+    def _add_akamai_spe_token(self, tokenizer_src, video_url, content_id, ap_data):
+        secure_path = self._search_regex(r'https?://[^/]+(.+/)', video_url, 'secure path') + '*'
+        token = self._AKAMAI_SPE_TOKEN_CACHE.get(secure_path)
+        if not token:
+            query = {
+                'path': secure_path,
+                'videoId': content_id,
+            }
+            if ap_data.get('auth_required'):
+                query['accessToken'] = self._extract_mvpd_auth(ap_data['url'], content_id, ap_data['site_name'], ap_data['site_name'])
+            auth = self._download_xml(
+                tokenizer_src, content_id, query=query)
+            error_msg = xpath_text(auth, 'error/msg')
+            if error_msg:
+                raise ExtractorError(error_msg, expected=True)
+            token = xpath_text(auth, 'token')
+            if not token:
+                return video_url
+            self._AKAMAI_SPE_TOKEN_CACHE[secure_path] = token
+        return video_url + '?hdnea=' + token
+