--- /dev/null
+# encoding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+from ..utils import (
+ determine_ext,
+ parse_iso8601,
+ xpath_text,
+)
+
+
+class NerdistIE(InfoExtractor):
+ _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?nerdist\.com/vepisode/(?P<id>[^/?#]+)'
+ _TEST = {
+ 'url': 'http://www.nerdist.com/vepisode/exclusive-which-dc-characters-w',
+ 'md5': '3698ed582931b90d9e81e02e26e89f23',
+ 'info_dict': {
+ 'display_id': 'exclusive-which-dc-characters-w',
+ 'id': 'RPHpvJyr',
+ 'ext': 'mp4',
+ 'title': 'Your TEEN TITANS Revealed! Who\'s on the show?',
+ 'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*/thumbs/.*\.jpg$',
+ 'description': 'Exclusive: Find out which DC Comics superheroes will star in TEEN TITANS Live-Action TV Show on Nerdist News with Jessica Chobot!',
+ 'uploader': 'Eric Diaz',
+ 'upload_date': '20150202',
+ 'timestamp': 1422892808,
+ }
+ }
+
+ def _real_extract(self, url):
+ display_id = self._match_id(url)
+ webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id)
+
+ video_id = self._search_regex(
+ r'''(?x)<script\s+(?:type="text/javascript"\s+)?
+ src="https?://content\.nerdist\.com/players/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)-''',
+ webpage, 'video ID')
+ timestamp = parse_iso8601(self._html_search_meta(
+ 'shareaholic:article_published_time', webpage, 'upload date'))
+ uploader = self._html_search_meta(
+ 'shareaholic:article_author_name', webpage, 'article author')
+
+ doc = self._download_xml(
+ 'http://content.nerdist.com/jw6/%s.xml' % video_id, video_id)
+ video_info = doc.find('.//item')
+ title = xpath_text(video_info, './title', fatal=True)
+ description = xpath_text(video_info, './description')
+ thumbnail = xpath_text(
+ video_info, './{http://rss.jwpcdn.com/}image', 'thumbnail')
+
+ formats = []
+ for source in video_info.findall('./{http://rss.jwpcdn.com/}source'):
+ vurl = source.attrib['file']
+ ext = determine_ext(vurl)
+ if ext == 'm3u8':
+ formats.extend(self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+ vurl, video_id, entry_protocol='m3u8_native', ext='mp4',
+ preference=0))
+ elif ext == 'smil':
+ formats.extend(self._extract_smil_formats(
+ vurl, video_id, fatal=False
+ ))
+ else:
+ formats.append({
+ 'format_id': ext,
+ 'url': vurl,
+ })
+ self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+ return {
+ 'id': video_id,
+ 'display_id': display_id,
+ 'title': title,
+ 'description': description,
+ 'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+ 'timestamp': timestamp,
+ 'formats': formats,
+ 'uploader': uploader,
+ }