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Bilibili Source

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  • Updated August 4, 2026
  • daymade/claude-code-skills

Fetches login-free Bilibili video metadata and stats (views, likes, tags, danmaku) for citable data.

About

Fetches real, verifiable Bilibili video metadata and engagement stats via a single API call. A developer uses it when ingesting a Bilibili source or citing accurate view/like counts instead of estimating.

  • One JSON object with title, UP stats, tags, and live metrics
  • Accepts BVID, av numbers, b23.tv links, or full URLs

Bilibili Source by the numbers

  • 170 all-time installs (skills.sh)
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  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Repositorydaymade/claude-code-skills

What it does

Fetches login-free Bilibili video metadata and stats (views, likes, tags, danmaku) for citable data.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

bilibili-source

Fetch real, verifiable data for a Bilibili video so you can cite it instead of guessing. Engagement numbers are the backbone of any honest "why did this do well" analysis, and hand-typed or estimated numbers are the fastest way a knowledge base rots. This skill makes the numbers cheap to fetch — so there is no excuse to invent them.

Quick start

scripts/bili-fetch.sh BV1xxxxxxxxx

Returns one JSON object with everything from a single view/detail API call:

{
  "bvid": "BV1xxxxxxxxx",
  "aid": 1234567890,
  "fetched_at": "2026-06-07T13:54:17Z",
  "url": "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1xxxxxxxxx",
  "title": "<video title>",
  "up": { "name": "<UP name>", "mid": 12345678, "fans": 45600 },
  "pubdate": "2026-01-10T00:50:47Z",
  "tname": "<partition, may be empty>",
  "tags": ["<tag>", "<tag>"],
  "videos": 1,
  "duration_s": 372,
  "stat": { "view": 48000, "like": 1200, "coin": 180, "favorite": 950,
            "share": 64, "reply": 210, "danmaku": 130 },
  "pages": [ { "cid": 12345678, "page": 1, "part": "<part title>", "duration": 372 } ]
}

bili-fetch.sh accepts any form a user might paste — BVID, `av` number, `b23.tv` short link, or full URL — and normalizes it. For multi-part videos it returns every part's cid in pages[] (you need the per-part cid to fetch that part's danmaku or subtitles).

Scripts

ScriptWhat it doesLogin
scripts/bili-fetch.sh <ref>Core: full metadata + live stats (run this first)No
scripts/bili-danmaku.sh <ref> [P]Danmaku (bullet-comment) full text for a partNo
scripts/bili-subs.sh <ref> [browser]Subtitle/transcript trackYes
scripts/bili-selftest.shHealth-check every capability against the live APINo

All three execute (don't read them as reference). bili-danmaku.sh reuses bili-fetch.sh to resolve the part's cid, so they must stay siblings in scripts/.

Danmaku are time-synced comments overlaid on the video — a Bilibili-specific signal of where and how viewers reacted, qualitatively richer than a flat reply count:

scripts/bili-danmaku.sh BV1xxxxxxxxx     # P1; add a part number for multi-part videos

Rules that keep the data honest

  • Live metrics → always cite `fetched_at`. The same video re-fetched minutes later drifts (a view count can tick up by a few within a single session). That is not an error — it is proof the data is live. A bare "12,000 views" with no timestamp is meaningless and silently goes stale.
  • NO FABRICATION. If a number can't be fetched, write "未获取/未核实" — never estimate. The whole point of the skill is that the number is cheap to fetch.
  • The scripts already handle the network quirks so you don't reinvent them: they strip the local proxy (Bilibili is a domestic CN service that a 127.0.0.1 proxy breaks), send a browser User-Agent + Referer (avoids the occasional HTTP 412), and retry with backoff. If you call the API by hand, do the same — see references/bilibili_api.md.
  • CJK post-processing trap. When you later grep/sort the fetched Chinese text or filenames, sort/comm mishandle CJK collation and report false "missing"/"broken" results. Verify with find -name or grep -F, not comm.

Subtitles require login (no bypass)

Stats and danmaku are login-free. Subtitles are not. Verified across many videos (new and old) plus anonymous cookies: the public player API returns an empty subtitle list for anonymous requests, and yt-dlp reports "Subtitles are only available when logged in." There is no login-free path — do not try to bypass it.

bili-subs.sh therefore needs the user's Bilibili session via browser cookies. Because it reads their logged-in session, ask the user before running it:

scripts/bili-subs.sh BV1xxxxxxxxx chrome   # or firefox / safari / edge

The ai-zh track is Bilibili's AI-generated subtitle — treat it as a draft transcript (same-sound/segmentation errors), mark it as AI-ASR in whatever you produce, and don't claim it is a human-checked verbatim. If a video has no subtitle track, there is nothing to fetch — don't invent one. A SESSDATA-env API alternative is documented in the reference.

Going deeper

For the full endpoint catalog (UP fan history, video tags, real-time viewer count, danmaku archive, the SESSDATA subtitle path), the WBI request-signing algorithm needed for space/wbi/* endpoints, and every gotcha with a tested command, see [references/bilibili_api.md](references/bilibili_api.md).

Verified status

  • Stats / metadata / danmaku (view/detail, relation/stat, dm/list.so, online/total): verified login-free, 2026-06-07. Metrics re-fetched repeatedly and matched independently; danmaku count matched stat.danmaku.
  • Subtitles: confirmed login-gated, 2026-06-07 (empty for anonymous across all videos tested). Needs yt-dlp for the cookie path.

Maintenance

This skill wraps a third-party API that drifts over time — fields get renamed, endpoints add WBI signing, anti-bot tightens. Before trusting it after a gap, or whenever output looks wrong, run the health-check:

scripts/bili-selftest.sh

It hits every capability (and the login-gate invariant) against a stable public fixture and prints one PASS/FAIL row per capability, so drift surfaces as a clear FAIL pointing at what broke — not a silent wrong answer. When a row fails, the endpoint paths, field names, and WBI signing needed to fix it are in references/bilibili_api.md; update the "Verified" dates above once you re-confirm.

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