The invention discloses a self-walking drum shearer capable of drilling bidirectionally, belongs to the technical field of design and application of shearers, and provides a shearer which has the advantages of easiness in butting a drill rod, high drilling power of a drill bit and capability of drilling bidirectionally in a tunnel. The self-walking drum shearer comprises a frame assembly, a walking device, an electric control assembly, a hydraulic assembly, an electric cutting head, a ventilation device, a spiral transmission device, a propelling arm device and a propelling arm butting and moving device, wherein the walking device comprises a hydraulic motor and a caterpillar; the frame assembly is connected with a frame support frame on the walking device through a connecting and fixing device; the electric control assembly, the hydraulic assembly and an armor disk are connected with the frame assembly through pin shafts respectively; the electric cutting head comprises a drum, crab claw scraping plates, a scrapper, a shearer motor, speed reducers and spiral conveyer motors; two crab claw scraping plates, two speed reducers and two spiral conveyer motors are positioned on both sides of the scrapper in the drum. The self-walking drum shearer is mainly applied to coal mines.