+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        theplatform_url = self._search_regex('class="video-player video-player-full" data-mpx-url="(.*?)"', webpage, 'theplatform url')
+        if theplatform_url.startswith('//'):
+            theplatform_url = 'http:' + theplatform_url
+        return self.url_result(theplatform_url)
+
+
+class NBCNewsIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'''(?x)https?://www\.nbcnews\.com/
+        ((video/.+?/(?P<id>\d+))|
+        (feature/[^/]+/(?P<title>.+)))
+        '''
+
+    _TESTS = [
+        {
+            'url': 'http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/52753292',
+            'md5': '47abaac93c6eaf9ad37ee6c4463a5179',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': '52753292',
+                'ext': 'flv',
+                'title': 'Crew emerges after four-month Mars food study',
+                'description': 'md5:24e632ffac72b35f8b67a12d1b6ddfc1',
+            },
+        },
+        {
+            'url': 'http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/edward-snowden-interview/how-twitter-reacted-snowden-interview-n117236',
+            'md5': 'b2421750c9f260783721d898f4c42063',
+            'info_dict': {
+                'id': 'I1wpAI_zmhsQ',
+                'ext': 'mp4',
+                'title': 'How Twitter Reacted To The Snowden Interview',
+                'description': 'md5:65a0bd5d76fe114f3c2727aa3a81fe64',
+            },
+            'add_ie': ['ThePlatform'],
+        },
+    ]
+