--- /dev/null
+# coding: utf-8
+
+import re
+import xml.etree.ElementTree
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+ compat_urllib_request,
+ compat_urllib_parse,
+)
+
+
+class SinaIE(InfoExtractor):
+ _VALID_URL = r'''https?://(.*?\.)?video\.sina\.com\.cn/
+ (
+ (.+?/(((?P<pseudo_id>\d+).html)|(.*?(\#|(vid=))(?P<id>\d+?)($|&))))
+ |
+ # This is used by external sites like Weibo
+ (api/sinawebApi/outplay.php/(?P<token>.+?)\.swf)
+ )
+ '''
+
+ _TEST = {
+ u'url': u'http://video.sina.com.cn/news/vlist/zt/chczlj2013/?opsubject_id=top12#110028898',
+ u'file': u'110028898.flv',
+ u'md5': u'd65dd22ddcf44e38ce2bf58a10c3e71f',
+ u'info_dict': {
+ u'title': u'《中国新闻》 朝鲜要求巴拿马立即释放被扣船员',
+ }
+ }
+
+ @classmethod
+ def suitable(cls, url):
+ return re.match(cls._VALID_URL, url, flags=re.VERBOSE) is not None
+
+ def _extract_video(self, video_id):
+ data = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({'vid': video_id})
+ url_page = self._download_webpage('http://v.iask.com/v_play.php?%s' % data,
+ video_id, u'Downloading video url')
+ image_page = self._download_webpage(
+ 'http://interface.video.sina.com.cn/interface/common/getVideoImage.php?%s' % data,
+ video_id, u'Downloading thumbnail info')
+ url_doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(url_page.encode('utf-8'))
+
+ return {'id': video_id,
+ 'url': url_doc.find('./durl/url').text,
+ 'ext': 'flv',
+ 'title': url_doc.find('./vname').text,
+ 'thumbnail': image_page.split('=')[1],
+ }
+
+ def _real_extract(self, url):
+ mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url, flags=re.VERBOSE)
+ video_id = mobj.group('id')
+ if mobj.group('token') is not None:
+ # The video id is in the redirected url
+ self.to_screen(u'Getting video id')
+ request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
+ request.get_method = lambda: 'HEAD'
+ (_, urlh) = self._download_webpage_handle(request, 'NA', False)
+ return self._real_extract(urlh.geturl())
+ elif video_id is None:
+ pseudo_id = mobj.group('pseudo_id')
+ webpage = self._download_webpage(url, pseudo_id)
+ video_id = self._search_regex(r'vid:\'(\d+?)\'', webpage, u'video id')
+
+ return self._extract_video(video_id)