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Bilibili (B站) trending videos: full engagement economics, keyless
Bilibili's hot boards are where Chinese youth culture, tech, gaming and knowledge trends surface. The Bilibili (B站) Trending Scraper reads those live boards and returns trending videos with their full engagement economics — views, likes, coins (投币), favorites (收藏), shares, comments and danmaku — plus the creator and three-level category. No login, no account, no cookies, no API key; run it with zero input to sweep every board.
Who it's for
- Trend researchers tracking what is rising on Bilibili daily, per category.
- Content teams mining high-engagement titles, formats and categories.
- Creator discovery — finding the UP主 behind trending videos.
- Market analysts watching momentum via coins and favorites, Bilibili's strongest quality signals.
What you get
| Group | Fields |
|---|---|
| Video | bvid/aid (ids), URL, title, description, duration, feed, three-level category, cover, short link, publish time & location |
| Creator | UP主 mid, name, avatar |
| Engagement | Views, likes, coins, favorites, shares, replies, danmaku — every value a real integer; historical hot-board rank; recommend reason |
Measured on a 400-video popular sweep + the 98-video precious list (2026-10-27): 400/400 unique, all core fields 100% filled, view median ≈ 534,000, every video over 10,000 views — 0 blocked exits, 0 read failures.
Input
| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
feeds | popular (sitewide hot board, deep) and/or precious (curated must-watch); empty = all |
maxResults · maxPages | Hard cap on unique videos (default 500) · max pages walked per feed (default 500) |
maxRunSeconds · proxyConfiguration | Optional soft time budget · Apify datacenter proxy by default |
{ "feeds": ["popular", "precious"], "maxResults": 500 }Honest limits
- Discovery only — keyword search, region rankings, video detail, comments, subtitles and user profiles require Bilibili's login/wbi-signature API and are out of scope; the Actor never returns empty columns it cannot fill.
- The hot board has a finite depth — raise
maxResultsonly up to what the board carries, and add thepreciousfeed. - A field is
nullwhen Bilibili didn't carry it; a risk-controlled exit just means "rerun" (exits rotate).
Pricing
Pay per delivered unique video; a run that delivers nothing is not charged. Collecting the whole hot board is a single, inexpensive run. Current prices are on the actor's Pricing tab on Apify.
Read Bilibili's hot boards: trending videos with coins, favorites and the full engagement set, keyless. Exportable to JSON, CSV or Excel.
Open the Bilibili Trending Scraper →Related
Other Chinese-platform trending scrapers: the Xiaohongshu (RedNote) Trending Scraper for the consumer home feed, the Douban Movie & TV Scraper for ratings and reviews, and the WeChat Article Scraper for official-account content.
Frequently asked questions
Does it need my Bilibili login or cookies?
No. It never logs in and never asks you for an account, cookie, API key or proxy of your own. It reads Bilibili's public trending JSON over a rotating proxy exit, with no wbi signature.
Which trending feeds can I pull?
popular (the sitewide hot board, deep) and precious (the curated must-watch list), or both. Run it with empty input and it sweeps every trending board by default.
Can it do keyword search, region rankings, comments or subtitles?
No. Those are login or wbi-signature gated and out of scope by design; the Actor focuses on the public trending feeds and never fakes data it cannot read.
Do I need a residential proxy?
No. Bilibili's trending JSON is reachable over the default Apify datacenter proxy. Switch to residential only if an exit gets risk-controlled; a single blocked exit is retried, not fatal.
How meaningful are the trending videos?
Measured on a 400-video popular sweep plus the 98-video precious list: all core fields 100% filled, view median about 534,000, every video over 10,000 views and none at 0 — genuinely trending, with coins and favorites, Bilibili's strongest quality signals.
Using the data lawfully
The Actor reads only publicly served, non-personal trending data that Bilibili renders to any visitor. Use the output in line with Bilibili's terms and applicable law; do not use it to store personal data without a lawful basis.
Bilibili (B站) Trending Scraper — hot-board videos with the full engagement set, keyless. Pay per video, no API key.
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