diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index e46698736e..f668f0f4a2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 
+from .archiveorg import ArchiveOrgIE
 from .ard import ARDIE
 from .arte import ArteTvIE
 from .auengine import AUEngineIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/archiveorg.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/archiveorg.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..29cb9bdee1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/archiveorg.py
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import json
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    determine_ext,
+    unified_strdate,
+)
+
+
+class ArchiveOrgIE(InfoExtractor):
+    IE_NAME = 'archive.org'
+    IE_DESC = 'archive.org videos'
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?archive.org/details/(?P<id>[^?/]+)(?:[?].*)?$'
+    _TEST = {
+        u"url": u"http://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCntAugHumanIntellect",
+        u'file': u'XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCntAugHumanIntellect.ogv',
+        u'md5': u'8af1d4cf447933ed3c7f4871162602db',
+        u'info_dict': {
+            u"title": u"1968 Demo - FJCC Conference Presentation Reel #1",
+            u"description": u"Reel 1 of 3: Also known as the \"Mother of All Demos\", Doug Engelbart's presentation at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, December 9, 1968 titled \"A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect.\" For this presentation, Doug and his team astonished the audience by not only relating their research, but demonstrating it live. This was the debut of the mouse, interactive computing, hypermedia, computer supported software engineering, video teleconferencing, etc. See also <a href=\"http://dougengelbart.org/firsts/dougs-1968-demo.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doug's 1968 Demo page</a> for more background, highlights, links, and the detailed paper published in this conference proceedings. Filmed on 3 reels: Reel 1 | <a href=\"http://www.archive.org/details/XD300-24_68HighlightsAResearchCntAugHumanIntellect\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reel 2</a> | <a href=\"http://www.archive.org/details/XD300-25_68HighlightsAResearchCntAugHumanIntellect\" rel=\"nofollow\">Reel 3</a>",
+            u"upload_date": u"19681210",
+            u"uploader": u"SRI International"
+        }
+    }
+
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+
+        json_url = url + (u'?' if u'?' in url else '&') + u'output=json'
+        json_data = self._download_webpage(json_url, video_id)
+        data = json.loads(json_data)
+
+        title = data['metadata']['title'][0]
+        description = data['metadata']['description'][0]
+        uploader = data['metadata']['creator'][0]
+        upload_date = unified_strdate(data['metadata']['date'][0])
+
+        formats = [{
+                'format': fdata['format'],
+                'url': 'http://' + data['server'] + data['dir'] + fn,
+                'file_size': int(fdata['size']),
+            }
+            for fn,fdata in data['files'].items()
+            if 'Video' in fdata['format']]
+        formats.sort(key=lambda fdata: fdata['file_size'])
+
+        info = {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'formats': formats,
+            'description': description,
+            'uploader': uploader,
+            'upload_date': upload_date,
+        }
+        thumbnail = data.get('misc', {}).get('image')
+        if thumbnail:
+            info['thumbnail'] = thumbnail
+
+        # TODO: Remove when #980 has been merged
+        info['url'] = formats[-1]['url']
+        info['ext'] = determine_ext(formats[-1]['url'])
+
+        return self.video_result(info)
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