diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 74b7df463..aebd6029a 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ from .fc2 import FC2IE
 from .firstpost import FirstpostIE
 from .firsttv import FirstTVIE
 from .fivemin import FiveMinIE
+from .fivethirtyeight import FivethirtyeightIE
 from .fivetv import FiveTVIE
 from .fktv import (
     FKTVIE,
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/fivethirtyeight.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/fivethirtyeight.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..574974292
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/fivethirtyeight.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from youtube_dl.compat import compat_urllib_request
+from youtube_dl import utils
+
+
+class FivethirtyeightIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'http://fivethirtyeight\.com/.+'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/rage-against-the-machines/',
+        'md5': 'c825a057981316c4d4444fefea35a108',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '11694550',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Rage Against The Machines',
+            'description': 'This is an excerpted chapter from “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t” by Nate Silver, editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight. …',
+            'duration': 1037,
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, 'video_id')
+        video_id = self._html_search_regex(r'.*data-video-id=\'(.*)\' data-cms.*', webpage, 'video_id')
+        title = self._html_search_regex(r'<title>(.*)\s*\|', webpage, 'title')
+
+        data = self._download_json(
+            'http://espn.go.com/videohub/video/util/getMinifiedClipJsonById?id=%s&cms=espn&device=mobile&omniReportSuite=wdgespvideo,wdgespfivethirtyeight,wdgespge&xhr=1' % video_id, video_id)
+
+        url = data["videos"][0]["links"]["mobile"]["href"]
+
+        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
+        request.add_header('User-Agent', 'ipad')
+
+        formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(request, 'display_id', 'mp4')
+
+        formats[0]["url"] = request.get_full_url()
+
+        for idx, val in enumerate(formats):
+            formats[idx]["url"] = formats[idx]["url"].replace('adsegmentlength=5', 'adsegmentlength=0')
+
+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'formats': formats,
+            'description': self._html_search_meta('description', webpage, default=None),
+            'thumbnail': data["videos"][0]["posterImages"]["full"]["href"],
+            'duration': utils.parse_duration(self._search_regex('mediaLength=(\d\d%3A\d\d%3A\d\d)&', data["videos"][0]["links"]["mobile"]["omniHref"], 'duration').replace('%3A', ':')),
+        }