scraping Bilibili legal? A: We pull only publicly-accessible content — what any visitor can see without an account. Your usage is your responsibility; comply with your jurisdiction's law and Bilibili's Terms of Service.

Q: Can I get my data via API? A: Yes. Every Apify run exposes a stable REST API for inputs, datasets, and run status. Plug into n8n, Make, Zapier, or your own pipeline.

Q: How do I find a user's UID? A: Open the UP's profile on space.bilibili.com; the URL ends with /<uid> — that number is the UID.

Q: How fast are runs? A: Search: ~3 seconds per page (~42 videos). User: ~2 seconds per page. Video detail: ~1 second per video. Popular: ~2 seconds per page.

Q: I need a richer integration or higher-volume contract. A: Reach out via Apify chat. Custom endpoints and SLAs available on request.