-class ViceBaseIE(AdobePassIE):
-    def _extract_preplay_video(self, url, locale, webpage):
-        watch_hub_data = extract_attributes(self._search_regex(
-            r'(?s)(<watch-hub\s*.+?</watch-hub>)', webpage, 'watch hub'))
-        video_id = watch_hub_data['vms-id']
-        title = watch_hub_data['video-title']
-
-        query = {}
-        is_locked = watch_hub_data.get('video-locked') == '1'
-        if is_locked:
-            resource = self._get_mvpd_resource(
-                'VICELAND', title, video_id,
-                watch_hub_data.get('video-rating'))
-            query['tvetoken'] = self._extract_mvpd_auth(
-                url, video_id, 'VICELAND', resource)
-
-        # signature generation algorithm is reverse engineered from signatureGenerator in
-        # webpack:///../shared/~/vice-player/dist/js/vice-player.js in
-        # https://www.viceland.com/assets/common/js/web.vendor.bundle.js
-        exp = int(time.time()) + 14400
-        query.update({
-            'exp': exp,
-            'sign': hashlib.sha512(('%s:GET:%d' % (video_id, exp)).encode()).hexdigest(),
-        })
-
-        try:
-            host = 'www.viceland' if is_locked else self._PREPLAY_HOST
-            preplay = self._download_json(
-                'https://%s.com/%s/preplay/%s' % (host, locale, video_id),
-                video_id, query=query)
-        except ExtractorError as e:
-            if isinstance(e.cause, compat_HTTPError) and e.cause.code == 400:
-                error = json.loads(e.cause.read().decode())
-                raise ExtractorError('%s said: %s' % (
-                    self.IE_NAME, error['details']), expected=True)
-            raise
-
-        video_data = preplay['video']
-        base = video_data['base']
-        uplynk_preplay_url = preplay['preplayURL']
-        episode = video_data.get('episode', {})
-        channel = video_data.get('channel', {})
-
-        subtitles = {}
-        cc_url = preplay.get('ccURL')
-        if cc_url:
-            subtitles['en'] = [{
-                'url': cc_url,
-            }]
-
-        return {
-            '_type': 'url_transparent',
-            'url': uplynk_preplay_url,
-            'id': video_id,
-            'title': title,
-            'description': base.get('body') or base.get('display_body'),
-            'thumbnail': watch_hub_data.get('cover-image') or watch_hub_data.get('thumbnail'),
-            'duration': int_or_none(video_data.get('video_duration')) or parse_duration(watch_hub_data.get('video-duration')),
-            'timestamp': int_or_none(video_data.get('created_at'), 1000),
-            'age_limit': parse_age_limit(video_data.get('video_rating')),
-            'series': video_data.get('show_title') or watch_hub_data.get('show-title'),
-            'episode_number': int_or_none(episode.get('episode_number') or watch_hub_data.get('episode')),
-            'episode_id': str_or_none(episode.get('id') or video_data.get('episode_id')),
-            'season_number': int_or_none(watch_hub_data.get('season')),
-            'season_id': str_or_none(episode.get('season_id')),
-            'uploader': channel.get('base', {}).get('title') or watch_hub_data.get('channel-title'),
-            'uploader_id': str_or_none(channel.get('id')),
-            'subtitles': subtitles,
-            'ie_key': 'UplynkPreplay',
-        }
+class ViceBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
+    def _call_api(self, resource, resource_key, resource_id, locale, fields, args=''):
+        return self._download_json(
+            'https://video.vice.com/api/v1/graphql', resource_id, query={
+                'query': '''{
+  %s(locale: "%s", %s: "%s"%s) {
+    %s
+  }
+}''' % (resource, locale, resource_key, resource_id, args, fields),
+            })['data'][resource]