Live rooms

bilibili Live is a separate surface with its own ids. The live command both looks up a single room and browses the directory.

A single room

bili live 5440
bili live https://live.bilibili.com/5440

The record carries the room's title, the streamer, the area and parent area, the online count, the live status (whether it is broadcasting right now), and the cover. Ask for JSON to get everything:

bili live 5440 -o json

Browsing by area

With --browse instead of a room id, live reads the directory. --area picks the parent area, and the rows are the rooms that are live right now:

bili live --browse --area 1        # rooms in a parent area
bili live --browse --area 1 -n 20  # cap the count

--browse is required. Called with neither a room id nor --browse nor --uid, live says so rather than guessing which one you meant.

Each row is a room you can then open directly with bili live <room>.