Dailymotion Scraper: Videos, Channels, Playlists & Search

Search Dailymotion videos by keyword and get full video details, channel profiles and playlists as clean rows, for $1.50 per 1,000 videos. Sort search by newest or most viewed, limit it to today, this week, this month or this year, and pull views, likes, tags, category, duration and upload time for any video link. Channels come with followers, video count and their 100 newest videos with view counts. No login, no Dailymotion API key.

{
  "searchKeywords": ["football highlights"],
  "searchSort": "newest",
  "searchDateRange": "week",
  "channelUrls": ["https://www.dailymotion.com/wired"]
}

Input	Rows
Search keyword	Up to 100 videos: title, link, duration, upload time, thumbnail, live flag, channel (no view counts)
Video link	One video with views, likes, tags, category, description, duration and channel
Channel link	One channel row (followers, video count, description, avatar, 5 newest videos) plus up to 100 newest videos with views and likes
Playlist link	One playlist row (name, owner, video count) plus its first 20 videos with views and likes

Why Use This Scraper?

• Views and likes for whole channels. One channel link returns its 100 newest videos with view counts, likes, tags and categories, at the bulk price.
• Search with real filters. Newest first or most viewed, and an upload window of a day, week, month or year.
• Less than half the usual price. $0.0015 per video from search, channels and playlists; the other Dailymotion scraper on the Store charges $0.004 to $0.0048.
• Clean rows. Counts are numbers, dates are ISO 8601, descriptions are plain text with the HTML removed, and every row has a type.

Use Cases

• Media monitoring: follow what publishers and news channels uploaded this week and how it performs.
• Competitor and channel benchmarking: followers, upload rate and views per video across a list of channels.
• Sports and entertainment research: find the newest highlight clips for a match, team or show.
• Content discovery for editors and agencies: collect videos on a topic with their channels and tags.
• Dataset building: titles, tags, categories and durations for video classification or trend analysis.

How It Works

1. Every link is sorted into video, channel or playlist, whichever field it was put in.
2. Up to four lookups run at once; each takes about 40 seconds. A search answers up to 100 videos in one lookup.
3. A channel link makes two lookups: the profile and the list of newest videos.
4. Every row is charged as it is delivered, and the run stops cleanly at your row limit or spending limit.

Input Configuration

Field	Type	Description
searchKeywords	array	Keywords to search videos for.
searchSort	string	relevance (default), newest or most_viewed.
searchDateRange	string	Empty for any time, or today, week, month, year.
maxResultsPerKeyword	integer	5 to 100. Default 50.
videoUrls	array	dailymotion.com/video/… or dai.ly/… links, or bare ids such as x8pkoru.
channelUrls	array	Channel pages such as https://www.dailymotion.com/wired, or just wired.
maxVideosPerChannel	integer	Newest videos per channel, 5 to 100; 0 returns the profile only. Default 100.
playlistUrls	array	dailymotion.com/playlist/… links.
maxItems	integer	Cap on all rows. Default 5,000; free-plan runs return up to 100.

Example input

The most viewed cooking videos of the month:

{
  "searchKeywords": ["cooking", "recipe"],
  "searchSort": "most_viewed",
  "searchDateRange": "month",
  "maxResultsPerKeyword": 100
}

Full details for two videos, one channel's profile and newest 50 videos, and a playlist:

{
  "videoUrls": ["https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8pkoru", "https://dai.ly/x8rr8v0"],
  "channelUrls": ["https://www.dailymotion.com/wired"],
  "maxVideosPerChannel": 50,
  "playlistUrls": ["https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x6v701"]
}

Output Samples

A video looked up by link (channel and playlist videos have the same fields, plus position):

{
  "type": "video",
  "source": "video",
  "videoId": "x8rr8v0",
  "url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8rr8v0",
  "title": "This Guy Runs the World's Fastest Backward Mile",
  "description": "Ever tried running backwards? Meet Aaron Yoder, one of the world's fastest backward runners…",
  "durationSec": 537,
  "views": 85660,
  "likes": 10,
  "category": "TECH",
  "tags": ["backwards runner", "wired", "obsessed", "wired obsessed"],
  "isLive": false,
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://s1.dmcdn.net/v/Vd82S1fVNF_8aXAQ_/x720",
  "uploadedAt": "2024-01-24T17:17:04.000Z",
  "channelId": "x1audmk",
  "channelName": "WIRED",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.dailymotion.com/wired"
}

A search result:

{
  "type": "video",
  "source": "search",
  "videoId": "xbrb642",
  "url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbrb642",
  "title": "The Best Soccer Goals, Skills and Crazy Plays From",
  "durationSec": 10,
  "views": null,
  "likes": null,
  "isLive": false,
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://s1.dmcdn.net/v/gOFgo1gtqlwzljhAl/x240",
  "uploadedAt": "2026-10-26T12:47:28.000Z",
  "channelName": "Socceroom",
  "channelUrl": "https://www.dailymotion.com/suraj_pfj78",
  "position": 1,
  "searchKeyword": "football highlights",
  "searchSort": "newest",
  "searchDateRange": "week"
}

A channel:

{
  "type": "channel",
  "channelId": "x1audmk",
  "username": "wired",
  "name": "WIRED",
  "url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/wired",
  "followers": 21519,
  "videoCount": 3151,
  "avatarUrl": "https://s1.dmcdn.net/u/4i8vy1VJHFo_EHjTN/240x240",
  "recentVideos": [
    { "videoId": "xbqrnqq", "title": "Law Professor Talks Cornell 7, Doxing of Jane Doe & ‘The Burnerverse’", "views": 9, "durationSec": 2437, "uploadedAt": "2026-10-23T16:37:25.000Z" }
  ]
}

A playlist:

{
  "type": "playlist",
  "playlistId": "x6v701",
  "url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x6v701",
  "name": "Obsessed",
  "videoCount": 18,
  "videosReturned": 18,
  "channelName": "WIRED",
  "createdAt": "2020-08-31T15:06:09.000Z"
}

Key Output Fields

Field	Meaning
type	video, channel or playlist
source	Where a video row came from: search, video, channel or playlist
views, likes	View and like counts; null on search rows, which the source answers without them
uploadedAt	Upload time, ISO 8601 UTC
durationSec	Length in seconds
position	Place in the search results, channel list or playlist
followers, videoCount	Channel audience and number of videos
videosReturned	How many of a playlist's videos came back as rows (at most 20)

FAQ

Why do search results have no view counts? Dailymotion search answers titles, links, durations and channels only. Put the video links in videoUrls, or the channel in channelUrls, to get views and likes.

How many videos can I get per keyword or channel? Up to 100 per keyword and 100 per channel (the newest ones). There are no further pages, so for more search results add related keywords, and for older channel videos use the channel's playlists.

Does "most viewed" sort by all-time views? It uses Dailymotion's own most-viewed order. Combine it with searchDateRange for the most viewed videos of a period.

How many videos does a playlist return? The first 20. videoCount on the playlist row tells you how many it has in total.

Can I get comments? No. Dailymotion has comments switched off, and every comment lookup we tried came back empty, so this actor does not offer them.

Can I download the video files? No. This actor returns data, not video files.

Do I need a Dailymotion account or API key? No.

Pricing

Event	When	Price
Actor start	Once per run (per GB of memory, 256 MB default)	$0.005
Video	Each video from a search, a channel's video list or a playlist	$0.0015
Video detail	Each video looked up by its own link	$0.0075
Channel	Each channel profile	$0.0075
Playlist	Each playlist row (its videos are billed as Video)	$0.006

Example: the 100 newest videos of 10 channels with their profiles cost 1,000 × $0.0015 + 10 × $0.0075 + $0.005 = $1.58.

Support

Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab and include the run link.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This actor reads public Dailymotion data. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Dailymotion. You are responsible for using the data in line with Dailymotion's terms and the laws that apply to you. Video titles, descriptions and thumbnails belong to their owners.

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