Dailymotion delivers videos using HLS streaming, where the video is broken into small fragments and controlled by a .m3u8 manifest file.
With one terminal command, you can download the full, merged .mp4 from any Dailymotion video you have access to.

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🔍 Step 1 — Open DevTools & Locate the .m3u8 Manifest

To download any Dailymotion video, you first need to find the HLS manifest file.

1. Open the video on Dailymotion.
2. Open Developer Tools → Network.
3. Click Media (or filter by m3u8).
4. Play the video (this loads the real stream URL).
5. Look for a request ending in:

.../manifest.m3u8

Dailymotion URLs usually look like:

https://vod3.cf.dmcdn.net/sec2(<TOKEN>)/video/fmp4/<VIDEO_ID>/h264_aac_fhd/1/manifest.m3u8

✔️ The presence of sec2(...) means it is signed and time-limited — so download soon after copying it.

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⚙️ Step 2 — Copy the Universal yt-dlp Command

Use this exact known-working command:

yt-dlp "PASTE_M3U8_URL_HERE" --concurrent-fragments 10 --merge-output-format mp4

This will:

• Download all .ts segments in parallel
• Automatically merge the fragments
• Export a clean .mp4

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🚀 Step 3 — Replace the URL With Your Captured Manifest & Run It

Example from DevTools:

yt-dlp "https://vod3.cf.dmcdn.net/sec2(qJ6jUellOiqkyvIIjJsCy_vpaUs2bYibyRFm5fZHPAWLi2ohERkpoy-8UJfTLnA_i4Kt_50qcow0O4Bn6GQFRGwY7djUDcsmNESnIvzdWPglZB0zfcxNN07kLGRpmguSRbEI6WkV2ntitB4uAl3-xhuko7f4exQdOWdjCiV0bs2kUw8_d_ERdlBN23vQUelZ)/video/fmp4/595656186/h264_aac_fhd/1/manifest.m3u8" --concurrent-fragments 10 --merge-output-format mp4

Paste it → hit Enter → done.

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Related

• https://github.com/serpapps/dailymotion-downloader
• How to Download Dailymotion Videos
• https://gist.github.com/devinschumacher/6dddbf66f30258486e0acd34f1d9d54a