Dailymotion Scraper

Dailymotion videos by keyword, channel, playlist or category, with views, duration, tags, category, language and channel details, as clean JSON.

Dailymotion is one of the largest video platforms outside YouTube, home to news broadcasters, sports networks, publishers and millions of creators. This Actor scrapes Dailymotion videos by keyword, channel, playlist or category: title, description, views, recent views, likes, duration, tags, category, language, upload date and channel followers. Filter by date, length, language and country. Search by keyword, or paste a video, channel, playlist, category or search page. Every video comes back with its total views and its views over the last day, week and month, upload and update dates, the embed player link, and the channel that posted it with its follower count and verified badge. There is no login, no API key, and no proxy to configure. Built for media monitoring, publisher and competitor tracking, content research, and anyone who needs video data from beyond YouTube.

⚡ Quick start

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/euronews-en" }],
  "searchTerms": ["champions league highlights"],
  "maxItems": 5
}

🧩 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	array	no	—	dailymotion.com pages: a video (/video/x9wttba), a channel (/euronews-en), a playlist (/playlist/x3rkac), a category (/channel/sport) or a search page (/search/football/videos). Short dai.ly links work too.
searchTerms	array	no	—	Keywords to search Dailymotion videos for, one per line, for example champions league highlights.
sortBy	string	no	relevance	Order of search results: relevance, recent, visited (most viewed), visited-month, visited-week or trending.
dateFrom	string	no	—	Only videos uploaded on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
dateTo	string	no	—	Only videos uploaded on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
minDuration	integer	no	—	Only videos longer than this many minutes.
maxDuration	integer	no	—	Only videos shorter than this many minutes.
language	string	no	—	Only videos in one language, as a two-letter code such as en, fr or es.
country	string	no	—	Only videos from one country, as a two-letter code such as US, FR or GB.
maxItems	integer	no	—	Maximum number of videos per start URL or search term. The input form starts at 5; leave it empty for every video, up to 1,000 per search, channel or category.
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Proxy settings. Dailymotion's public video data needs no proxy.

Add URLs, search terms, or both. A channel page returns that channel's newest videos first, a category page returns what is trending in that category, and a playlist keeps its own order. sortBy applies to search terms and search pages. The date, duration, language and country filters apply to searches, channels and categories, so you can ask for "this channel's French videos longer than 10 minutes from last month"; playlists and single videos ignore them.

📤 Output

Each video is one dataset row. The channel that posted it is nested under owner, and every row records where it was found in source (and searchQuery for searches).

Fields

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Dailymotion video ID, such as xbm9612.
title	string	Video title.
description	string	Description as plain text, with line breaks kept.
descriptionHtml	string	Description as Dailymotion stores it, with its HTML line breaks and links.
url	string	The video's page on dailymotion.com.
embedUrl	string	The embeddable player for the video.
createdAt	string	When the video was uploaded (ISO 8601).
updatedAt	string	When the video was last updated (ISO 8601).
durationSeconds	number	Length in seconds.
isLive	boolean	Whether this is a live stream rather than an uploaded video.
views	number	Total views.
viewsLastDay	number	Views over the last 24 hours.
viewsLastWeek	number	Views over the last 7 days.
viewsLastMonth	number	Views over the last 30 days.
likes	number	Likes. Most Dailymotion videos show few or none.
thumbnailUrl	string	720p thumbnail image.
tags	array	Tags the uploader added.
category	string	Dailymotion category, such as News, Sports or Music.
categoryId	string	Category ID as used in category URLs, such as news or sport.
language	string	Video language (ISO 639-1), such as en.
country	string	Country the video is from (ISO 3166-1), such as GB.
explicit	boolean	Whether the video is flagged as explicit.
owner	object	The channel that posted it: id, username, screenname, url, followers and verified.
searchQuery	string	The search term or search page query that found the video. null for other sources.
source	string	The start URL, or the search page a search term stands for, that the video came from.
scrapedAt	string	When the video was scraped (ISO 8601).

💡 Use cases

• Media monitoring — track what broadcasters such as Euronews, AFP or beIN SPORTS publish, and how fast each video gathers views.
• Publisher and competitor tracking — follow channels' upload cadence, categories, languages and follower counts over time.
• Content research — find the most viewed or trending videos on a topic, in one language or country, within a date range.
• Trend analysis — compare last-day, last-week and last-month views to spot videos that are taking off.
• Video catalogs — build lists of embeddable videos with thumbnails, durations and tags for a site or app.

❓ FAQ

• Do I need a Dailymotion account or API key? No. The Actor reads the same public video data anyone can see without logging in.
• Do I need a proxy? No. It runs without one by default.
• How many videos can I get? Up to 1,000 per search, channel or category. That is the most Dailymotion serves for any one listing, however many videos match. To go further, split a search by date (dateFrom / dateTo), language or country, and run each slice as its own search.
• Why are likes mostly 0? Dailymotion barely surfaces likes any more, so most videos have few or none. views and the last-day, week and month view counts are the reliable popularity signals.
• Can I scrape private or unlisted videos? No. Only public videos are returned. A video URL that is private, removed or blocked in your region is skipped with a warning.
• Why does the most-recent sort return odd results for broad keywords? Dailymotion's newest-first search puts every fresh upload that mentions the keyword first, and broad terms attract a lot of low-quality uploads. Use relevance, visited or trending, or narrow with filters, for cleaner results.

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🖼 Image credit

Image credit: dailymotion.com