Is there an API for Bilibili's popular (热门) board?

A content team that checks Bilibili's popular board every morning learns fast which formats are breaking out this week: a new meme, a game patch, a kind of explainer everyone suddenly copies. Doing that by scrolling the site works until you want it in a spreadsheet, compared week over week, or summarised by a model before the stand-up. Then you want the board as data.

The endpoint

Bilibili popular board takes no parameters. Each row has:

• rank, the position on the board
• name, the video title
• heat, the video's view count at the moment of fetching
• url, the video link, which contains the BV id

The board is longer than one page. Pass page.next_cursor back as cursor to go further down; each page is a separate call.

Want likes, coins or the uploader for a row? Hand its link to Bilibili video detail for $0.002 each.

Cost

Routine	Calls	Cost
One snapshot, first page	1	$0.002
Three snapshots a day for 30 days	90	$0.18
Same, three pages deep each time	270	$0.54
Daily snapshot plus detail on the top 10	30 + 300	{{cost:bilibili.trends.list30+bilibili.videos.get300}}

Morning snapshot in Python

import json, os, datetime, requests

API = "https://api.okdata.online"
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['OKDATA_API_KEY']}"}

board = requests.get(API + "/v1/bilibili/trends/list", headers=H, timeout=60).json()
rows = board["data"]["items"]

top = []
for row in rows[:10]:
    bv = row["url"].rstrip("/").split("/")[-1]
    d = requests.get(API + "/v1/bilibili/videos/get", headers=H,
                     params={"id": bv, "view": "full"}, timeout=60).json()["data"]["item"]
    top.append({"rank": row["rank"], "title": row["name"], "views": row["heat"],
                "coins": d["ext"]["coins"], "section": d["ext"]["section"], "up": d["author"]["name"]})

stamp = datetime.date.today().isoformat()
json.dump(top, open(f"bili-popular-{stamp}.json", "w", encoding="utf-8"), ensure_ascii=False, indent=1)

What the board does not include

• heat is plain view count, not Bilibili's internal ranking score. A video can sit above one with more views.
• Only the current 综合热门 board is available. Section rankings, the weekly 每周必看 list and the 入站必刷 collection are not in the catalog.
• There is no history endpoint. If you want last month's boards, start saving snapshots now; a file per day, as above, is enough.

Other ways

Open-source projects such as DailyHotApi and RSSHub include a Bilibili popular route you can host yourself for free, and they are a good fit if you already run one of them. For a quick look, the 热门 tab on bilibili.com is the source itself. The trend research guide shows how to put this board next to Weibo and Douyin hot lists.