Bilibili Scraper API

China's youth-culture video platform has no official open Bilibili API – what exists is reverse-engineered and shifts without notice. Our scraper API collects the public metadata layer instead: rankings, view counts, danmaku volumes, and uploader stats, with China-side access built in.

* This scraper is now a part of the Web Scraping API.

125M+

IPs worldwide

99.99%

success rate

200

requests per second

100+

ready-made templates

Free

starter plan

Be ahead of the Bilibili scraping game

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What is Bilibili scraper API?

Scope defines this page: the target is Bilibili's metadata, not its media. Video files carry copyright and stay out of collection entirely – what the public pages offer is the measurement layer:

  • Ranking positions across categories and time windows
  • View, like, coin, and favorite counts
  • Danmaku (bullet-comment) volume signals
  • Uploader follower counts and output cadence

Brands running China marketing read Bilibili rankings as youth-demographic trend data, MCN agencies track creator trajectories, and researchers study the platform's distinctive engagement culture. Community Bilibili API wrappers exist but break unannounced – public pages are the surface that stays public.

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Collect Bilibili data

Trend measurement is diff work on a schedule. The Web Scraping API samples ranking and video pages through China-appropriate origins, and count fields – views, danmaku, coins – become time series that show acceleration, which is the actual trend signal. The Social Media Scraping API brings the same engagement-metrics treatment to platforms outside the Chinese ecosystem, so cross-platform creator analytics share one pipeline shape.

Built-in scraper

JavaScript rendering

Easy API integration

195+ geo-locations, including country-, state-, and city-level targeting

No CAPTCHAs or IP blocks

Scrape Bilibili with Python, Node.js, or cURL

Our Bilibili Scraper API supports all popular programming languages for smooth integration with your business tools.

import requests
url = "https://scraper-api.decodo.com/v2/scrape"
payload = {
"url": "https://www.bilibili.com/v/popular/rank/all",
"headless": "html"
}
headers = {
"accept": "application/json",
"content-type": "application/json",
"authorization": "Basic [YOUR_BASE64_ENCODED_CREDENTIALS]"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)

Get more from the Bilibili scraper API

Scrape Bilibili using an API that handles JavaScript rendering and proxy integration for you, so you get the data you need without blocks or CAPTCHAs.

100% success rate

Metadata pages only bill when they arrive – regional friction recycles at no cost.

Advanced anti-bot bypass

Chinese platforms run their own detection styles – CN-plausible origins and steady rhythms carry collection.

Real-time or on-demand results

Check one video's velocity an hour after upload, or archive full category rankings daily.

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125M+ proxy pool

CN-side exits are the working baseline – the platform serves its home audience first.

JavaScript rendering

Rankings and count widgets paint client-side – rendering delivers the numbers as shown.

Easy integration

Ranking and video URLs are stable and enumerable – category coverage is a compact target list.

What does Web Data API cost?

Choose a plan based on your data collection volume. All plans include the same powerful features – you only pay for what you use. Start with the free plan to test before committing.

10 req/s

$0

/month

Up to 5K crawls or 10K pages scraped

10 req/s

$19

/month

Up to 19K crawls or 38K pages scraped

25 req/s

$49

/month

Up to 65K crawls or 122K pages scraped

50 req/s

$99

/month

Up to 141K crawls or 330K pages scraped

100 req/s

$249

/month

Up to 383K crawls or 1.2M pages scraped

See full pricing details in the documentation.

With each plan, you access:

JavaScript rendering

99.99% success rate

HTML, Markdown, XHR, plus JSON, CSV, PNG where supported

One-click AI integrations

LLM-ready Markdown format

100+ pre-built templates

Single API key for all endpoints

/scrape, /search, /map, /crawl

24/7 tech support

14-day money-back

SSL Secure Payment

Your information is protected by 256-bit SSL

Why the scraping community chooses Decodo

135K+ developers, SEOs, and data teams rely on Decodo to collect public web data at scale – including from Bilibili. Whether you're shipping a side project or running production pipelines, our infrastructure is built to keep your Bilibili scraper running while you focus on what to do with the data.

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125M+ residential, mobile, datacenter, and ISP proxies

Manage proxy rotation yourself

Limited proxy pools

Advanced browser fingerprinting

Build CAPTCHA solvers

Frequent CAPTCHA blocks

Only pay for successful requests

Handle retries manually

Pay for failed requests

100+ ready-made scraping templates

Maintenance overhead

Complex documentation

Data in JSON, CSV, HTML, and Markdown formats

Days to implement

Limited output formats

Why the scraping community chooses Decodo

135K+ developers, SEOs, and data teams rely on Decodo to collect public web data at scale – including from Bilibili. Ship a side project or run production pipelines – our infrastructure keeps your Bilibili scraper running while you focus on what to do with the data.

Attentive service

The professional expertise of the Decodo solution has significantly boosted our business growth while enhancing overall efficiency and effectiveness.

Easy to get things done

Decodo provides great service with a simple setup and friendly support team.

A key to our work

Decodo enables us to develop and test applications in varied environments while supporting precise data collection for research and audience profiling.

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Best Usability 2025

Awarded for the ease of use and fastest time to value for proxy and scraping solutions.

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Praised for the seamless onboarding experience and impactful engagement efforts.

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Recognized for the 5th year in a row for top-tier proxy and scraping solutions.

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Frequently asked questions

Is it legal to scrape Bilibili?

Faces and voices attract their own rules. Video and images collected from Bilibili can carry identifiers that text never would. Treat those files as the sensitive part of the record. Our personal data in video and images explains what applies.

How does the Bilibili scraper API bypass blocks and CAPTCHAs?

Detection here follows Chinese-platform conventions – origin plausibility, session behavior, and rate rhythms. China-side exits, rendered sessions, and measured pacing form the posture, with automatic retries covering challenges. Metadata cadences sit comfortably inside sustainable rates.

What output formats does the Bilibili scraper API support?

Ranking and video pages arrive as HTML, or as count-field JSON typed numerically – view velocity math wants integers, not strings. The YouTube scraper API extends the identical metadata approach to the global video ecosystem.

Can I geo-target Bilibili requests to a specific country or city?

China-side origins are the practical requirement – the platform serves complete, current data to its home market first. In-China exits anchor collection, with the rest of the 195+ geo-locations available for comparing any internationally-served surfaces.

How fast is the Bilibili scraper API and can it handle large-scale jobs?

Daily archives of every category's rankings plus hourly sampling of tracked videos is a modest scheduled workload. Concurrency follows plan tier, responses arrive in seconds through appropriate origins, and upload-spike events – festival weeks, viral moments – fit the same pipeline at denser cadence.

Can I try the Bilibili scraper API for free?

Yes – the free starter plan is card-free and carries up to 2K requests. A two-week trend-tracking pilot on a category fits comfortably inside that. Judge the metadata quality against your China-market questions directly.

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