Dailymotion to Text

What this tool does

Paste a Dailymotion link, get its subtitle track back as text. This pulls whatever subtitle file Dailymotion already has for the video — the same one behind its player's CC button — and turns it into readable prose, timestamped lines, or a downloadable SRT/WebVTT file. No sign-in, no extension, no audio processed.

Works with dailymotion.com/video/... links, dai.ly short links, embed links, or a bare video ID.

Before you paste a link: subtitle coverage is thin

Be honest with yourself about this one going in — most Dailymotion videos have no subtitles at all. This tool reads a subtitle track that already exists; it doesn't listen to the audio and generate one. When a video has none, you'll get a clear "no subtitles" message instead of a made-up transcript. News partners (Euronews, France24 and similar) are the most likely to have a track, usually a single auto-generated one.

Choosing an output format

• Readable paragraphs — the default. Subtitle fragments get stitched into real sentences and grouped into paragraphs.
• Plain text — one continuous block, no line breaks.
• Timestamped lines — every line prefixed with [12:34], for finding the exact moment something was said.
• SRT and WebVTT — real subtitle files with start/end timecodes, ready for a video editor or a re-upload.
• JSON — every cue as { startMs, endMs, durationMs, text }, for feeding the transcript to another script.

Using it as a Dailymotion transcript API

Every format above is one HTTP call away — see More ways to use this tool below for a ready-made curl. POST a videoUrl and a format, get JSON back. Agents can call the same tool over MCP. transcript is always a string, whatever format you asked for; the video field carries the canonical dailymotion.com/video/... URL, rebuilt from whatever link shape you sent in.

Subtitle language

The Subtitle language code field lives under Advanced, collapsed, because almost no video needs it — most that have subtitles at all have exactly one track. Leave it blank and the tool takes whatever's available, preferring a human-written track over an auto-generated one when a video happens to have both. Enter a code (en, fr, pt-BR) to force a specific track if the video carries more than one — the Details panel lists every track it actually found.

What it can't do

• Videos with no subtitles. The common case, not the exception — see above.
• Private and password-protected videos. Their subtitles aren't publicly readable.

Good uses for a transcript

Pull the words out of a news clip without re-watching it. Search a longer segment for the part you remember. Get a re-upload's subtitle file without re-typing it from scratch.

Common questions

How do I get a Dailymotion video's subtitles? Paste the link at the top of this page and press the button. dailymotion.com, dai.ly and embed URLs all work, and so does a bare video ID.

Why does it say this video has no subtitles? Because it genuinely doesn't — most Dailymotion uploads never get one. This reads an existing subtitle track rather than generating one from audio.

Can I download the result as a subtitle file? Yes — pick SRT or WebVTT and use the download button on the result.

Is there a free Dailymotion transcript API? Yes — see Using it as a Dailymotion transcript API above. It draws from your account's normal credit allowance.

Related tools

• YouTube to Text — the same idea for YouTube, whose auto-caption coverage is far higher.
• Vimeo Thumbnail Downloader — grab a Vimeo video's thumbnail image.
• Text Summarizer — condense the transcript once you have it.