Users and feeds

A creator (mid) is the other big anchor on bilibili. Four commands cover the account and what hangs off it: user for the profile and catalogue, favorites and favorite for collections, and dynamics/dynamic for the feed.

All accept a bare mid, a space.bilibili.com/<mid> link, or (for the feed) a t.bilibili.com dynamic link.

A creator

bili user 2

The default view is the profile: name, sign, level, and the follower and video statistics. The same command pivots to other parts of the account with a flag:

bili user 2 --videos      # the creator's uploaded videos
bili user 2 --videos -o url
bili user 2 --dynamics    # their dynamics feed (shorthand for `dynamics`)

--videos paginates; combine it with -n to cap the count and --order to sort by newest or by plays where the endpoint allows.

Favorites

bilibili organizes saved videos into folders. List a creator's public folders, then open one:

bili favorites 2            # the folders (each has an `ml` id)
bili favorite ml123         # the videos inside one folder

favorites is the endpoint that refuses anonymous callers outright. It answers code: 0 with no payload at all, on an endpoint that always carries one when it answers, which is a refusal wearing a success code. bili names it and exits 4 rather than printing [], and a logged-in cookie is what changes it. Reading a single folder by its ml id used to be the way around that and is not any more: the folder read answers with the folder's own media_count and none of its contents, which is the same refusal counted out loud. Both work with a cookie.

Dynamics

The dynamics feed is a creator's stream of posts: videos, forwards, text, and images.

bili dynamics 2            # the whole feed for a creator
bili dynamic <dynamic-id>  # one post in full

dynamics works anonymously. A single dynamic detail is one of the few endpoints bilibili gates behind its anti-bot system for anonymous callers; when you hit that, bili tells you to pass a logged-in cookie:

export BILI_COOKIE='SESSDATA=...; bili_jct=...; DedeUserID=...'
bili dynamic <dynamic-id>

See configuration for how cookies are supplied and why config show only ever prints them back redacted.