Bilibili API Development

Using public APIs offered by bilibili.com, a famous video website in China, to dynamically gain and analyze data of videos and users. In the index page, you can input an AV number for a video or a user ID for the detailed information of that video or user.

Abstract

This project consists of two parts:

1. Offer GUI to users to search for information of a specific video or an account. More features are still being added. The GUI is currently a RESTful web application built with Node.js. I intend to build an iOS app to extend this project.
2. Store static information of over 14 million videos obtained in late August 2017 into my database. As a practice of learning database, analyze how MySQL stores and modify them upon changing.

Getting Started

To run this website on your localhost:

Prerequisites

• Node.js.

Installing

First, install all dependencies using npm command.

npm install

Then, to start the server, run

node biliInfo.js

Now, the server is listening on localhost:3002.

Develop

For developers, it might be easier to test by running the website using nodemon. If you haven't installed it, run

npm install -g nodemon

Then, to start the server, run

nodemon biliInfo.js -e js,html,css

The server will restart automatically if any JavaScript, HTML, or CSS has changed.

Preview

Index page

Video information page

License

MIT