Right now, downloading a Dailymotion playlist means saving its videos one by one — copy each video's link, run it through downloadxAI, and let parallel browser tabs do the heavy lifting. A 20-video playlist takes about ten minutes this way. A true one-click batch feature is on our roadmap — we're building it — but here's the workflow that works today, done efficiently.
First: know what you're actually downloading
Dailymotion has three things people casually call "playlists," and the distinction matters for how you approach them:
- Playlist — an ordered list someone curated. It can mix videos from many different creators, which also means the usage rights can differ from video to video.
- Channel — a creator's home base, listing everything they've uploaded. Saving "a channel" usually means a bigger job than a playlist, and if it isn't your own channel, the rights question gets serious fast.
- Collection — a creator's own uploads grouped by theme on their channel. Single-source, like a channel, just pre-filtered.
The steps below work for all three, because they all come down to the same unit: individual video links. And the standing rule applies at scale too — stick to your own content, Creative Commons material, or permitted videos. Our legality guide explains why bulk-saving someone's catalog is a different beast from saving one permitted clip.
Step by step: playlist to downloads folder
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Open the playlist on dailymotion.com. Scroll through it once so you know how many videos you're dealing with — and skip any you don't actually want.
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Open the first video and copy its URL. Click the video title to open its page, then copy the address bar URL. On a playlist page, right-click → copy link on a thumbnail often works too, saving a page load.
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Open downloadxAI in a browser tab, paste the link, and pick a quality. Start the download, but don't sit and watch the progress bar.
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Open the tool in 2–3 more tabs for the next videos. While the first downloads, paste the second and third links in their own tabs — parallel tabs are what turn an hour of waiting into ten minutes of clicking.
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Keep each tab's download to one quality choice. Consistency helps: pick 720p for everything unless you specifically need 1080p, so the playlist ends up uniform in size and quality.
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Let the browser queue the files. Chrome, Edge, and Firefox all stack simultaneous downloads into the same Downloads folder without any configuration — check progress with Ctrl+J (Cmd+Shift+J on Mac).
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Spot-check the first finished file. Play a few seconds before downloading the rest, so a wrong link or a wrong quality choice costs you one download instead of twenty.
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Rename or sort the files when you're done. Files arrive named after their videos; a quick pass adding "01 -", "02 -" prefixes restores the playlist order in any folder view or player.
Download Dailymotion videos free — paste a link, pick a quality, done.
Try it now ↓Playlist-specific things worth knowing
Parallel tabs are the whole trick. The per-video steps are identical to our PC & Mac guide — the only playlist-specific skill is running two or three tabs at once. More than three or four parallel downloads rarely helps; your bandwidth becomes the bottleneck and everything just crawls together.
Playlist order doesn't survive the download. Browsers save files, not lists. If order matters — a course, a series, a documentary in parts — the numbered-prefix renaming habit from step 8 is the difference between a watchable archive and a pile of mystery files.
Expect the occasional private or deleted entry. Long playlists accumulate dead links: videos the owner removed or made private. Those can't be resolved by any legitimate tool — our honest explainer on private videos covers why — so just skip them and move on.
Phone users: keep it short. The same workflow runs on mobile — see the iPhone and Android guides for the folder details — but juggling parallel tabs is genuinely easier on a desktop. For a 2–3 video mini-playlist, mobile is fine; for twenty videos, borrow a laptop.
About one-click batch download. We know this is the feature everyone wants, and we're building batch download into downloadxAI — paste a playlist link, get the videos. We'd rather ship it reliable than ship it fast, so no fake countdown timers here: it'll show up on the site when it works. Stay tuned.