Dailymotion Scraper

Scrape public Dailymotion videos by keyword search, channel, or video URL with no login and no API key required. Extract titles, view counts, likes, comments, duration, channel details, thumbnails, tags, and publish dates as clean structured rows ready for export.

What it does

• Keyword search across public Dailymotion videos, sortable by relevance, most recent, most viewed, trending, oldest, or random.
• Channel videos from any channel by username, channel id, or channel link, returning that channel's uploads.
• Single video metadata from a video URL or id, including views, likes, comments, duration, tags, and channel info.
• Automatic pagination that walks page after page up to the result limit you set, deduplicating videos so you never get the same one twice.
• Clean normalized output with a stable schema, so every row has the same fields whether it came from search, a channel, or a single video.
• No account, no password, no API key required to run any mode.

Use cases

• Lead generation and creator discovery - find active channels and creators in a niche by searching keywords and ranking them by views.
• Market and content research - measure what topics, formats, and durations perform on a keyword across thousands of videos.
• Competitor and channel monitoring - track a channel's uploads, view counts, and engagement over time.
• Trend tracking - pull trending or most-recent videos for a topic to spot rising content early.
• Dataset building - assemble structured video datasets (views, likes, comments, tags, publish dates) for analytics or machine learning.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQueries	array	Keyword searches to run across public videos. Each query is paginated up to the result limit.
channels	array	Channels to pull videos from. Accepts a username, a channel id, or a channel link.
videoUrls	array	Specific video links or ids to fetch full metadata for.
maxResultsPerSource	integer	Cap on videos returned per search query or channel. Default 100. Search is capped at 1000 by the source.
searchSort	string	Sort order for search: relevance, recent, visited (most viewed), trending, random, or old.
concurrency	integer	How many sources to process in parallel. Default 5.
proxyConfig	object	Optional proxy. Not required, since the public endpoints work without one.

Provide at least one of searchQueries, channels, or videoUrls.

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["electronic music"],
  "channels": ["example-channel"],
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5auisp"],
  "maxResultsPerSource": 200,
  "searchSort": "relevance"
}

Output

Each video is one dataset row with a stable schema. Example:

{
  "type": "video",
  "id": "x5auisp",
  "url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5auisp",
  "channelName": "Acme Co",
  "channelUsername": "example-channel",
  "channelId": "x1wtdgr",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.dailymotion.com/example-channel",
  "viewCount": 109022,
  "likeCount": 240,
  "commentCount": 12,
  "durationSeconds": 65,
  "durationText": "1:05",
  "title": "An example video title",
  "description": "An example description.",
  "tags": ["example", "demo"],
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://example.com/thumbnail.jpg",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T12:00:00.000Z",
  "language": "en",
  "isExplicit": false,
  "isPrivate": false
}

Key fields:

• Identity: id, url, and channelName / channelUsername / channelId / channelUrl identify the video and its channel.
• Metrics: viewCount, likeCount, commentCount, and durationSeconds / durationText capture reach, engagement, and length at scrape time.
• Content: title, description, and tags describe the video. description and tags can be empty when the uploader left them blank.
• Metadata: publishedAt (ISO 8601), language, isExplicit, and isPrivate.

FAQ

Is it free? How is it priced? The actor runs on the standard Apify pricing model. You pay only for the platform usage and the results you receive. There is no separate subscription to any third party.

Do I need a login, account, or API key? No. The scraper reads only public video data and needs no Dailymotion account, password, or API key.

How many results can I get? You control it with maxResultsPerSource. Each search query or channel is paginated up to that cap, with results deduplicated by video id. Keyword search is capped at 1000 results per query at the source.

How fast is it? Multiple sources run in parallel (set with concurrency). A single search of a few hundred videos typically finishes in well under a minute. Larger jobs with many queries or channels scale with the number of sources and the per-source limit.

Can I get a single video's full details? Yes. Put the video link or id into videoUrls and you get one row with its full metadata.

Why are description or tags sometimes empty? Those values come straight from the uploader. When a creator does not add a description or tags, those fields are returned empty rather than guessed.