Bilibili API
8 endpoints read Bilibili: videos, users, comments, trends. From $0.0020 a call. No Bilibili login and no cookie; a failed call is free.
One call, as it came back
A recorded call, fields already tidied up: ready for an AI or a spreadsheet.The first 6 rows of a response recorded 2026-10-12 18:47 UTC.
Run it in the Playground · $0.0020{
"code": "ok",
"request_id": "dee21d14-3682-420a-acad-8806b2d59dfe",
"data": {
"items": [
{
"id": "BV1M05Rhoe4r",
"url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1M05Rhoe4r",
"type": "video",
"title": "实测一个月机械键盘，结论有点意外",
"text": null,
"published_at": "2026-09-30T08:55:00.000Z",
"author": {
"id": "585724901",
"name": "阿杰爱折腾",
"avatar_url": "https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/face/17a7658e63c84808ef09bb48.jpg"
},
"metrics": {
"likes": 237,
"comments": 64,
"favorites": 169,
"views": 35706
},
"hashtags": [
"户外生活",
"好物分享",
// … 8 more
]
},
// … 19 more
]
},
"page": {
"next_cursor": "c1.72NAeDsxx6zMLTUXCjX2T5Su39puxExBbLOvdWBm",
"cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-12T19:47:48.000Z",
"has_more": true,
"returned": 20
},
"warnings": [],
"meta": {
"capability": "bilibili.videos.search",
"result_status": "complete",
"fetched_at": "2026-10-12T18:47:48.000Z",
"cached": false,
"replayed": false,
"unavailable": {
"lang": "capability",
"author.username": "platform",
"author.verified": "capability",
"author.followers": "capability",
"metrics.shares": "capability",
"metrics.reposts": "platform",
"images": "platform",
"mentions": "capability",
"is_pinned": "capability",
"post_id": "platform",
"parent_id": "platform",
"root_id": "platform"
},
"billing": {
"amount": "0.002",
"currency": "USD",
"balance_after": "9.998"
}
}
}From a response recorded 2026-10-12 18:47 UTC. Names, text and IDs are examples, and so are the links: none is the recorded one (the page shows no one's personal data); the figures are as recorded. Long lists are cut. The request ID, cursor and balance are made up.
What you can get
Each row is an endpoint: what it returns and what one call costs.
What people build with it
Ready-made tasks your AI can run on Bilibili data. Each is a few calls under a spending cap.
Comments and word of mouth
“What are people praising and complaining about under this post?”
Competitor account monitoring
“What did competitors post this week, and which post took off?”
Keyword search and mentions
“What is being said about this brand or keyword on each platform?”
Ask about Bilibili right inside Claude or Cursor
Add the DataXAPI MCP server and the AI finds the Bilibili endpoint it needs and calls it; answers link back to the source. You pay for the calls it makes.
https://api.dataxapi.com/mcpStart in three steps
The call shown here is Bilibili video search. Every other Bilibili endpoint is called the same way and answers in the same envelope.
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Call it, or let your AI call it
One GET from your code. Or paste this prompt into your agent with your key in it: it sets itself up, then finds and calls these endpoints by itself.
Read the same shape every time
Items are in data.items (one object in data.item), the next page in page.next_cursor, the charge in meta.billing.amount. A failed call is not charged.
curl -G "https://api.dataxapi.com/v1/bilibili/videos/search" \ --data-urlencode "query=机械键盘" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $DATAXAPI_API_KEY"
from dataxapi import DataXAPI dx = DataXAPI() # reads DATAXAPI_API_KEY result = dx.bilibili.videos.search(query="机械键盘") print(result["data"]["items"])
import { DataXAPI } from "@dataxapi/sdk";
const dx = new DataXAPI(); // reads DATAXAPI_API_KEY
const result = await dx.bilibili.videos.search({ query: "机械键盘" });
console.log(result.data.items);dataxapi call bilibili.videos.search 'query=机械键盘'{
"mcpServers": {
"dataxapi": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.dataxapi.com/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer ${DATAXAPI_API_KEY}"
}
}
}
}Add this to your MCP client, then ask your agent to call bilibili.videos.search.
Edge cases
What the Bilibili endpoints do at their edges, and what to check when a call does not return what you expected.
- Page sizes
- A list returns 20 to 50 items a page, depending on the endpoint. 5 of the 6 lists go on to a next page:
page.next_cursor, passed back ascursor, each page a call of its own. The others return one page only. - Fields it cannot give
- 8 of the 8 endpoints cannot fill every field of the object they return. Each endpoint's page lists which, and every answer repeats them in
meta.unavailable: a missing field is never a silent zero. - A missing object that reads as empty
- Bilibili user videos: an object that does not exist cannot be told from one with nothing under it, so the answer is an empty result, not a 404, and is charged as an empty result is.
- Snapshots
- Bilibili hot searches, Bilibili popular videos: a board is a snapshot refreshed every 10 minutes, and
meta.fetched_atsays when it was taken. - The BV number
- A video is named by its BV number, 12 characters starting with BV1, or by its page link (bilibili.com/video/BV…); b23.tv short links are not taken.
- The user number (mid)
- A user is named by the digits after space.bilibili.com/ in a space link.
- Replies need two IDs
- Replies take the comment's ID and its video's BV number, both as the comment list returns them (
idandpost_id). - Fewer counts in an upload list
- A user's video list gives views, comments and danmaku, but no likes, coins, saves or shares; read a video's detail for those.
- Empty is not “not found”
- A user number nobody has returns an empty video list, charged as an empty result.
Questions about the Bilibili API
Short answers. The details are on each endpoint's page.
How is the Bilibili API priced?
Per call, no subscription. All 8 endpoints cost $0.0020 a call. You are charged when data comes back; a failed call costs nothing.
Do I need a Bilibili account or a cookie?
No. One DataXAPI key is all you hold: no Bilibili login, no cookie, no device to keep alive. The endpoints return publicly visible data only.
Is the data live?
A call fetches from Bilibili at that moment, and meta.fetched_at says when. Bilibili hot searches, Bilibili popular videos: a board is a snapshot refreshed every 10 minutes. A result is kept for 24 hours, so a retry with the same Idempotency-Key is not charged again.
Is an empty result charged?
A list that comes back empty is charged its price: the search was run. Reading one object that does not exist answers not_found and is free.
What happens when Bilibili changes something?
A call that fails is not charged, whatever the reason. An endpoint that is paused answers capability_paused, also free, and GET /v1/catalog/status says what is up right now.
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