/v1/search"platform": "bilibili"Bilibili Search API
Find videos by keyword.
Search Bilibili videos by keyword and get back text, author, likes, comment count, views and publish time, as JSON over HTTP or from your AI client over MCP. A call to the Bilibili Search API costs 2 credits ($0.004 to $0.0067 depending on the pack), failed calls are free, and the response has the same format as every other call. Last tested 2026-11-05.
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limit: 100 and one call pages for you: at most 5 pages, 10 credits. It stops once it has them or the list ends; pages it does not use are not charged, and neither are pages that fail. Reading 1,000 items comes to about 100 credits, about $0.33.Daily watch: tell your AI “watch this daily” and this call runs by itself every day, sending only what is new: at most 62 credits a month, about $0.21. How to set it up
What you get from the Bilibili Search API.
From a recorded answer.
A recorded call returned 20 items; here is the first, field by field. Names and text are removed from the sample; the numbers are as recorded.
Lighter for your AI: the same recorded data (20 items) is about 10,092 tokens as the platform's raw JSON and about 4,935 as this interface returns it, 51% fewer (measured 2026-11-06). How it was measured
| Field | In the recorded answer |
|---|---|
| url | removed from the sample |
| format | video |
| title | removed from the sample |
| text | null |
| published_at | 2026-09-30T08:55:00.000Z |
| author.id | removed from the sample |
| author.username | null: Bilibili cannot give it |
| author.name | removed from the sample |
| author.verified | null: Bilibili cannot give it |
| author.followers | null: Bilibili cannot give it |
| metrics.likes | 237 |
| metrics.comments | 64 |
| metrics.shares | null: Bilibili cannot give it |
| metrics.collects | 169 |
| metrics.views | 35,706 |
| metrics.reposts | null: Bilibili cannot give it |
| images | null: Bilibili cannot give it |
| hashtags | 2 entries |
| is_pinned | null: Bilibili cannot give it |
2 credits a call (≈ $0.004–$0.0067): about 1,500 calls for $10.
Bilibili Search API: request and response
curl https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SOCIALTOAI_API_KEY" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "platform": "bilibili", "query": "机械键盘" }'import osimport uuidimport requestsresponse = requests.post( "https://api.socialtoai.com/v1/search", headers={ "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SOCIALTOAI_API_KEY']}", # A new key for each request; the same one again retries it without paying twice. "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()), }, json={ "platform": "bilibili", "query": "机械键盘", },)print(response.json())# Connected over MCP? Ask in plain words.Search Bilibili for videos about "机械键盘".# Your AI calls the search tool with:{ "platform": "bilibili", "query": "机械键盘"}sort{ "platform": "bilibili", "status": "ok", "items": [ { "platform": "bilibili", "id": "…", "ref": "…", "approx": [], "type": "content", "url": "https://example.com/…", "format": "video", "title": "…", "text": null, "published_at": "2026-09-30T08:55:00.000Z", "author": { "id": "…", "username": null, "name": "…", "verified": null, "followers": null }, "metrics": { "likes": 237, "comments": 64, "shares": null, "collects": 169, "views": 35706, "reposts": null }, "images": null, "hashtags": ["…", "…"], "is_pinned": null } ], "unavailable": ["author.username", "author.verified", "author.followers", "metrics.shares", "metrics.reposts", "images", "is_pinned"], "page": { "has_more": true, "cursor": "cur_…", "cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-12T19:17:48.000Z" }, "cost_credits": 2}nullcollects 169views 35,706Names and text were removed from the sample; the numbers are as recorded.
Bilibili Search API parameters.
4 parameters, 2 required.
Send them as a JSON body with POST. Your key goes in the Authorization header, never in the URL.
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| platform | string | Required | — | Always "bilibili" on this page. |
| query | string | Required | — | Search terms |
| sort | string | Optional | "relevance" | By relevance, by time published (newest first) or by views"relevance""latest""popular" |
| cursor | string | Optional | — | Pass page.cursor from the last response to get the next page. |
Bilibili Search API response fields.
What Bilibili cannot give is marked.
| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| items[].url | string | A link that opens the item. |
| items[].format | string | video, image, text or article. |
| items[].title | string | The title. |
| items[].text | string | The body text or caption. |
| items[].published_at | string | When it was published, ISO 8601 in UTC. |
| items[].author.id | string | The author's account ID. |
| items[].author.username | stringalways null | The author's handle. |
| items[].author.name | string | The author's display name. |
| items[].author.verified | booleanalways null | Whether the author is verified. |
| items[].author.followers | integeralways null | The author's follower count. |
| items[].metrics.likes | integer | Likes. |
| items[].metrics.comments | integer | Comments. |
| items[].metrics.shares | integeralways null | Shares. |
| items[].metrics.collects | integer | Saves. |
| items[].metrics.views | integer | Views or plays. |
| items[].metrics.reposts | integeralways null | Reposts. |
| items[].images | string[]always null | Image addresses. |
| items[].hashtags | string[] | Hashtags, without the #. |
| items[].is_pinned | booleanalways null | Whether the author pinned it. |
nullFields Bilibili cannot giveRead null as “Bilibili did not give this”, not as zero. These are always null on this call:
author.usernameThe author's handle.author.verifiedWhether the author is verified.author.followersThe author's follower count.metrics.sharesShares.metrics.repostsReposts.imagesImage addresses.is_pinnedWhether the author pinned it.
Compared with the Douyin Search API, this call also gives views but does not give author followers, shares or images.
Every item also has platform, id, ref, approx and type; the response around the items is the same on every call. Response format
Bilibili Search API: paging and billing.
5 calls per second per key, 20 after a purchase; going over is not charged. Rate limits
A failed call costs 0 credits and is never retried on its own. Error codes
“Last tested” above is the last day a real call of this interface succeeded. Each call reads from the platform, and fetched_at in the answer is when it was read. The same request sent again with the same key within 5 minutes is a replay (replayed: true): 0 credits, and the answer as first read.
Once connected over MCP, these questions use the Bilibili Search API.
Search Bilibili for videos about "机械键盘".
2 creditssearch {"platform":"bilibili","query":"机械键盘"}Search Bilibili for videos about "机械键盘", with sort set to latest.
2 creditssearch {"platform":"bilibili","query":"机械键盘","sort":"latest"}
Give this to your AI.
Copy it into Claude or ChatGPT.
How to connectUse the SocialToAI MCP server (https://mcp.socialtoai.com/mcp) for this: Search Bilibili for videos about "机械键盘".Call the search tool with {"platform":"bilibili","query":"机械键盘"}. Needed: query; optional: sort (relevance, latest, popular).For many items pass limit (limit=100 is at most 5 pages) and one call pages for you; each page costs 2 credits and unused pages are not charged.Before you start, work out how many credits it will take in all and ask me; call it only after I agree.What usually comes next, with the ref or username it returns: detail (Detail), comments (Comments).If SocialToAI is not connected yet, tell me how to connect it; never ask me to paste a key into the chat.Answer with a link to every item you used, and tell me how many credits it cost.Paste it into a chat once SocialToAI is connected over MCP. There is no key in it: Claude and ChatGPT sign in, other clients send a key in a header.
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