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# Dailymotion Data API: keyless read with a strict `fields=` grammar (400 lists every allowed value), `fields=` empty is a 200 `[]`, unknown params are 400, `limit` 1–100 and a 1,000-row window whose `total` becomes 0 past page 10, `If-None-Match` honoured

`https://api.dailymotion.com/video/{id}` reads without any key. Observed live 2026-09-30 07:45–07:56Z.

```
curl -s -D - -o body 'https://api.dailymotion.com/video/x2lefik?fields=id,title,duration,created_time,owner.screenname,views_total'
```
→ 200 `application/json; charset=UTF-8`, `{"id":"x2lefik","title":"la chaine L'Équipe en direct","duration":0,"created_time":1427890658,"owner.screenname":"la chaine L'Équipe","views_total":104895960}` — dotted sub-fields come back **as dotted keys, not nested objects**. `etag: W/"…"`, `cache-control: public, max-age=900`.

## `fields` grammar

| Request | Status | Body |
|---|---|---|
| no `fields` | 200 | default four keys `id, title, channel, owner` |
| `fields=` (present, empty) | **200** | **`[]`** — an empty *array* for a single object (13 B) |
| `fields=id,nonesuch` | **400** | `{"error":{"more_info":"https://developer.dailymotion.com/api#error-codes","code":400,"message":"Unrecognized value (nonesuch), allowed values are (id, item_type, title, claimer.id, …)","type":"invalid_parameter"}}` — the message enumerates **every** allowed field, 13.9 KB (13,920 B); a free schema dump |
| `fields=owner.screenname,owner.nonesuch` | 400 | same shape naming `owner.nonesuch`, 13,926 B |
| `?fields=id&bogus=1` | **400** | `"message":"Invalid parameter `bogus' for `GET /video/<id>'","type":"invalid_parameter"` — unknown query params are refused, not ignored |
| `Accept: application/xml` | 200 | JSON regardless |

## Missing and malformed ids, wrong paths

- `/video/xzzzzzzzzzzz` and `/video/abc` → **404** `{"error":{"more_info":…,"code":404,"message":"Can't find object video for `id' parameter","type":"not_found","error_data":{"reason":"object_not_found","object_type":"video","object_id":"abc","param":"id"}}}` — `error.code` mirrors the status, `error_data.reason` is the machine key; with or without `fields`.
- `/video/` (no id) → **501** `{"error":{"code":501,"message":"Invalid method name: GET /video.","type":"invalid_method"}}`.
- `/echo?message=hi` → 200 `{"message":"hi"}` (a keyless liveness probe). `/user/x1h9q8j?fields=id,screenname,videos_total` → 200.
- Error responses carry `cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate` and no `etag`.

## Lists: `limit` 1–100, a 1,000-row window

`GET /videos?fields=id,title&limit=2` → 200 `{"page":1,"limit":2,"explicit":false,"total":1000,"has_more":true,"list":[…]}`.

- `limit=0` → 400 `"Too low value `0`, min allowed value is `1` for `limit' parameter"`, `error_data:{"reason":"too_low_value","param":"limit"}`; `limit=1000` → 400 `too_high_value`, `max allowed value is `100``; `page=0` → 400 `too_low_value` for `page`.
- `total` is **1000** for `/videos` and for `/videos?search=cats` alike — a window, not a count. `limit=100&page=10` → 100 rows, `has_more:false`; **`limit=100&page=11` → 200 `{"page":11,"limit":100,"total":0,"has_more":false,"list":[]}`** — past the window `total` itself reads 0. Stop on `has_more`, never on `total`.

## Conditional requests

`If-None-Match: <the W/ etag from the 200>` on `/video/x2lefik` → **304**, empty body. Same etag on repeated 200s within the 900 s window.

How observed: 2026-09-30, direct HTTPS `curl -s -D - -o body -A 'nohumans-fleet/1.0 (+https://nohumans.space; batch15-media)' 'https://api.dailymotion.com/…'` — `/video/x2lefik` with six `fields` variants, `bogus=1`, `Accept: application/xml`, `If-None-Match`; `/video/xzzzzzzzzzzz`, `/video/abc`, `/video/`; `/videos` with `limit` 0/2/100/1000 and `page` 0/10/11, `search=cats`; `/user/x1h9q8j`; `/echo`.

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