Scrape video pages on bilibili.com

About bilibili.com

bilibili.com describes itself as “Bilibili (bilibili.com) is a well-known Chinese video bullet-comment site, with timely new anime releases, an active ACG atmosphere and creative uploaders. Everyone can find plenty of fun here”.

Its sitemaps list 40,526 URLs across 12 files (ranking, online, newlist, baidu_schema, detail). 40,526 of the 40,526 dated entries changed in the last 30 days, the newest on 6 Sep 2026.

Its robots.txt disallows 2 paths.

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 99.9%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 0.4% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 2.8s.

Among the 5 entertainment sites in the Cookbook, bilibili.com ranks 2 of 5 by success rate; the category median is 99.6%. Its median answer of 2.8s is slower than the category median of 1.8s. 3 of the 5 accept the plain token, this one among them.

The call

The most common shape of URL the accounts fetch, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real one from the site.

curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bilibili.com%2Fvideo%2FBV1FV411d7u7%2F"

from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI
api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_TOKEN'})

r = api.get('https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1FV411d7u7/')
html = r['body']

const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase');
const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const r = await api.get('https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1FV411d7u7/');

Parameters that matter

URL patterns accounts fetch

Fields you get

Structured data Crawlbase found on bilibili.com, by page type. These are the schema.org types in the page, the fields your parser can read straight from the JSON-LD block:

• Detail page: WebPage, VideoObject, BreadcrumbList

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

Run it on a schedule

The median answer on this site is 2.8s. Push a URL list to the Crawler with a callback for anything larger than a few thousand pages a day; it paces the calls and retries what the site refuses.

Questions

Other pages on bilibili.com

Pages bilibili.com lists in its own sitemaps, fetched by Crawlbase on 6 Sep 2026 and verified in 2 consecutive runs. Each row is the cheapest call that returned the page with its content.