-        title = self._html_search_regex(r'<h1 class="title">([^<]+)</h1>', webpage, 'title')
-        ul = self._search_regex(r'(?s)<ul class="series-lessons-list">(.*?)</ul>', webpage, 'session list')
+        course = self._download_json(
+            'https://egghead.io/api/v1/series/%s' % playlist_id, playlist_id)
+
+        entries = [
+            self.url_result(
+                'wistia:%s' % lesson['wistia_id'], ie='Wistia',
+                video_id=lesson['wistia_id'], video_title=lesson.get('title'))
+            for lesson in course['lessons'] if lesson.get('wistia_id')]
+
+        return self.playlist_result(
+            entries, playlist_id, course.get('title'),
+            course.get('description'))
+
+
+class EggheadLessonIE(InfoExtractor):
+    IE_DESC = 'egghead.io lesson'
+    IE_NAME = 'egghead:lesson'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https://egghead\.io/lessons/(?P<id>[^/?#&]+)'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'https://egghead.io/lessons/javascript-linear-data-flow-with-container-style-types-box',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'fv5yotjxcg',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Create linear data flow with container style types (Box)',
+            'description': 'md5:9aa2cdb6f9878ed4c39ec09e85a8150e',
+            'thumbnail': r're:^https?:.*\.jpg$',
+            'timestamp': 1481296768,
+            'upload_date': '20161209',
+            'duration': 304,
+            'view_count': 0,
+            'tags': ['javascript', 'free'],
+        },
+        'params': {
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        lesson_id = self._match_id(url)