Dailymotion Scraper

Get Dailymotion videos as structured data: search results, whole channels, playlists or individual video URLs. Each row has the title, description, duration, views, likes, comments, upload date, tags, category, thumbnail, embed URL and uploader. Channels can also return a profile row with follower and total-view counts.

The Actor reads Dailymotion's public Data API, the same one the Dailymotion website uses for public content. No browser, no proxies, no account, which keeps runs fast and cheap.

What you get

{
  "id": "x8ufvpk",
  "url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ufvpk",
  "title": "Tesla Model 3 Highland review: still the EV to beat?",
  "description": "We spent a week with the updated Model 3...",
  "durationSeconds": 742,
  "views": 128344,
  "likes": 912,
  "comments": 37,
  "createdAt": "2026-03-04T09:12:41+00:00",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-01T18:02:11+00:00",
  "ownerId": "x1abc2d",
  "ownerUsername": "autoexpress",
  "ownerName": "Auto Express",
  "ownerUrl": "https://www.dailymotion.com/autoexpress",
  "category": "Cars",
  "categorySlug": "cars",
  "tags": ["tesla", "model 3", "ev review"],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "GB",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://s2.dmcdn.net/v/XXXXX/x720",
  "embedUrl": "https://geo.dailymotion.com/player.html?video=x8ufvpk",
  "embeddable": true,
  "aspectRatio": 1.77778,
  "explicit": false,
  "isLive": null,
  "source": "search",
  "sourceValue": "electric cars review",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T19:04:11+00:00"
}

Channel profile rows (when includeChannelProfiles is on) look like:

{"type": "profile", "id": "x12f2o", "username": "france24", "name": "FRANCE 24", "url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/france24", "followers": 8696, "videos": 50652, "views": 22695520, "country": "FR", "createdAt": "2006-11-02T11:34:33+00:00", "description": "...", "avatarUrl": "...", "verified": true, "partner": true, "scrapedAt": "..."}

Input

Field	Type	Notes
searchQueries	array	Keywords. Sorted by sortBy.
channels	array	Usernames or channel URLs. Newest videos first.
playlists	array	Playlist IDs or URLs.
videoUrls	array	Video URLs or IDs to look up one by one.
sortBy	select	relevance, recent, visited, visited-today, visited-week, visited-month, trending.
languages	array	Two-letter codes, e.g. en, fr.
country	string	Two-letter uploader country, e.g. FR.
minDurationSeconds / maxDurationSeconds	integer	Duration filters.
includeChannelProfiles	boolean	Add one profile row per channel (default on).
maxVideosPerSource	integer	Per query/channel/playlist cap (default 100).
maxVideos	integer	Cap for the whole run.

Example:

{
  "searchQueries": ["ligue 1 highlights"],
  "channels": ["https://www.dailymotion.com/france24"],
  "sortBy": "recent",
  "languages": ["fr"],
  "maxVideosPerSource": 200
}

Pricing

Pay per event:

• $0.0015 per video row ($1.50 per 1,000 videos)
• $0.002 per channel profile row

plus Apify's standard Actor start fee. Inputs that fail (private video, wrong username) cost nothing and are listed in the ERRORS record of the key-value store. Set Maximum total charge on the run to cap spend; the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Example: 10 search queries × 100 videos = 1,000 rows ≈ $1.50.

Use cases

• Media monitoring: track what channels (news outlets, sports leagues, brands) publish and how it performs.
• Content research: find the most viewed videos on a topic this week (sortBy: visited-week).
• Rights and brand protection: search for your titles or brand names and export matching uploads.
• Dataset building: titles, descriptions, tags and view counts for ML or trend analysis.
• AI agents: array inputs and flat output; call it through the Apify MCP server.

Notes and limits

• Only public content. Private, password-protected or geo-blocked videos are skipped (listed in ERRORS).
• Dailymotion caps search results at 10,000 per query and 100 per page; the Actor pages automatically.
• Requests are rate-limited (4 per second max, with retries and back-off) to stay well within Dailymotion's public API limits.
• This Actor does not download video files and does not collect data about viewers or commenters.

FAQ

Can I get comments or transcripts? Not with this Actor; it is designed for metadata and stats at scale.

Why does a channel return fewer videos than its count? Some uploads are unlisted or restricted by region; the API returns only publicly listed videos.

Something is off? Use the Issues tab on the Actor page. Include the input you used.