About bilitrack
bilitrack is a CLI and MCP server for reading public Bilibili data. It helps users track accounts and content, including posts, comment threads, and optional video subtitles.
Key features
- 01Search users and view profiles
- 02List videos, dynamics, and articles
- 03Inspect followings
- 04Read content comments and replies
- 05Fetch video subtitle details or text
Use cases
- 01Review a Bilibili user’s recent posts
- 02Search a creator’s videos by keyword
- 03Read comments on videos or articles
- 04Retrieve subtitles for a video
MCP support
Its stdio MCP server exposes tools for searching Bilibili users and retrieving user, video, article, dynamic, comment, and subtitle data from the public web API.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
12Saved tool list · updated 1w ago
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | No | Maximum number of users to return (default 20). |
| keyword | string | Yes | Keyword to search Bilibili users by. |
Details
From the project READMEbilitrack
bilitrack follows people and content on Bilibili: look a user up, see what they have posted lately — videos, dynamics, and articles — check who they follow, and read the comment threads under a video, dynamic, or article, including subtitle text for a video when you ask for it. Everything is read from Bilibili's public web API.
This package is a clean-room rebuild of the 12-tool BiliStalkerMCP tool list, written fresh from its public README spec.
How it talks to the service
Each tool maps onto a public endpoint under
https://api.bilibili.com/x/... and returns that endpoint's data
payload:
# Optional: a logged-in session raises limits and unlocks gated reads.
export SESSDATA="your SESSDATA cookie value"
export BILI_JCT="your bili_jct cookie value (optional)"
export BUVID3="your buvid3 cookie value (optional)"
# Optional override (default: https://api.bilibili.com)
export BILIBILI_API_URL="https://api.bilibili.com"
The cookies are genuinely optional. With none set, requests go out
cookieless, which Bilibili accepts for most public reads — nothing
fails just because SESSDATA is missing. When the API answers with a
non-zero code, the call fails with that code and message; an
upstream HTTP error is reported with its status and a body excerpt.
Username resolution: tools take user_id_or_username. A numeric
value is used as the user's mid directly; anything else is resolved
through user search and only an exact username match is accepted —
a near match is an error, not a guess.
Subtitle simplification: with fetch_subtitles set,
get_video_detail uses the player API to list subtitle tracks and
returns either the track metadata (subtitle_scope: "metadata") or
the joined text of the selected track (by subtitle_lang, or the
first track), truncated to subtitle_max_chars when given. It does
not stitch multi-part or AI-generated tracks the way a full player
client would.
Install
npx @reneturcios/bilitrack search_users '{"keyword":"example"}'
Or run the container image:
docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/bilitrack
The container defaults to the MCP server. Pass CLI arguments to use it as a CLI instead.
CLI
The CLI mirrors the tools: one subcommand per tool, taking its arguments as a single JSON object.
bilitrack search_users '{"keyword":"example","limit":5}'
bilitrack get_user_info '{"user_id_or_username":"12345"}'
bilitrack get_user_snapshot '{"user_id_or_username":"example"}'
bilitrack get_user_videos '{"user_id_or_username":"12345","page":2}'
bilitrack get_video_detail '{"bvid":"BV1xx411c7mD","fetch_subtitles":true,"subtitle_lang":"zh-CN"}'
bilitrack get_content_comments '{"content_type":"video","content_id":"12345","sort":"hot"}'
bilitrack --version
Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on an API or validation error (the
error names the problem), 2 for usage errors.
MCP server
One bin serves both faces. The mcp subcommand starts a stdio MCP
server:
npx -y @reneturcios/bilitrack mcp
MCP client configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"bilitrack": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/bilitrack", "mcp"],
"env": { "SESSDATA": "your cookie value (optional)" }
}
}
}
Tools
All ID parameters are strings in these schemas.
| Tool | Input | What it does |
|---|---|---|
search_users | keyword (required), limit | Search Bilibili users by keyword. |
get_user_snapshot | user_id_or_username (required), video_limit, dynamic_limit, article_limit | Get a combined snapshot of a Bilibili user: profile, videos, dynamics, and articles. |
get_user_info | user_id_or_username (required) | Get profile information for a Bilibili user. |
get_user_videos | user_id_or_username (required), page, limit | List a Bilibili user's videos, paged. |
search_user_videos | user_id_or_username (required), keyword (required), page, limit | Search within a Bilibili user's videos by keyword. |
get_video_detail | bvid (required), fetch_subtitles, subtitle_scope, subtitle_page, subtitle_cid, subtitle_mode, subtitle_lang, subtitle_max_chars | Get detail for a Bilibili video by BVID, optionally fetching subtitles. |
get_user_dynamics | user_id_or_username (required), cursor, limit, dynamic_type | List a Bilibili user's dynamics (feed posts), paged by cursor. |
get_user_articles | user_id_or_username (required), page, limit | List a Bilibili user's articles, paged. |
get_article_content | article_id (required; numeric or cv-prefixed) | Get the full content of a Bilibili article. |
get_user_followings | user_id_or_username (required), page, limit | List accounts a Bilibili user follows, paged. |
get_content_comments | content_type (required), content_id (required), cursor, limit, sort | List comments on a Bilibili video, dynamic, or article. |
get_content_comment_replies | content_type (required), content_id (required), root_rpid (required), page, limit | List replies under one root comment on Bilibili content. |
content_type accepts video, article, dynamic, audio,
album, course, or a numeric Bilibili reply type as a string.
Development
npm install
npm run build # tsc -> dist/
npm test # node test runner over test/*.test.ts, fake fetch only, no network
npm run dev # run the CLI from source via tsx
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
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