1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/sockshare.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/sockshare.py
index c663e56d4..7d3c0e937 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/sockshare.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/sockshare.py
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from ..utils import (
-    ExtractorError,
+import re
+
+from ..compat import (
     compat_urllib_parse,
     compat_urllib_request,
+)
+from ..utils import (
     determine_ext,
+    ExtractorError,
 )
-import re
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 
@@ -27,9 +30,7 @@ class SockshareIE(InfoExtractor):
     }
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
-        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        video_id = mobj.group('id')
-
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
         url = 'http://sockshare.com/file/%s' % video_id
         webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)