Dailymotion serves its media as MP4, and that is exactly what you keep. The container is passed through rather than rebuilt, so there is no generation loss between what Dailymotion stored and what ends up in your downloads folder. Dailymotion supports signed-in sessions upstream, which is precisely how it hides private material; we browse anonymously, so that material stays hidden. The extractor covers 4 separate Dailymotion URL shapes, so a link copied from anywhere on the site usually resolves as-is. Dailymotion is handled by the media route, which reads the site's own rendition list before choosing anything.
The address bar works too. Prefix any Dailymotion URL with tikt.com/:
tikt.com/https://www.example.com/path/to/media
The order of operations
1. Copy the Dailymotion link
Use the address bar or the platform's own share button — both give a URL the extractor recognises. Point it at the single item you want, not the page around it.
2. Let it read the renditions
Paste the URL above. The extractor asks Dailymotion which renditions exist for that item and picks the best progressive one rather than assuming a quality.
3. Save what comes back
The file arrives in the container Dailymotion served it in, and the extractor does not rebuild it — so what you end up with is what the uploader encoded, for better or worse.