Bilibili Scraper

Bilibili Scraper: videos, leaderboards, uploaders and comments, without an account

Pull Bilibili videos as rows with all seven counts on them: plays, likes, coins, favourites, shares, danmaku and comments, plus tags, sub-zone, length, publish time and the uploader. Six ways in: the popular list, a leaderboard, a sub-zone's top videos over a date window, an uploader's videos, straight links or IDs, and comments on any video.

There is no whole-site keyword search. The keyword filter works inside one sub-zone, and that is as close as this gets to searching Bilibili.

🎬 What Bilibili Scraper does

Each run does one job, chosen with What to get:

• Popular right now (热门) walks the popular list, which holds about 650 videos.
• Leaderboard (排行榜) takes the top 100 of the last few days, whole site or one of 19 zones.
• Top videos in a sub-zone takes one of 128 sub-zones over a publish window of up to 90 days,

ordered by plays, coins, favourites, danmaku or comments, with an optional keyword.

• Uploaders' videos takes up to 100 space links or UIDs, newest, most played or most favourited.
• Videos from links or IDs takes up to 1,000 links, BV ids, av numbers or b23.tv short links.
• Comments on videos takes up to 200 videos and returns comment rows, optionally with replies.

Dates are Beijing dates, since that is how Bilibili files them. The sub-zone window defaults to the last 7 days.

Tags cost one extra lookup per video. On a large run Bilibili leaves some of those unanswered, those rows arrive with tags empty, and the status message counts them. Turn Add tags off for a faster run.

📥 What you give it

{
  "source": "categoryTop",
  "subZone": "17",
  "topBy": "click",
  "publishedFrom": "2026-09-01",
  "publishedTo": "2026-09-13",
  "maxVideos": 200,
  "addTags": true
}

Anything that cannot work stops the run before a single request goes out, with one plain sentence: a sub-zone with no list, a date that is not a date, a window over 90 days, or more videos or uploaders than the caps allow.

📤 What you get back

A real video row from a recent run, with the description cut short:

{
  "source": "popular",
  "rank": 1,
  "bvid": "BV1DJYe6AEgP",
  "aid": "117263076164911",
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1DJYe6AEgP",
  "title": "【英雄联盟公益纪录片】逆风局的623326个英雄时刻",
  "description": "过去八年，《英雄联盟》公益累计帮助人数超62w+。...",
  "coverUrl": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/archive/88cc41d1e1cfa2477ff1ce19b2786b31404ea938.jpg",
  "duration": "9:16",
  "durationSeconds": 556,
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-13T10:00:00.000Z",
  "uploaderId": "178778949",
  "uploaderName": "英雄联盟",
  "uploaderUrl": "https://space.bilibili.com/178778949",
  "views": 1108952,
  "likes": 22162,
  "coins": 1133,
  "favourites": 1828,
  "shares": 149,
  "danmaku": 36,
  "comments": 187,
  "tags": ["LOL", "英雄联盟", "英雄联盟15周年", "英雄联盟15周年盛典"],
  "category": "网络游戏",
  "categoryId": 65,
  "listedUnder": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T05:42:12.129Z"
}

Comment rows carry videoBvid, videoAid, videoTitle, videoUrl, commentId, text, authorName, authorId, likes, replyCount, postedAt, isReply, replyTo and scrapedAt.

🧾 Reading the output

Run it with nothing chosen and you get the one sample row, a real video, so you can see the shape first.

There are no diagnostic rows. The status message leads with the result, then the stop reason, videos that are not available and why, uploaders with no public videos, anything that could not be read, comment lists that fell back to the short version, repeats and missing tags. RUN_REPORT in the key-value store holds all of it as numbers, plus one entry per page or list read.

Two dataset views are set up, overview for videos and comments for comment rows.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open Bilibili Scraper and click Try for free. 2. Pick What to get. 3. Fill in what that choice needs: a zone, a sub-zone and dates, uploader links, or video links. 4. Set Maximum videos, or Maximum comments per video for comments, then click Start. 5. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it from the Apify API.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.95 per 1,000 rows, whether they are videos or comments. Flat on every Apify plan, no volume tiers.

You pay per row delivered. A video that is gone or hidden, an uploader that does not exist, a page that could not be read, a repeat, a row outside your dates or zone, and the sample row are all free. Tags ride along with the video row and add nothing.

💡 What people use it for

• Watching what is on the popular list or a leaderboard each day, on a schedule, keyed on bvid.
• Measuring a sub-zone over a date window to see which topics actually get plays.
• Following a set of uploaders and picking up every new video with its counts.
• Reading the comments under a video to see how an audience reacted, replies included.
• Comparing coins and favourites against plays, since on Bilibili those say more than a like does.

🚧 What it does not do

• No whole-site keyword search. The keyword only narrows one sub-zone.
• No danmaku text. You get the danmaku count, not the scrolling comments themselves.
• No account-only data. Nothing private, nothing behind a login, no watch history.
• Comment lists are not always handed over in full. When Bilibili will not page through them,

you get the top comments it does give for that video, and the status message says so.

• Tags can come back empty on a large run, counted in the status. Turn Add tags off if you

do not need them.

• The popular list holds about 650 videos and a leaderboard 100. Asking for more does not

produce more.

• A sub-zone window is capped at 90 days, and a longer range stops the run before it starts.
• Anime series (番剧) has almost nothing on its leaderboard.
• Dates are Beijing dates, whatever your own clock says.

🧭 Which video scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need a Bilibili account? No. No login and no cookie.

Can I search Bilibili for a word? Only inside a sub-zone, with Keyword set under Top videos in a sub-zone. There is no whole-site search here.

Why are some tags empty? The tag lookup is a separate request per video and Bilibili does not always answer it on a big run. The status message counts how many.

Why did I get fewer comments than I asked for? Either the video has fewer, or Bilibili would not page through them and only the top ones came back. Either way you pay for what arrived.

What is a coin? Bilibili's own currency, which viewers spend on videos they rate. coins is usually a better quality signal than likes.

Is scraping Bilibili legal? These are public video, list and comment pages. Comments carry personal data, which GDPR and similar laws cover, and Bilibili's terms govern reuse, so have a reason and read the terms. Apify's write-up on scraping and the law is a starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Send the run ID and the links or IDs you used. The status message and RUN_REPORT usually name the problem between them.