diff --git a/test/test_dailymotion_subtitles.py b/test/test_dailymotion_subtitles.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f63426a185
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_dailymotion_subtitles.py
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys
+import unittest
+import json
+import io
+import hashlib
+
+# Allow direct execution
+import os
+sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+
+from youtube_dl.extractor import DailymotionIE
+from youtube_dl.utils import *
+from helper import FakeYDL
+
+md5 = lambda s: hashlib.md5(s.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+TEST_URL = 'http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xczg00'
+
+class TestDailymotionSubtitles(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        DL = FakeYDL()
+        DL.params['allsubtitles'] = False
+        DL.params['writesubtitles'] = False
+        DL.params['subtitlesformat'] = 'srt'
+        DL.params['listsubtitles'] = False
+    def test_no_subtitles(self):
+        DL = FakeYDL()
+        DL.params['writesubtitles'] = False
+        IE = DailymotionIE(DL)
+        info_dict = IE.extract(TEST_URL)
+        subtitles = info_dict[0]['subtitles']
+        self.assertEqual(subtitles, None)
+    def test_subtitles(self):
+        DL = FakeYDL()
+        DL.params['writesubtitles'] = True
+        IE = DailymotionIE(DL)
+        info_dict = IE.extract(TEST_URL)
+        sub = info_dict[0]['subtitles']['en']
+        self.assertEqual(md5(sub), '976553874490cba125086bbfea3ff76f')
+    def test_subtitles_fr(self):
+        DL = FakeYDL()
+        DL.params['writesubtitles'] = True
+        DL.params['subtitleslang'] = 'fr'
+        IE = DailymotionIE(DL)
+        info_dict = IE.extract(TEST_URL)
+        sub = info_dict[0]['subtitles']['fr']
+        self.assertEqual(md5(sub), '594564ec7d588942e384e920e5341792')
+    def test_onlysubtitles(self):
+        DL = FakeYDL()
+        DL.params['writesubtitles'] = True
+        DL.params['onlysubtitles'] = True
+        IE = DailymotionIE(DL)
+        info_dict = IE.extract(TEST_URL)
+        sub = info_dict[0]['subtitles']['en']
+        self.assertEqual(md5(sub), '976553874490cba125086bbfea3ff76f')
+    def test_allsubtitles(self):
+        DL = FakeYDL()
+        DL.params['allsubtitles'] = True
+        IE = DailymotionIE(DL)
+        info_dict = IE.extract(TEST_URL)
+        subtitles = info_dict[0]['subtitles']
+        self.assertEqual(len(subtitles.keys()), 5)
+    # def test_subtitles_sbv_format(self):
+    #     DL = FakeYDL()
+    #     DL.params['writesubtitles'] = True
+    #     DL.params['subtitlesformat'] = 'sbv'
+    #     IE = DailymotionIE(DL)
+    #     info_dict = IE.extract(TEST_URL)
+    #     sub = info_dict[0]['subtitles'][0]
+    #     self.assertEqual(md5(sub), '13aeaa0c245a8bed9a451cb643e3ad8b')
+    # def test_subtitles_vtt_format(self):
+    #     DL = FakeYDL()
+    #     DL.params['writesubtitles'] = True
+    #     DL.params['subtitlesformat'] = 'vtt'
+    #     IE = DailymotionIE(DL)
+    #     info_dict = IE.extract(TEST_URL)
+    #     sub = info_dict[0]['subtitles'][0]
+    #     self.assertEqual(md5(sub), '356cdc577fde0c6783b9b822e7206ff7')
+    def test_list_subtitles(self):
+        DL = FakeYDL()
+        DL.params['listsubtitles'] = True
+        IE = DailymotionIE(DL)
+        info_dict = IE.extract(TEST_URL)
+        self.assertEqual(info_dict, None)
+    def test_automatic_captions(self):
+        DL = FakeYDL()
+        DL.params['writeautomaticsub'] = True
+        DL.params['subtitleslang'] = 'en'
+        IE = DailymotionIE(DL)
+        info_dict = IE.extract(TEST_URL)
+        sub = info_dict[0]['subtitles']
+        self.assertTrue(len(sub) == 0)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index eb23c53a57..c4d595e1c1 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -187,22 +187,22 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
             action='store_true', dest='listformats', help='list all available formats (currently youtube only)')
     video_format.add_option('--write-sub', '--write-srt',
             action='store_true', dest='writesubtitles',
-            help='write subtitle file (currently youtube only)', default=False)
+            help='write subtitle file', default=False)
     video_format.add_option('--write-auto-sub', '--write-automatic-sub',
             action='store_true', dest='writeautomaticsub',
-            help='write automatic subtitle file (currently youtube only)', default=False)
+            help='write automatic subtitle file (youtube only)', default=False)
     video_format.add_option('--only-sub',
             action='store_true', dest='skip_download',
             help='[deprecated] alias of --skip-download', default=False)
     video_format.add_option('--all-subs',
             action='store_true', dest='allsubtitles',
-            help='downloads all the available subtitles of the video (currently youtube only)', default=False)
+            help='downloads all the available subtitles of the video', default=False)
     video_format.add_option('--list-subs',
             action='store_true', dest='listsubtitles',
-            help='lists all available subtitles for the video (currently youtube only)', default=False)
+            help='lists all available subtitles for the video', default=False)
     video_format.add_option('--sub-format',
             action='store', dest='subtitlesformat', metavar='FORMAT',
-            help='subtitle format [srt/sbv/vtt] (default=srt) (currently youtube only)', default='srt')
+            help='subtitle format (default=srt) ([sbv/vtt] youtube only)', default='srt')
     video_format.add_option('--sub-lang', '--srt-lang',
             action='store', dest='subtitleslang', metavar='LANG',
             help='language of the subtitles to download (optional) use IETF language tags like \'en\'')
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py
index 9bf7a28ca8..eb2322d547 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/dailymotion.py
@@ -1,14 +1,49 @@
 import re
 import json
+import itertools
+import socket
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor
+from .subtitles import SubtitlesIE
+
 from ..utils import (
+    compat_http_client,
+    compat_urllib_error,
     compat_urllib_request,
+    compat_str,
+    get_element_by_attribute,
+    get_element_by_id,
 
     ExtractorError,
 )
 
-class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
+
+class DailyMotionSubtitlesIE(SubtitlesIE):
+
+    def _get_available_subtitles(self, video_id):
+        request = compat_urllib_request.Request('https://api.dailymotion.com/video/%s/subtitles?fields=id,language,url' % video_id)
+        try:
+            sub_list = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
+        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
+            self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to download video subtitles: %s' % compat_str(err))
+            return {}
+        info = json.loads(sub_list)
+        if (info['total'] > 0):
+            sub_lang_list = dict((l['language'], l['url']) for l in info['list'])
+            return sub_lang_list
+        self._downloader.report_warning(u'video doesn\'t have subtitles')
+        return {}
+
+    def _get_subtitle_url(self, sub_lang, sub_name, video_id, format):
+        sub_lang_list = self._get_available_subtitles(video_id)
+        return sub_lang_list[sub_lang]
+
+    def _request_automatic_caption(self, video_id, webpage):
+        self._downloader.report_warning(u'Automatic Captions not supported by dailymotion')
+        return {}
+
+
+class DailymotionIE(DailyMotionSubtitlesIE): #,InfoExtractor):
     """Information Extractor for Dailymotion"""
 
     _VALID_URL = r'(?i)(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?dailymotion\.[a-z]{2,3}/video/([^/]+)'
@@ -18,7 +53,7 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
         u'file': u'x33vw9.mp4',
         u'md5': u'392c4b85a60a90dc4792da41ce3144eb',
         u'info_dict': {
-            u"uploader": u"Alex and Van .", 
+            u"uploader": u"Alex and Van .",
             u"title": u"Tutoriel de Youtubeur\"DL DES VIDEO DE YOUTUBE\""
         }
     }
@@ -57,17 +92,36 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         # TODO: support choosing qualities
 
-        for key in ['stream_h264_hd1080_url','stream_h264_hd_url',
-                    'stream_h264_hq_url','stream_h264_url',
+        for key in ['stream_h264_hd1080_url', 'stream_h264_hd_url',
+                    'stream_h264_hq_url', 'stream_h264_url',
                     'stream_h264_ld_url']:
-            if info.get(key):#key in info and info[key]:
+            if info.get(key):  # key in info and info[key]:
                 max_quality = key
-                self.to_screen(u'Using %s' % key)
+                self.to_screen(u'%s: Using %s' % (video_id, key))
                 break
         else:
             raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video URL')
         video_url = info[max_quality]
 
+        # subtitles
+        video_subtitles = None
+        video_webpage = None
+
+        if self._downloader.params.get('writesubtitles', False) or self._downloader.params.get('allsubtitles', False):
+            video_subtitles = self._extract_subtitles(video_id)
+        elif self._downloader.params.get('writeautomaticsub', False):
+            video_subtitles = self._request_automatic_caption(video_id, video_webpage)
+
+        if self._downloader.params.get('listsubtitles', False):
+            self._list_available_subtitles(video_id)
+            return
+
+        if 'length_seconds' not in info:
+            self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to extract video duration')
+            video_duration = ''
+        else:
+            video_duration = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(video_info['length_seconds'][0])
+
         return [{
             'id':       video_id,
             'url':      video_url,
@@ -75,5 +129,6 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
             'upload_date':  video_upload_date,
             'title':    self._og_search_title(webpage),
             'ext':      video_extension,
+            'subtitles':    video_subtitles,
             'thumbnail': info['thumbnail_url']
         }]
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..89864e5d78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/subtitles.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+import socket
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+from ..utils import (
+    compat_http_client,
+    compat_urllib_error,
+    compat_urllib_request,
+    compat_str,
+)
+
+
+class SubtitlesIE(InfoExtractor):
+
+    def report_video_subtitles_available(self, video_id, sub_lang_list):
+        """Report available subtitles."""
+        sub_lang = ",".join(list(sub_lang_list.keys()))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Available subtitles for video: %s' % (video_id, sub_lang))
+
+    def _list_available_subtitles(self, video_id):
+        sub_lang_list = self._get_available_subtitles(video_id)
+        self.report_video_subtitles_available(video_id, sub_lang_list)
+
+    def _extract_subtitles(self, video_id):
+        """
+        Return a dictionary: {language: subtitles} or {} if the subtitles
+        couldn't be found
+        """
+        sub_lang_list = self._get_available_subtitles(video_id)
+        sub_format = self._downloader.params.get('subtitlesformat')
+        if  not sub_lang_list: #There was some error, it didn't get the available subtitles
+            return {}
+        if self._downloader.params.get('writesubtitles', False):
+            if self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang', False):
+                sub_lang = self._downloader.params.get('subtitleslang')
+            elif 'en' in sub_lang_list:
+                sub_lang = 'en'
+            else:
+                sub_lang = list(sub_lang_list.keys())[0]
+            if not sub_lang in sub_lang_list:
+                self._downloader.report_warning(u'no closed captions found in the specified language "%s"' % sub_lang)
+                return {}
+            sub_lang_list = {sub_lang: sub_lang_list[sub_lang]}
+        subtitles = {}
+        for sub_lang in sub_lang_list:
+            subtitle = self._request_subtitle(sub_lang, sub_lang_list[sub_lang].encode('utf-8'), video_id, sub_format)
+            if subtitle:
+                subtitles[sub_lang] = subtitle
+        return subtitles
+
+    def _request_subtitle(self, sub_lang, sub_name, video_id, format):
+        """ Return the subtitle as a string or None if they are not found """
+        # return (u'Did not fetch video subtitles for %s' % sub_lang, None, None)
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Downloading video subtitles for %s.%s' % (video_id, sub_lang, format))
+        url = self._get_subtitle_url(sub_lang, sub_name, video_id, format)
+        try:
+            sub = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8')
+        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
+            self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to download video subtitles for %s: %s' % (sub_lang, compat_str(err)))
+            return
+        if not sub:
+            self._downloader.report_warning(u'Did not fetch video subtitles')
+            return
+        return sub
+
+    def _get_available_subtitles(self, video_id):
+        """Get available subtitles. Redefine in subclasses."""
+        """returns {(lang, url)} """
+        # return {}
+        pass
+
+    def _get_subtitle_url(self, sub_lang, sub_name, video_id, format):
+        """returns the url for the given subtitle. Redefine in subclasses."""
+        pass
+
+    def _request_automatic_caption(self, video_id, webpage):
+        """Request automatic caption. Redefine in subclasses."""
+        """returns a tuple of ... """
+        # return [(err_msg, None, None)]
+        pass