Dailymotion Search API
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Discover Dailymotion videos for a search term, with duration, views, likes, comments, category, tags, live flag and channel. Limit uploads to today, this week, month or year with date_range; channels and playlists are not searched.
Price $1.39 per 1,000 requests ($0.001389 per call). Failed calls and empty results are not charged. Synchronous. For slow jobs add "mode": "async" to the body, take the job_id and poll.
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Please help me write a data collection script with the EveryInfra Dailymotion Search endpoint (dailymotion/search).
Endpoint contract:
- Request: POST https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social with the header Authorization: Bearer <API key>. Read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable and never hard-code it.
- In the request body, set platform to dailymotion and action to search, and put the parameters inside params.
- Required parameters:
- keyword: Specifies the search term for Dailymotion video discovery. The search action queries videos only and does not support searching for channels or playlists by keyword.
- Optional parameters:
- date_range: Filters video search results by relative upload window using today, week, month, or year. Accepts predefined intervals only rather than custom date bounds, with specific cutoff thresholds determined by platform filters. (allowed: month / today / week / year)
- sort: Sorts video search results by relevance, newest (upload date), or most_viewed. These values apply exclusively to search and do not reorder comments by posting time or helpfulness. (allowed: most_viewed / newest / relevance)
- upload_date: Serves as a compatibility alias for date_range, accepting today, week, month, or year to filter video upload windows rather than select video IDs. When both are supplied, upload_date overrides date_range. (allowed: month / today / week / year)
- limit: The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 100. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. (default: 10)
- Returns a list of records. Main fields of each record: id, url, title, description, duration_seconds, duration_sec, view_count, like_count, comment_count, category, tags, is_live; 17 fields in total, full list at https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social/catalog?platform=dailymotion.
- Example request body:
{
"platform": "dailymotion",
"action": "search",
"params": {
"keyword": "space documentary"
}
}
- Price: $1.39 per 1,000 requests; failed and empty results are not charged.
- For dozens or hundreds of targets, add "mode": "async" to the body: you get a job_id at once and poll GET https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/jobs/{job_id} for the result.
- On 422, fix the request using the suggested parameter names and allowed values in the error; on 429 or 503, wait for Retry-After and try again.
Before writing code, ask me which targets I need, how many, which fields, and what output format I want; then confirm the plan and the rough cost with me.Request parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Authorization | header | string | Yes | - | Bearer followed by your API key. Create it in the console; never put it in a URL or a code repository. |
platform | body | string | Yes | dailymotion | Platform identifier, fixed value. |
action | body | string | Yes | search | Capability identifier, fixed value. |
keyword | body.params | Not declared | Yes | - | Specifies the search term for Dailymotion video discovery. The search action queries videos only and does not support searching for channels or playlists by keyword; use channel or playlist actions with target URLs instead. |
date_range | body.params | enum | No | - | Filters video search results by relative upload window using today, week, month, or year. Accepts predefined intervals only rather than custom date bounds, with specific cutoff thresholds determined by platform filters. Use date_range independently without passing the compatibility parameter upload_date.Allowed valuesmonthtodayweekyear |
sort | body.params | enum | No | - | Sorts video search results by relevance, newest (upload date), or most_viewed. These values apply exclusively to search and do not reorder comments by posting time or helpfulness.Allowed valuesmost_viewednewestrelevance |
upload_date | body.params | enum | No | - | Serves as a compatibility alias for date_range, accepting today, week, month, or year to filter video upload windows rather than select video IDs. When both are supplied, upload_date overrides date_range; using date_range directly is recommended.Allowed valuesmonthtodayweekyear |
limit | body.params | integer (1–100) | No | 10 | The most rows to return in this call, an integer from 1 to 100. The default applies when you leave it out, and a call can return fewer rows. Larger values return 422 before any charge. |
Code samples
curl -X POST 'https://api.everyinfra.com/api/v1/social' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EVERYINFRA_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"platform": "dailymotion",
"action": "search",
"params": {
"keyword": "space documentary"
}
}'[OpenAPI definition (JSON)]Samples read the key from the EVERYINFRA_API_KEY environment variable; copied code never contains your key.
Response example
Captured September 26, 2026 at 08:56 (UTC) by calling this API with the parameters in the code sample above. results and count are that call's real response with personal information (names, handles, avatars, profile links, contact details) removed; the list keeps the first 2. id, billing and quota differ on every call, so only their shape is shown.
{
"id": "req_…",
"platform": "dailymotion",
"action": "search",
"results": [
{
"id": "xba07m2",
"url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xba07m2",
"title": "Star Courier - Complete Episode | Space Cowboys & Monster Survival [Full Movie]",
"duration_seconds": 2997,
"is_live": false,
"thumbnail_url": "https://s1.dmcdn.net/v/efNoA1gibq-6J0Y_Z/x240",
"channel_id": "x675jvq",
"channel_name": "ReplicationDrama",
"channel_url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/ReplicationDrama",
"created_at": "2026-09-19T05:42:49+00:00",
"platform": "dailymotion"
},
{
"id": "xbbhjxa",
"url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbbhjxa",
"title": "Love Lost in the Space - Full [Full Movie]",
"duration_seconds": 2093,
"is_live": false,
"thumbnail_url": "https://s1.dmcdn.net/v/eotOU1gj8TrDkL3BU/x240",
"channel_id": "x68473q",
"channel_name": "DependencyInjectionWatch",
"channel_url": "https://www.dailymotion.com/DependencyInjectionWatch",
"created_at": "2026-09-22T15:12:02+00:00",
"platform": "dailymotion"
}
],
"count": 10,
"billing": {
"charged": …,
"charged_usd": …,
"balance_after_usd": …,
…
},
"quota": { … }
}Response fields
Business data is in results. The table lists the fields a record can contain; values the platform does not show are never made up.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
id | The record's unique ID on the platform. Unique only within one platform; IDs can repeat across platforms. |
url | Link to the record on the platform. |
title | Title. null when the platform has no titles (for example text-only posts). |
description | Summary or description, usually shorter than text. |
duration_seconds | Duration in seconds. null for content that is not video or audio. |
duration_sec | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
view_count | Views or plays. null means not disclosed, not 0. |
like_count | Likes. null means the platform or this capability does not disclose it; it is not 0. |
comment_count | Comments. null means not disclosed, not 0. |
category | Category name in the platform's own taxonomy, not normalized across platforms. |
tags | Array of tags. An empty array, not null, when there are none. |
is_live | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
thumbnail_url | Thumbnail link, lower resolution than image_url. |
channel_id | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
channel_name | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
channel_url | Keeps the platform's own meaning |
created_at | Creation time, same format as posted_at. |
platform | Source platform identifier, the same as platform in the request (for example xiaohongshu, tiktok). |
Errors and billing
- 401
- Missing or invalid key. Authentication runs before parameter checks, so unauthenticated requests never see the parameter schema.
- 422
- Wrong parameter name or value. The error lists the parameters and allowed values this capability accepts and the closest match; it happens before any charge.
- 402
- Insufficient balance. Top up first.
- 429
- The account's per-minute request limit was reached (all of its API keys count together; a key's own lower limit applies first). Wait for Retry-After and try again; a rate package in the console raises the limit.
- 503
- Could not complete right now. Any charge for the call goes back to your balance automatically, and the billing receipt in the response states the actual outcome, including when it is not yet known. Do not resend blindly.
- 200 empty
- The request completed without data and is not charged (billing.reason = empty_result_refunded).
Official references
Used only to check objects and terms. They do not imply authorization or endorsement of EveryInfra by the platform.
- Dailymotion: Public Video Search and Restricted Content ↗
Dailymotion states that private videos do not appear in site search, and notes password protection, publish date, and geographic restrictions. This describes visibility boundaries only and does not imply that search results from this API cover all uploaded videos, nor does it provide the capability to bypass access restrictions.
Checked 2026-09-04