The Daily Mail has been published since 1896, when it was built around the then-novel idea of a newspaper aimed at a mass readership rather than a political or commercial elite. MailOnline, launched in 2003, took that instinct online and became for a period the most visited English-language news website in the world.
Its online formula was distinct from the paper's: an enormous volume of stories published constantly, a sidebar of celebrity coverage that became famous in its own right, and heavy use of video and photography. The site is a considerably different product from the newspaper that shares its name.
Video is embedded throughout the articles, ranging from agency news footage to original reporting, celebrity clips and material licensed from elsewhere. It is published freely and without a paywall, which is how the site reached the scale it did.
Saving a MailOnline video
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Copy the Daily Mail article or video address
Take the dailymail.co.uk address from your browser. An article page containing a video works, as does the address of a video page itself.
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Lay the link in the field above
Paste it into the box at the top of this page, which begins reading it immediately.
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Take a resolution
The encodes available are listed with their file sizes. News video is usually offered at a couple of ordinary web resolutions.
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Put it on your device
Tap the row when it turns blue. Downloads on Android, the Files app on an iPhone.
Why people save news video
News articles are edited after publication far more often than readers assume. Headlines change, details are corrected, and video is sometimes swapped or removed entirely, frequently with no note that anything has altered.
Stories are also taken down. Legal complaints, corrections and rights disputes all result in material disappearing, and a link in a reading list is not a record of anything.
Researchers and anyone documenting media coverage therefore treat downloading as routine. If you are citing what a publication reported, a copy of the actual footage is worth considerably more than a URL that may not resolve to the same thing next year.
What sits inside a MailOnline article
The video embedded in a news article can come from several different places, and that affects whether it can be fetched.
| Source of the video | Can it be saved? | Worth knowing |
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| The publisher's own player | Yes | The ordinary case for their footage |
| Agency news footage | Yes, where embedded directly | Licensed from Reuters, AP and similar |
| A YouTube embed | Not from here | Use the YouTube page with that address |
| A social media embed | Not from here | Use the page for that platform |
| Paywalled or subscriber video | No | Requires an account |
If an article's video will not save, checking whether it is actually an embed from somewhere else is the first thing to do. News sites embed liberally, and the file frequently belongs to a different platform entirely.
Daily Mail download questions
Can I save video from any MailOnline article?
Where the video plays in the publisher's own player, yes. Embeds from YouTube or social platforms belong to those services instead.
Why would an article video not download?
Almost always because it is an embed from elsewhere. Copy the underlying platform's address and use its page here.
What quality will I get on Daily Mail?
News video is usually published at ordinary web resolutions rather than high definition. That is how it was encoded.
Can I save the whole article?
No, this handles video. A browser's own save or print function handles the text.
Why do news videos disappear?
Stories are edited, corrected and occasionally removed after publication, and video is sometimes swapped without any note that it changed.
Can I use news footage in my own video?
Most of it is agency material licensed for that publication's use. Commentary and criticism have some latitude depending on your country, but the footage belongs to the agency rather than the newspaper.
Where does the Daily Mail file save?
Downloads on Android, the Files app on an iPhone.
Does it work with the newspaper's other sites?
This page is for MailOnline addresses. Related titles have their own domains.
Is there a Daily Mail limit?
No cap and no queue.
Is saving news video acceptable?
For personal reference, research or citation it is ordinary and often necessary, given how much online news changes after publication. Republishing agency footage is a licensing matter and those agencies do enforce it.