Save Dailymotion videos as MP4 files.
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Dailymotion links convert cleanly to MP4 downloads in every resolution the uploader published — usually from 240p up to 1080p.
Copy the video page URL from your browser's address bar.
Drop the link into the box and we'll list every quality and format available for it.
Click Download on the quality you want. The file saves straight to your device.
Dailymotion is the internet's other great video library — hundreds of millions of videos with a particularly strong pull outside the English-speaking world. French news, Arabic music, Turkish drama clips, sports highlights, full concerts, and a deep back-catalogue of uploads that never made it to YouTube: Dailymotion is where a surprising amount of the web's video actually lives. Our free Dailymotion downloader saves any public video as an MP4 on your device, in the best quality available. Paste the link above — no account, no software, no charge.
Dailymotion's audience knows the frustrations: streams that buffer on anything less than perfect Wi-Fi, no meaningful offline option in the app, and a catalogue that quietly shifts as channels close and rights expire. People download Dailymotion videos to watch on commutes and flights, to keep music performances and concert footage that isn't sold anywhere, to save news clips for reference, and to archive older uploads — some corners of Dailymotion are time capsules of mid-2000s internet culture that exist nowhere else.
It's also a practical tool for anyone who works with video. Journalists save news segments for verification and research. Teachers download clips for classrooms where streaming is unreliable. And creators keep local copies of everything they upload, because a platform library is not a backup.
The shortcut works here as well: type thesavefrom.com/ in front of any Dailymotion link and it loads automatically.
Dailymotion serves most videos in a ladder from 240p up to 720p or 1080p, and our list shows exactly what each video offers. For phones, 480p or 720p hits the sweet spot between sharpness and size. For archiving music performances and anything you'll watch on a TV, take the highest available — Dailymotion's 1080p encodes are clean and hold up well on a big screen. Every download is a standard MP4 with audio embedded, so it plays on any device without conversion.
Because Dailymotion is less aggressive about compression than some rivals, file sizes can be a touch larger at the same resolution — worth knowing if you're saving a long concert on limited storage. When space matters, drop one quality step; the difference on a phone screen is barely visible.
It doesn't require your Dailymotion login — public videos need no account. It doesn't hide the download behind installer offers or browser extensions. It doesn't watermark your file or throttle you after three downloads. SaveFrom does one thing: fetch the video streams Dailymotion serves, let you pick one, and pass it to your device. Nothing you download is stored on our servers.
A lot of Dailymotion's best content comes from broadcasters, musicians and small channels who rely on views. Download for personal offline watching and archiving; if you share a clip, link back to the original and credit the uploader. Re-uploading someone else's work as your own isn't archiving — it's just taking.
Short links are fine. The dai.ly URLs from the Share button resolve perfectly, as do the full video-page addresses — use whichever you have. Playlists are one video at a time here too: paste the individual video link rather than the playlist overview and you'll always get the right file. Age-gated content needs a login, and since we never ask for one, those videos stay out of reach — if you can watch it in a logged-out browser, we can save it.
Mind the length on concerts and full shows. Dailymotion hosts a lot of long-form uploads — full sets, match replays, TV segments — and a ninety-minute video at 1080p is a chunky file. The fix is boring but effective: download long videos over Wi-Fi, pick 720p when the screen is a phone, and keep 1080p for the TV-bound archive. Explore the back-catalogue while it lasts. Dailymotion's older uploads — early YouTube-era content that never migrated, regional TV clips, decade-old music performances — survive on the platform's quiet corners, and channels do close. If your search for something rare ends on Dailymotion, downloading it immediately is the difference between a keeper and a dead link in your notes. Rename files as they land, keep a folder per interest, and your future self will thank you.
The downloaded MP4 frees the video from Dailymotion's infrastructure entirely, and that matters more on this platform than most. Streams from smaller video hosts are the first to stutter on congested evening networks, long train routes and hotel Wi-Fi — a file plays identically everywhere. Travellers heading to regions where Dailymotion is slow or blocked can load a phone or tablet before departure and watch the whole way. The files slot neatly into any media setup, too: drop them into a Plex or VLC library, copy them to a USB stick for a TV, or sync them to a tablet for the kids. And because every download is a plain MP4 with audio embedded, there's no conversion step and no special player — if a device was made this century, it can play what you save here.
Scroll up, paste a Dailymotion link, and watch on your schedule instead of the stream's.