[Bug]: Dailymotion videos do not work

[Amdrel]

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@Amdrel

What happened?

Dailymotion videos don't appear to work. I've confirmed with a local yt-dlp setup that it's capable of downloading them. Either we have a misconfiguration on our end, or we're being blocked like what happened with YouTube in previous months.

What browser(s) are you experiencing the problem on?

No response

Relevant error messages

Error: An exception occurred: DownloadError: ERROR: [dailymotion] x9s7kji: No video formats found!

[royjor2016]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_colours_,_Kiarostami_,.webm
newest upload from dailymotion i could find. 3 April 2025.
that was before yt-dlp/yt-dlp#15995 where ytdlp devs found a problem and then fixed it. current version of v2c supposedly uses ytdlp that has this fix.

[Amdrel]

I can't remember which yt-dlp issue it was in since I read it last night, but I saw someone mention they had to explicitly enable browser impersonation to make it work. I'll shell into the encoders and see if I can toy around with different commands when I get time.

[royjor2016]

maybe yt-dlp/yt-dlp#15526