dailymotionx

Download Dailymotion videos from episode pages or direct links — via CLI, Python API, or a local browser UI.

Designed for sites like myanime.live that embed Dailymotion players, but works with any page that contains a Dailymotion player URL, as well as direct dailymotion.com and dai.ly links.

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Features

• 🌐 Browser UI — launch a beautiful local web app (dailymotion ui), no terminal intimidation
• ⌨️ Interactive CLI — guided prompts for URL and resolution using questionary + rich
• 🔗 Episode page support — paste a myanime.live (or similar) URL and the Dailymotion embed is extracted automatically
• 📺 All Dailymotion URL formats — embed, player, watch, short link
• 🎞️ Merged MP4 output — video + audio merged to a single .mp4 via ffmpeg
• 📊 Real-time progress — animated progress bar in the browser UI; rich progress in CLI
• 🔔 yt-dlp update alerts — notifies you if a newer yt-dlp is on PyPI (never auto-updates silently)
• 🩺 Doctor command — check all dependencies at a glance
• 🖥️ Cross-platform — Windows, macOS, Linux; browser impersonation via curl-cffi
• 🐍 Python API — import and use as a library in your own scripts

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Requirements

Requirement	Notes
Python ≥ 3.10
ffmpeg	Must be on PATH — used for audio/video merge
yt-dlp	Installed automatically as a dependency

Installing ffmpeg

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y ffmpeg

macOS

brew install ffmpeg

Windows

winget install Gyan.FFmpeg

Or download from ffmpeg.org.

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Installation

pip install dailymotionx

The dailymotion command will be available immediately after install.

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Quick Start

Browser UI (recommended for beginners)

dailymotion ui

Opens a local web page automatically. Paste your URL, pick a resolution, click Download. That's it.

Interactive CLI

dailymotion

The CLI will prompt you for the URL and resolution.

One-liner

dailymotion "https://myanime.live/some-episode-page/" --resolution 720

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CLI Reference

dailymotion download

dailymotion [download] [URL] [OPTIONS]

The download subcommand is the default — you can omit it entirely.

Option	Default	Description
URL	(interactive prompt)	Episode page URL or direct Dailymotion URL
-r, --resolution	720	Target resolution: 360, 480, 720, 1080, best
-o, --output-dir	~/Downloads	Directory to save the MP4
-c, --concurrency	12	Number of parallel fragment downloads
--timeout	35	HTTP timeout in seconds
--non-interactive	False	Fail instead of prompting for missing inputs

Examples:

# Interactive (prompts for URL and resolution)
dailymotion

# Episode page URL
dailymotion "https://myanime.live/2026/04/19/battle-through-the-heavens-season-5-episode-195-english-sub/"

# Direct Dailymotion link
dailymotion "https://www.dailymotion.com/video/k4YiCNzUwtjazkFAmg2" -r 1080

# Save to specific folder, non-interactive
dailymotion "https://dai.ly/k4YiCNzUwtjazkFAmg2" -r best -o ~/Videos --non-interactive

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dailymotion ui

dailymotion ui [--port PORT] [--no-browser]

Starts a local HTTP server and opens the browser UI automatically.

Option	Default	Description
--port	0 (auto)	Port to listen on
--no-browser	False	Don't open the browser automatically

The UI features:

• Real-time animated progress bar with phase indicators (Resolving → Video → Audio → Merging → Done)
• Live speed and ETA display
• Collapsible detailed log
• yt-dlp update banner if a newer version is on PyPI
• ffmpeg missing warning with install instructions

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dailymotion doctor

dailymotion doctor [--upgrade-ytdlp]

Checks all runtime dependencies and prints their status:

╭────────────── Doctor ──────────────╮
│ Dependency check results           │
╰────────────────────────────────────╯
  - yt-dlp:     OK (available)
  - rich:       OK (available)
  - questionary:OK (available)
  - curl-cffi:  OK (available)
  - ffmpeg:     OK (available)

yt-dlp is up to date.

Option	Description
--upgrade-ytdlp	Run pip install --upgrade yt-dlp during this check

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yt-dlp update notifications

dailymotionx checks PyPI for a newer version of yt-dlp at startup and prints a one-line notice if one is found. It never installs updates silently.

yt-dlp update available (2026.3.17 → 2026.6.1). Run: pip install --upgrade yt-dlp

Use dailymotion doctor --upgrade-ytdlp when you're ready to upgrade.

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Supported URL Formats

Format	Example
myanime.live episode page	https://myanime.live/2026/.../episode-name/
Any page with embedded Dailymotion	https://example.com/episode
Dailymotion watch link	https://www.dailymotion.com/video/k4Yi...
Dailymotion embed	https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/k4Yi...
Dailymotion geo player	https://geo.dailymotion.com/player.html?video=k4Yi...
Short link	https://dai.ly/k4Yi...

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Python API

from pathlib import Path
from dailymotionx import DownloadRequest, download_episode

request = DownloadRequest(
    episode_url="https://myanime.live/2026/04/19/battle-through-the-heavens-s5-ep195-english-sub/",
    resolution="720",
    output_dir=Path.home() / "Downloads",
    concurrency=12,
    timeout_seconds=35,
)

result = download_episode(request)
print(f"Saved to: {result.output_file}")

Resolve only (no download)

from dailymotionx import resolve_episode_page, resolve_input_url

# From an episode page
dm_url = resolve_episode_page("https://myanime.live/some-episode/")
print(dm_url)  # https://geo.dailymotion.com/player.html?video=...

# From any supported URL (episode page or direct DM link)
dm_url = resolve_input_url("https://www.dailymotion.com/video/abc123")
print(dm_url)  # https://geo.dailymotion.com/player.html?video=abc123

Using progress hooks

def my_hook(d: dict) -> None:
    if d["status"] == "downloading":
        pct = d.get("downloaded_bytes", 0) / (d.get("total_bytes") or 1) * 100
        print(f"\r{pct:.1f}%", end="", flush=True)

result = download_episode(request, progress_hooks=[my_hook])

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Output Files

Files are saved as:

{title} [{video_id}].mp4

Filenames are sanitised for cross-platform compatibility (restrictfilenames, windowsfilenames).

Output directory priority:

1. --output-dir / output_dir argument
2. ~/Downloads (if writable)
3. Current working directory

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Dependency Notes

Package	Role
yt-dlp	Video extraction and download engine
curl-cffi	Browser-impersonating HTTP client (cross-platform TLS fingerprinting)
rich	Beautiful terminal output
questionary	Interactive CLI prompts
ffmpeg (system)	Audio/video stream merging (must be installed separately)

curl-cffi enables browser TLS impersonation on all platforms — no manual setup needed beyond pip install dailymotionx.

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Development

git clone https://github.com/shyamdarshanam/embed-downloader
cd embed-downloader
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Run tests:

pytest

Lint:

ruff check src/

Type check:

mypy src/dailymotionx/

Build package:

python -m build
twine check dist/*

Publish to PyPI:

twine upload dist/*

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License

MIT — see LICENSE.