Dailymotion problem

beric3236

It started today. I am unable to download videos from dailymotion. The title is only available in MP4 or MP3 format. What can I do. I have cleared the cache as recommended and still nothing. Please help.

Germania

beric3236 The title is only available in MP4 or MP3 format

I think you mean m4a or mp3 .. only Audio. I get in log:

[Info]: [RFC.commondl] "UpdateDownloadStatus : Status_request_metadata --> Status_request_metadata_failed" Critical]: [RFC.commondl] DASHContentCB parse dash failed. [Info]: [RFC.commondl] "UpdateDownloadStatus : Status_request_metadata_failed --> Status_none"

SF uses yt-dlp for this and need a change ..
.. see: [dailymotion] No video formats found

btw: IDM (Internet Download Manager) works fine for me

Stan001

For sites like Dailymotion, use Video DownloadHelper.
TubeDigger is handy to have also and works.
Of course, the SF video extension gives an error if you try to download.

Brave New World

Streamfab uses a modified version of yt-dlp to download videos and in the past few days Dailymotion has made changes to their site which has broken yt-dlp. All downloaders which are based on yt-dlp, which includes Streamfab, are currently broken for Dailymotion. There are two current workarounds - use the browser addon VideoDownload Helper, as someone else suggested, or use yt-dlp.exe at the command prompt with the option “–impersonate chrome”. That is:

      prompt>yt-dlp --impersonate chrome https://www.dailymotion.com/video/....

If you want to download DM pro stuff, you’ll need to add in your login details:

      prompt>yt-dlp --impersonate chrome -u <user> -p <password> https://www.dailymotion.com/video/....

I assume that’ll work, but I don’t have a pro account, so can’t confirm. I successfully used the first example to download some stuff yesterday … however the download speed is very slow, between 1-2x viewing speed (and that was on a very fast internet connection). If you want the technical details for what’s happened, check the discussion on the yt-dlp GitHub site (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15526).

The yt-dlp devs are working on a fix and hope to have it added to the stable release in the near future. We then have to wait for SF to catch up and they are usually several versions behind with yt-dlp, so it might be a while unless they can utilise the “–impersonate chrome” option.

Stan001

Yes, it works in yt-dlp. Many don’t like to use it. I think because it’s command line use.
I use it like crazy and have standard yt-dlp and yt-dlp nightly.
And yes, it works right now with the temp fix of adding –impersonate chrome to the command line.
And yes, in a nightly or regular update it should get fixed soon.
And yes, SF is versions behind in yt-dlp (YoutubeToMP3Process), but then again what open software SF uses is not behind versions like even simple thing like the browser.

So that’s why the mention of Video DownloadHelper.
And tubediggger at only $25 is worth it as it works also on many sites not DRM, some that may not work in Video DownloadHelper.

october262

Stan001

you can also open devtools and search for manifest_m3u8 to download the video
without using the –impersonate chrome option with yt-dlp.