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+import re
+import xml.etree.ElementTree
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import find_xpath_attr, compat_str
+
+
+class NBCNewsIE(InfoExtractor):
+ _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.nbcnews\.com/video/.+?/(?P<id>\d+)'
+
+ _TEST = {
+ u'url': u'http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/52753292',
+ u'file': u'52753292.flv',
+ u'md5': u'47abaac93c6eaf9ad37ee6c4463a5179',
+ u'info_dict': {
+ u'title': u'Crew emerges after four-month Mars food study',
+ u'description': u'md5:24e632ffac72b35f8b67a12d1b6ddfc1',
+ },
+ }
+
+ def _real_extract(self, url):
+ mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+ video_id = mobj.group('id')
+ info_xml = self._download_webpage('http://www.nbcnews.com/id/%s/displaymode/1219' % video_id, video_id)
+ info = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(info_xml.encode('utf-8')).find('video')
+
+ return {'id': video_id,
+ 'title': info.find('headline').text,
+ 'ext': 'flv',
+ 'url': find_xpath_attr(info, 'media', 'type', 'flashVideo').text,
+ 'description': compat_str(info.find('caption').text),
+ 'thumbnail': find_xpath_attr(info, 'media', 'type', 'thumbnail').text,
+ }