Add BrightcoveIE (closes #832)

It only accepts the urls that are use for embedding the video, it doesn't search in generic webpages to find Brightcove videos

2 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 41efc57d4..ff5cbf4c9 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from .auengine import AUEngineIE
 from .bandcamp import BandcampIE
 from .bliptv import BlipTVIE, BlipTVUserIE
 from .breakcom import BreakIE
+from .brightcove import BrightcoveIE
 from .collegehumor import CollegeHumorIE
 from .comedycentral import ComedyCentralIE
 from .cspan import CSpanIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f85acbb5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import re
+import json
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'http://.*brightcove\.com/.*\?(?P<query>.*videoPlayer=(?P<id>\d*).*)'
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        query = mobj.group('query')
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+
+        request_url = 'http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/htmlFederated?%s' % query
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(request_url, video_id)
+
+        self.report_extraction(video_id)
+        info = self._search_regex(r'var experienceJSON = ({.*?});', webpage, 'json')
+        info = json.loads(info)['data']
+        video_info = info['programmedContent']['videoPlayer']['mediaDTO']
+        renditions = video_info['renditions']
+        renditions = sorted(renditions, key=lambda r: r['size'])
+        best_format = renditions[-1]
+        
+        return {'id': video_id,
+                'title': video_info['displayName'],
+                'url': best_format['defaultURL'], 
+                'ext': 'mp4',
+                'description': video_info.get('shortDescription'),
+                'thumbnail': video_info.get('videoStillURL') or video_info.get('thumbnailURL'),
+                'uploader': video_info.get('publisherName'),
+                }