bilibili-get

youtube-dl like command-line tool resolving & downloading media files from bilibili.

Features

• Video quality selection
• Auto-merging video segments
• Premium account bangumi (with -C option)

WARNING using proxy with cookie may get your account banned since March 2019.

bilibili-get supports downloading video from following type of urls:

URL	Playlist	Example
User-uploaded Video		https://www.bilibili.com/video/av18182135
User-uploaded Video (multipart)	✓	https://www.bilibili.com/video/av1041170
User-uploaded Video (multipart)		https://www.bilibili.com/video/av1041170/index_5.html
Movie Bangumi		https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ss12364/
TV Bangumi (A)	✓	https://bangumi.bilibili.com/anime/5796
Bangumi Episode (A)		https://bangumi.bilibili.com/anime/5786/play#100367
TV Bangumi (B)	✓	https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ss5796
Bangumi Episode (B1)		https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ep100611
Bangumi Episode (B2)		https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ss21769#173345
TV Bangumi (C)	✓	https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/media/md8892/
URL Redirect		https://acg.tv/av106

Installation

Install via NPM:

npm install -g bilibili-get

bilibili-get uses aria2 and ffmpeg for downloading and video segment merging. They can be easily installed with a package manager.

For Homebrew users:

brew install ffmpeg aria2

For Linux/Windows users, make sure to have aria2 > 1.23.0 installed.

Usage

bilibili-get https://www.bilibili.com/video/av18182135

bilibili-get exposes similar interface with youtube-dl.

Usage: bilibili-get [options] <url>


Options:

  -o, --output [pattern]              set output pattern (default: av%(aid)s %(title)s%(#index&&"\(")s%(index)s%(#index&&"\)")s%(#index_title&&" ")s%(index_title)s.%(ext)s)
  -f, --output-format [format]        set merged output format [flv/mkv/mp4]
  -q, --quality [value]               set video quality (default: 0)
  -l, --list-formats                  list available format/quality for video(s)
  -x, --http-proxy [server]           set HTTP proxy for metadata extractor
  -C, --cookie [cookieString]         set cookie string
  -O, --download-options [key=value]  set extra aria2c command-line options (default: )
  -d, --dry-run                       run the program without any download
  -s, --silent                        suppress video quality output
  -V, --version                       output the version number
  -h, --help                          output usage information

The -o flag accepts an output template string in python string formatting method. Besides typical string formatting options, bilibili-get supports JavaScript expressions replacement expressed by syntax like %(#1+1)d.

And some of the variables are:

• aid - the XXXXXX in avXXXXXX
• cid - media resource id
• ext - extension name of the output file (can be set by -f option)
• title - title of video or bangumi
• index - part# of a part in video or episode# of an episode in bangumi
• index_title - a part name or bangumi episode title
• episode_id - id of a bangumi episode
• bangumi_id - id of a bangumi
• quality - quality id of resolved video
• format - format name corresponding to the video quality

Examples

List video quality/format

bilibili-get https://www.bilibili.com/video/av18182135 -l

Quality

bilibili-get https://www.bilibili.com/video/av18182135 -q 64  # 720P
bilibili-get https://www.bilibili.com/video/av18182135 -q 80  # 1080P
bilibili-get https://www.bilibili.com/video/av18182135 -q 112 # 1080P 4Kbps

Merge parts to MKV file

bilibili-get https://www.bilibili.com/video/av18182135 -f mkv

Bangumi

bilibili-get -o 'av%(aid)s - %(title)s/%(index)s%(#index_title&&" - ")s%(index_title)s.%(ext)s' -f mkv https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ss1512

Cookie of premium account

bilibili-get -C 'DedeUserID=XXXXXX; DedeUserID__ckMd5=b199851b45c91f32; sid=XXXXXXXX; SESSDATA=cf33becc%2C1241112410%2A332c1323;' -q 112 -f mkv https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ss1512

Multiple connection download

bilibili-get https://www.bilibili.com/video/av18182135 -O split=5 -O max-connection-per-server=5

Download speed limit

bilibili-get https://www.bilibili.com/video/av18182135 -O max-download-limit=300K

License

(The MIT License)