Migrate video catalog via MRSS feed

Introduction

Dailymotion offers the possibility to migrate your existing video catalog to our platform using an MRSS feed.

MRSS feeds simplify the process of importing and updating video catalogs by providing Dailymotion with a structured and standardized way to communicate metadata and media links. This way, your video catalog can be migrated and updated while being available on multiple platforms without the need to manually upload content.

In this article, we’ll walk you through the process of preparing your MRSS feed for the migration with all required information.

Prerequisites

As a Partner, make sure to complete the following requirements before moving forward with the other steps:

• Create an account on Dailymotion.com
• Get in touch with your Dailymotion Account Manager to define your needs for the migration
• Upload a video to test the encoding compatibility

1. Prepare your server

In order for Dailymotion to access your video catalog, please make sure your server follows the below requirements:

Input formats

Dailymotion supports the following input formats for content ingestion:

• HTTP(S)
• FTP(S)
• SFTP (in this case, please add port information in each URL for proper access)

Content accessibility

Dailymotion will actively pull the content from your server: if you have blockers in place preventing content accessibility from external IPs, make sure your server is configured to allow “Pull mode” requests, and that Dailymotion IPs are authorized:

• 188.65.120.0 / 21
• 195.8.214.0 / 23
• 198.54.200.0 / 23

2. Prepare your MRSS feed

Declaration

Include the following declarations at the top of your MRSS feed to indicate the XML file format and namespace used.

XML declaration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Namespace declaration

Media RSS

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/">

DCMI

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">

Dailymotion RSS

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dm="http://www.dailymotion.com/dmrss/">

MRSS tags

MRSS feeds must include metadata about each video item, such as title, description, media URL and any other relevant information.

Your MRSS feed needs to include an <item> entry for each video in your catalog, and to be structured in a way that aligns with MRSS requirements.

CDATA sections

If you need to include in the tags text that might contain characters or symbols that could be misinterpreted as XML markup, we recommend using CDATA sections.

A CDATA section starts with “<![CDATA[” and ends with “]]>“.

<description><![CDATA[Description of the video can be up to 2000 characters long and can contain line breaks using the <br> html tag]]></description>

Required items

Each MRSS feed must include the following item tags to be processed by our service:

• <title> – Defines the video title displayed on Dailymotion
• <category> – Defines the video category (list of categories)
• <guid> – A unique key set on your database to link the Dailymotion video and your video
• <media:content url=""> – Direct link to the video hosted on your properties

Available tags

If you want to add more metadata about your content, the following tags can be defined. See an example of an MRSS feed here.

Channel tags

Item tags

General
* required tags

Music

Movie roles

Dailymotion.com specific data

3. Share your MRSS feed

You can now share the following information to your Dailymotion Account Manager so our technical team can start processing your catalog ingestion:

• Your MRSS feed URL (with login/password if needed)
• The Dailymotion channel where the content will be ingested
• The frequency defining how often the MRSS feed should be crawled

Technical specifications

Feed example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        <rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:dm="http://www.dailymotion.com/dmrss/">
            <channel>
                <title><![CDATA[Universal Pictures]]></title>
                <link>http://www.universalpictures.com/</link>
                <description><![CDATA[Universal Pictures is an American motion picture studio]]></description>
                <lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:00:00 -0400</lastBuildDate>
                <item>
                    <title><![CDATA[Back to the Future]]></title>
                    <description><![CDATA[Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film...]]></description>
                    <media:category scheme="urn:dm:channel">shortfilms</media:category>
                    <guid isPermaLink="false">12345_back_to_the_future</guid>
                    <media:content url="http://www.example.com/video/12345_back_to_the_future.mp4" width="1280" height="720" bitrate="3317" filesize="1326739508" duration="6960" type="video/quicktime" lang="en" />
                    <media:keywords><![CDATA[DeLorean, Time Machine, Back to the Future]]></media:keywords>
                </item>
            </channel>
        </rss>