diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
index f013d13c3..8a94b82cd 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -1330,6 +1330,7 @@ from .voxmedia import (
     VoxMediaIE,
 )
 from .vporn import VpornIE
+from .vpro import Vpro3Voor12IE
 from .vrt import VRTIE
 from .vrak import VrakIE
 from .vrv import (
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/vpro.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/vpro.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..892cd4ccb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/vpro.py
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import base64
+import datetime
+import hashlib
+import hmac
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    strip_or_none,
+    get_element_by_class,
+)
+
+class Vpro3Voor12IE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https://3voor12.vpro.nl/speel~(?P<id>\w+)~'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'https://3voor12.vpro.nl/speel~WO_VPRO_575949~the-veils-live-op-down-the-rabbit-hole-2014~.html',
+        'md5': '5514d8703a03e6443f0aa8f2e6400810',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'WO_VPRO_575949',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'The Veils live op Down The Rabbit Hole 2014',
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _get_server_config(self, content):
+        return dict(
+            re.findall(
+                r'(apiKey|apiSecret|locationApiKey|locationApiSecret|vpronlApiKey|vpronlSecret): "(\w+)"',
+                content,
+                re.MULTILINE,
+            )
+        )
+
+    def _get_credentials(self, vpronl_secret, x_npo_date, x_npo_mid=None, x_npo_url=None):
+        msg = 'origin:https://3voor12.vpro.nl'
+        if x_npo_date:
+            msg += ',x-npo-date:' + x_npo_date
+        if x_npo_url:
+            msg += ',x-npo-url:' + x_npo_url
+        if x_npo_mid:
+            msg += ',uri:/v1/api/media/%s' % x_npo_mid
+        a = hmac.new(vpronl_secret.encode(), msg.encode(), hashlib.sha256)
+        return base64.b64encode(a.digest()).decode('utf-8')
+
+    def _get_authorization(self, api_key, api_secret, x_npo_date, x_npo_mid=None, x_npo_url=None):
+        return 'NPO %s:%s' % (api_key, self._get_credentials(api_secret, x_npo_date, x_npo_mid, x_npo_url))
+
+    def _get_media(self, html_url, vpronl_api_key, vpronl_secret, x_npo_date, x_npo_mid):
+        headers = {
+            'Accept': 'application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01',
+            'Authorization': self._get_authorization(
+                vpronl_api_key, vpronl_secret, x_npo_date, x_npo_mid
+            ),
+            'Origin': 'https://3voor12.vpro.nl',
+            'Referer': html_url,
+            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Safari/605.1.15',
+            'x-npo-date': x_npo_date,
+        }
+
+        return self._download_json(
+            'https://rs.poms.omroep.nl/v1/api/media/%s' % x_npo_mid,
+            note='Downloading JSON media metadata',
+            video_id=x_npo_mid,
+            headers=headers,
+        )
+
+    def _get_protected_location(self, html_url, video_id, api_key, api_secret, x_npo_date, x_npo_url):
+        headers = {
+            'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
+            'Accept': 'application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01',
+            'Authorization': self._get_authorization(
+                api_key, api_secret, x_npo_date, x_npo_url=x_npo_url
+            ),
+            'Origin': 'https://3voor12.vpro.nl',
+            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Safari/605.1.15',
+            'Referer': html_url,
+            'x-npo-date': x_npo_date,
+            'x-npo-url': x_npo_url,
+        }
+
+        data = x_npo_url.encode()
+
+        response = self._download_json(
+            'https://rs.vpro.nl/v3/api/locations?plainText=true',
+            video_id,
+            note='Downloading JSON media location metadata',
+            headers=headers,
+            data=data,
+        )
+        return response['programUrl']
+
+    def _get_mp4_location(self, locations):
+        for loc in locations:
+            try:
+                if loc['avAttributes']['avFileFormat'] == 'MP4':
+                    return loc['programUrl']
+            except KeyError:
+                raise
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        server_config = self._get_server_config(webpage)
+        x_npo_date = datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT')
+
+        locations = self._get_media(
+            url,
+            vpronl_api_key=server_config['vpronlApiKey'],
+            vpronl_secret=server_config['vpronlSecret'],
+            x_npo_date=x_npo_date,
+            x_npo_mid=video_id,
+        )['locations']
+
+        mp4_url = self._get_mp4_location(locations)
+
+        protected_url = self._get_protected_location(
+            url,
+            video_id,
+            api_key=server_config['locationApiKey'],
+            api_secret=server_config['locationApiSecret'],
+            x_npo_date=x_npo_date,
+            x_npo_url=mp4_url,
+        )
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': (self._og_search_title(webpage) or
+                      strip_or_none(get_element_by_class('media-platform-subtitle', webpage))),
+            'url': protected_url,
+        }