diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index eeeb3db502..ea2af0d0e6 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from .c56 import C56IE
 from .canalplus import CanalplusIE
 from .canalc2 import Canalc2IE
+from .cnn import CNNIE
 from .collegehumor import CollegeHumorIE
 from .comedycentral import ComedyCentralIE
 from .condenast import CondeNastIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/cnn.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/cnn.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cee78765b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/cnn.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import re
+import xml.etree.ElementTree
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import determine_ext
+
+class CNNIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(edition\.)?cnn\.com/video/(data/.+?|\?)/(?P<path>.+?/(?P<title>[^/]+?)\.cnn)'
+
+    _TEST = {
+        u'url': u'http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/sports/2013/06/09/nadal-1-on-1.cnn',
+        u'file': u'sports_2013_06_09_nadal-1-on-1.cnn.mp4',
+        u'md5': u'3e6121ea48df7e2259fe73a0628605c4',
+        u'info_dict': {
+            u'title': u'Nadal wins 8th French Open title',
+            u'description': u'World Sport\'s Amanda Davies chats with 2013 French Open champion Rafael Nadal.',
+        },
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        path = mobj.group('path')
+        page_title = mobj.group('title')
+        info_xml = self._download_webpage(
+            'http://cnn.com/video/data/3.0/%s/index.xml' % path, page_title)
+        info = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(info_xml.encode('utf-8'))
+
+        formats = []
+        for f in info.findall('files/file'):
+            mf = re.match(r'(\d+)x(\d+)(?:_(.*)k)?',f.attrib['bitrate'])
+            if mf is not None:
+                formats.append((int(mf.group(1)), int(mf.group(2)), int(mf.group(3) or 0), f.text))
+        formats = sorted(formats)
+        (_,_,_, video_path) = formats[-1]
+        video_url = 'http://ht.cdn.turner.com/cnn/big%s' % video_path
+
+        thumbnails = sorted([((int(t.attrib['height']),int(t.attrib['width'])), t.text) for t in info.findall('images/image')])
+        thumbs_dict = [{'resolution': res, 'url': t_url} for (res, t_url) in thumbnails]
+
+        return {'id': info.attrib['id'],
+                'title': info.find('headline').text,
+                'url': video_url,
+                'ext': determine_ext(video_url),
+                'thumbnail': thumbnails[-1][1],
+                'thumbnails': thumbs_dict,
+                'description': info.find('description').text,
+                }