Dailymotion Video Downloader

Download Dailymotion videos in HD

Dailymotion hosts a deep catalogue you won't find on YouTube, European news archives, sports highlights, music sessions and shows that never made it to other platforms. Its own apps offer offline viewing only inside the app, behind a subscription. This tool downloads any public Dailymotion video as a standard HD MP4 you keep: paste the link, pick a resolution, done.

How it works

1. Copy the video URL, full dailymotion.com/video/… links and short dai.ly links both work.
2. Paste it above and press Download. Available resolutions appear with real file sizes.
3. Pick MP4 for video up to 1080p, or MP3 to extract the audio at up to 320kbps.

What people use it for

• Archived TV and news segments. Dailymotion is the home of a lot of European broadcast archive material.
• Music sessions and concerts, many only exist there; the MP3 conversion workflow applies the same way.
• Sports highlights, saved before rights takedowns rotate them out.
• Your own uploads, creators recovering their masters, same story as on every platform.

Limits

Password-protected and private videos can't be fetched, and DRM-protected premium content (some broadcaster channels) is off-limits by design, this tool handles the standard public catalogue. Geo-restricted videos may fail if they're blocked in our server's region; the pattern is explained in why downloads fail.

Which resolution will you actually get?

Dailymotion's encoding ladder is coarser than YouTube's, and the options you see come from the source upload rather than from us. Recent uploads from partner channels usually offer 720p or 1080p. A lot of the archive material Dailymotion is valuable for, older broadcast segments, early-2010s music sessions, was uploaded at 480p or lower and simply has no HD version to fetch, even when the player's quality menu makes it look like there is one. The list above always shows what genuinely exists for that video, with real file sizes, so you are never waiting on a resolution that was never encoded.

If a Dailymotion link won't load

• Use the video link, not a playlist link. A URL containing /playlist/ points at a collection; open the individual video first and copy that address.
• Embedded player URLs (dailymotion.com/embed/video/…) work, but the plain /video/… form is more reliable.
• Geo-restricted titles. A lot of European broadcast content is licensed by territory. If it is blocked in our servers' region the fetch fails even though the page loads fine for you at home.

Download only content you own, have permission for, or that is freely licensed, see the legality guide. This educational tool is not affiliated with Dailymotion.