Dailymotion Scraper — Videos, Views & Engagement

One of the largest video platforms outside the United States in rows: title and description, uploader and channel, publish date, duration, views, likes and comments, language and country.

What does the Dailymotion Scraper do?

This Actor collects videos from Dailymotion, the largest video platform outside the United States and a genuinely different audience from YouTube — strongest in France, Turkey, Italy and across Francophone Africa, with news and sport far more prominent than creator vlogs.

You pick a listing — trending, most recent, most viewed — optionally add a search term or a channel, and get one row per video with the full engagement set alongside the language and country the platform assigns to it. Those last two are the reason to use Dailymotion data rather than a US-centric platform for market work: they let you slice a category by market without inferring anything.

Who is it for?

• Social media analysts covering European, Turkish and Francophone markets.
• Media monitoring teams tracking news and sport video by country.
• Brand and agency teams finding creators outside the YouTube ecosystem.
• Market researchers measuring what circulates in non-English-speaking markets.
• Content platforms benchmarking engagement against a mature competitor.
• Academics studying video engagement on a non-US platform.

Use cases

• Track what trends in a specific country using the country field.
• Compare views against likes and comments to find genuinely engaging videos.
• Find high-performing uploaders in a channel for outreach.
• Measure how quickly a topic accumulates views after publishing.
• Build a corpus of titles and descriptions in a target language.
• Watch a search term across days to see a story break and decay.
• Feed an AI agent trending video data for market questions.

Why use this Dailymotion Scraper?

• The full engagement set — views, likes and comments, not just a view count.
• Language and country on every row, so market analysis needs no inference.
• Search, channel and sort order all available from one input.
• Publish dates converted to ISO from unix timestamps.
• Up to 100 videos per request, so large exports finish in seconds.
• Keyless, login-free and proxy-free.

What data can you extract?

One row per video. Anything the source left blank comes back as null.

Field	Description
videoId	Dailymotion video ID
url	Link to the video
title	Video title
description	Video description
uploader	Uploader display name
uploaderId	Uploader ID
channel	Dailymotion channel, e.g. News, Sport
publishedAt	Publish date as ISO
durationSec	Duration in seconds
views	Total views
likes	Total likes
comments	Comment count
language	Language code
country	Country code
thumbnail	Thumbnail image
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of collection

Sample output

{
  "videoId": "xazva9m",
  "url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xazva9m",
  "title": "İsmail Kartal: Takımımız bugün güzel bir reaksiyon verdi",
  "description": null,
  "uploader": "Fanatik",
  "uploaderId": "x2rgwav",
  "channel": "Haber ve Politika",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-22T22:07:28.000Z",
  "durationSec": 258,
  "views": 21735,
  "likes": 0,
  "comments": 0,
  "language": "tr",
  "country": "TR",
  "thumbnail": "https://s1.dmcdn.net/v/deR2w1gYYTeh3RA9L/x360",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T11:34:44.023Z"
}

How to use the Dailymotion Scraper

Option A — a trending snapshot

Leave Sort order on Trending, set Maximum results and run.

Option B — a topic or a channel

Add a Search term such as football or elections, or set Channel to news, sport, music or videogames.

Option C — a trend series

Schedule a daily run on the same sort and diff by videoId to see what entered and left the listing.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
sort	select	trending	Trending, most recent, most viewed, most relevant, oldest
searchTerm	string	(empty)	Optional keyword
channel	string	(empty)	Optional Dailymotion channel
maxResults	integer	1000	Stop after this many videos (max 50,000)
proxyConfiguration	object	(off)	Optional; the API answers without one

Tips for best results

• Filter on country rather than assuming. Dailymotion's audience is spread very unevenly, and a "trending" listing is dominated by whichever market is most active at that hour.
• Compare likes and comments against views, not in isolation — a video with a million views and forty likes is a very different object from one with ten thousand views and four hundred.
• likes: 0 is a real value, not missing data. Plenty of news clips accumulate views without any reaction at all.
• Descriptions are optional for uploaders and come back on roughly half of videos; that is the platform, not a gap in collection.
• uploaderId is the stable creator key; display names change, the id does not.

Integrations

Connect the dataset to Make, Zapier, Airbyte, Google Sheets, Slack, GitHub or any HTTP endpoint through Apify integrations, or schedule a run and push results into a warehouse with a webhook.

API usage

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("logiover/dailymotion-video-scraper").call(run_input={
    "sort": "trending",
    "channel": "news",
    "maxResults": 2000,
})
rows = list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())
by_country = {}
for r in rows:
    by_country[r["country"]] = by_country.get(r["country"], 0) + 1
print(sorted(by_country.items(), key=lambda x: -x[1])[:5])

Use with AI agents (MCP)

The Actor is callable from the Apify MCP server, so an assistant can pull Dailymotion videos directly and answer questions about trends, creators and engagement.

FAQ

Do I need a Dailymotion account or API key?

No. This Actor uses Dailymotion's public API, which needs no key for the public listings it reads.

How many videos can one run return?

Up to 50,000, a hundred per request. The API reports when a listing is exhausted and the run stops there rather than looping.

What channels are available?

Dailymotion's own channel taxonomy — news, sport, music, videogames, tv, fun, auto and others. Leave it empty to read across all of them.

Why are descriptions often empty?

Because uploaders leave them blank. Roughly half of videos carry one; the rest genuinely have none.

Are likes and comments always accurate?

They are the counts the platform reports at the moment of collection. Both move after publication, so a scrapedAt timestamp is included on every row to anchor the reading.

Can I scrape a specific creator's uploads?

Not directly by creator in this Actor — it reads listings and search. Every row carries uploaderId, so a creator found here can be tracked across scheduled runs.

Is the data global or regional?

Global, but heavily weighted towards France, Turkey, Italy and Francophone markets, which is where Dailymotion is strongest. The country column lets you separate them.

Can I export to CSV or Excel?

Yes — every run's dataset exports to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or JSONL.

How fresh is the data?

Each run reads the API live, so view and engagement counts are as current as Dailymotion's own.

Why did my run return fewer videos than requested?

Because the listing ran out. A narrow search term combined with a channel filter can exhaust after a few hundred results; the Actor logs that and stops cleanly.

Is it legal to scrape Dailymotion?

This Actor reads Dailymotion's public API — no accounts, no logins, no private content. Video titles, view counts and public uploader names are information published for public view, and no video files are downloaded. Uploader names are public identities but may still be personal data, so you remain responsible for how you use the results, including under the GDPR, and for respecting the platform's terms in your own jurisdiction.

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