diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 7f2f8806e1..7de9d594a3 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from .academicearth import AcademicEarthCourseIE
 from .addanime import AddAnimeIE
 from .anitube import AnitubeIE
+from .aparat import AparatIE
 from .appletrailers import AppleTrailersIE
 from .archiveorg import ArchiveOrgIE
 from .ard import ARDIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/aparat.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/aparat.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7e93bc4df2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/aparat.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#coding: utf-8
+
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    ExtractorError,
+    HEADRequest,
+)
+
+
+class AparatIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'^https?://(?:www\.)?aparat\.com/(?:v/|video/video/embed/videohash/)(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9]+)'
+
+    _TEST = {
+        u'url': u'http://www.aparat.com/v/wP8On',
+        u'file': u'wP8On.mp4',
+        u'md5': u'6714e0af7e0d875c5a39c4dc4ab46ad1',
+        u'info_dict': {
+            u"title": u"تیم گلکسی 11 - زومیت",
+        },
+        #u'skip': u'Extremely unreliable',
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        m = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = m.group('id')
+
+        # Note: There is an easier-to-parse configuration at
+        # http://www.aparat.com/video/video/config/videohash/%video_id
+        # but the URL in there does not work
+        embed_url = (u'http://www.aparat.com/video/video/embed/videohash/' +
+                     video_id + u'/vt/frame')
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(embed_url, video_id)
+
+        video_urls = re.findall(r'fileList\[[0-9]+\]\s*=\s*"([^"]+)"', webpage)
+        for i, video_url in enumerate(video_urls):
+            req = HEADRequest(video_url)
+            res = self._request_webpage(
+                req, video_id, note=u'Testing video URL %d' % i, errnote=False)
+            if res:
+                break
+        else:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'No working video URLs found')
+
+        title = self._search_regex(r'\s+title:\s*"([^"]+)"', webpage, u'title')
+        thumbnail = self._search_regex(
+            r'\s+image:\s*"([^"]+)"', webpage, u'thumbnail', fatal=False)
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'url': video_url,
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+        }
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
index f89df57edb..ba46a7bc77 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
         try:
             return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
+            if errnote is False:
+                return False
             if errnote is None:
                 errnote = u'Unable to download webpage'
             errmsg = u'%s: %s' % (errnote, compat_str(err))
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 75cb96eb71..bdb4f58d6e 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from ..utils import (
     compat_urlparse,
 
     ExtractorError,
+    HEADRequest,
     smuggle_url,
     unescapeHTML,
     unified_strdate,
@@ -109,21 +110,18 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _send_head(self, url):
         """Check if it is a redirect, like url shorteners, in case return the new url."""
-        class HeadRequest(compat_urllib_request.Request):
-            def get_method(self):
-                return "HEAD"
 
         class HEADRedirectHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPRedirectHandler):
             """
             Subclass the HTTPRedirectHandler to make it use our
-            HeadRequest also on the redirected URL
+            HEADRequest also on the redirected URL
             """
             def redirect_request(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers, newurl):
                 if code in (301, 302, 303, 307):
                     newurl = newurl.replace(' ', '%20')
                     newheaders = dict((k,v) for k,v in req.headers.items()
                                       if k.lower() not in ("content-length", "content-type"))
-                    return HeadRequest(newurl,
+                    return HEADRequest(newurl,
                                        headers=newheaders,
                                        origin_req_host=req.get_origin_req_host(),
                                        unverifiable=True)
@@ -152,7 +150,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                         compat_urllib_request.HTTPErrorProcessor, compat_urllib_request.HTTPSHandler]:
             opener.add_handler(handler())
 
-        response = opener.open(HeadRequest(url))
+        response = opener.open(HEADRequest(url))
         if response is None:
             raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL protocol')
         return response
@@ -296,6 +294,11 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
         if mobj is not None:
             return OoyalaIE._build_url_result(mobj.group(1))
 
+        # Look for Aparat videos
+        mobj = re.search(r'<iframe src="(http://www.aparat.com/video/[^"]+)"', webpage)
+        if mobj is not None:
+            return self.url_result(mobj.group(1), 'Aparat')
+
         # Start with something easy: JW Player in SWFObject
         mobj = re.search(r'flashvars: [\'"](?:.*&)?file=(http[^\'"&]*)', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index cc391bddd7..2e48f187e6 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1093,3 +1093,8 @@ def remove_start(s, start):
 def url_basename(url):
     path = compat_urlparse.urlparse(url).path
     return path.strip(u'/').split(u'/')[-1]
+
+
+class HEADRequest(compat_urllib_request.Request):
+    def get_method(self):
+        return "HEAD"