+        patterns_templates = (r'arte_vp_url=["\'](.*?%s.*?)["\']', r'data-url=["\']([^"]+%s[^"]+)["\']')
+        ids = (video_id, '')
+        # some pages contain multiple videos (like
+        # http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/sendungen/XEN/xenius/?vid=055918-015_PLUS7-D),
+        # so we first try to look for json URLs that contain the video id from
+        # the 'vid' parameter.
+        patterns = [t % re.escape(_id) for _id in ids for t in patterns_templates]
+        json_url = self._html_search_regex(
+            patterns, webpage, 'json vp url', default=None)
+        if not json_url:
+            def find_iframe_url(webpage, default=NO_DEFAULT):
+                return self._html_search_regex(
+                    r'<iframe[^>]+src=(["\'])(?P<url>.+\bjson_url=.+?)\1',
+                    webpage, 'iframe url', group='url', default=default)
+
+            iframe_url = find_iframe_url(webpage, None)
+            if not iframe_url:
+                embed_url = self._html_search_regex(
+                    r'arte_vp_url_oembed=\'([^\']+?)\'', webpage, 'embed url', default=None)
+                if embed_url:
+                    player = self._download_json(
+                        embed_url, video_id, 'Downloading player page')
+                    iframe_url = find_iframe_url(player['html'])
+            # en and es URLs produce react-based pages with different layout (e.g.
+            # http://www.arte.tv/guide/en/053330-002-A/carnival-italy?zone=world)
+            if not iframe_url:
+                program = self._search_regex(
+                    r'program\s*:\s*({.+?["\']embed_html["\'].+?}),?\s*\n',
+                    webpage, 'program', default=None)
+                if program:
+                    embed_html = self._parse_json(program, video_id)
+                    if embed_html:
+                        iframe_url = find_iframe_url(embed_html['embed_html'])
+            if iframe_url:
+                json_url = compat_parse_qs(
+                    compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(iframe_url).query)['json_url'][0]
+        if json_url:
+            return self._extract_from_json_url(json_url, video_id, lang)
+        # Differend kind of embed URL (e.g.
+        # http://www.arte.tv/magazine/trepalium/fr/episode-0406-replay-trepalium)
+        embed_url = self._search_regex(
+            r'<iframe[^>]+src=(["\'])(?P<url>.+?)\1',
+            webpage, 'embed url', group='url')
+        return self.url_result(embed_url)