X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/index.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=youtube_dl%2FInfoExtractors.py;h=ec52cbcff433ea0d75cd02a9b7343f83af07e99b;hb=b08980412eb05250100f95bf2c2c8bb764c4b4c5;hp=eeedcf792b74dafd275bffb27ca21f5e8f98f387;hpb=93412126422b1324e920dc5097ee57c3ad11371b;p=youtube-dl

diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index eeedcf792..ec52cbcff 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -114,9 +114,9 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
     def _request_webpage(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None):
         """ Returns the response handle """
         if note is None:
-            note = u'Downloading video webpage'
-        if note is not False:
-            self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: %s' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id, note))
+            self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
+        elif note is not False:
+            self.to_screen(u'%s: %s' % (video_id, note))
         try:
             return compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url_or_request)
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                 errnote = u'Unable to download webpage'
             raise ExtractorError(u'%s: %s' % (errnote, compat_str(err)), sys.exc_info()[2])
 
-    def _download_webpage(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None):
-        """ Returns the data of the page as a string """
+    def _download_webpage_handle(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None):
+        """ Returns a tuple (page content as string, URL handle) """
         urlh = self._request_webpage(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote)
         content_type = urlh.headers.get('Content-Type', '')
         m = re.match(r'[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+/[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+\s*;\s*charset=(.+)', content_type)
@@ -139,11 +139,32 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
                 url = url_or_request.get_full_url()
             except AttributeError:
                 url = url_or_request
-            self._downloader.to_screen(u'Dumping request to ' + url)
+            self.to_screen(u'Dumping request to ' + url)
             dump = base64.b64encode(webpage_bytes).decode('ascii')
             self._downloader.to_screen(dump)
-        return webpage_bytes.decode(encoding, 'replace')
-        
+        content = webpage_bytes.decode(encoding, 'replace')
+        return (content, urlh)
+
+    def _download_webpage(self, url_or_request, video_id, note=None, errnote=None):
+        """ Returns the data of the page as a string """
+        return self._download_webpage_handle(url_or_request, video_id, note, errnote)[0]
+
+    def to_screen(self, msg):
+        """Print msg to screen, prefixing it with '[ie_name]'"""
+        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s' % (self.IE_NAME, msg))
+
+    def report_extraction(self, id_or_name):
+        """Report information extraction."""
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Extracting information' % id_or_name)
+
+    def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
+        """Report webpage download."""
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
+
+    def report_age_confirmation(self):
+        """Report attempt to confirm age."""
+        self.to_screen(u'Confirming age')
+
     #Methods for following #608
     #They set the correct value of the '_type' key
     def video_result(self, video_info):
@@ -154,7 +175,8 @@ class InfoExtractor(object):
         """Returns a url that points to a page that should be processed"""
         #TODO: ie should be the class used for getting the info
         video_info = {'_type': 'url',
-                      'url': url}
+                      'url': url,
+                      'ie_key': ie}
         return video_info
     def playlist_result(self, entries, playlist_id=None, playlist_title=None):
         """Returns a playlist"""
@@ -189,7 +211,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                      ([0-9A-Za-z_-]+)                                         # here is it! the YouTube video ID
                      (?(1).+)?                                                # if we found the ID, everything can follow
                      $"""
-    _LANG_URL = r'http://www.youtube.com/?hl=en&persist_hl=1&gl=US&persist_gl=1&opt_out_ackd=1'
+    _LANG_URL = r'https://www.youtube.com/?hl=en&persist_hl=1&gl=US&persist_gl=1&opt_out_ackd=1'
     _LOGIN_URL = 'https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin'
     _AGE_URL = 'http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/&gl=US&hl=en'
     _NEXT_URL_RE = r'[\?&]next_url=([^&]+)'
@@ -235,48 +257,44 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def report_lang(self):
         """Report attempt to set language."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] Setting language')
+        self.to_screen(u'Setting language')
 
     def report_login(self):
         """Report attempt to log in."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] Logging in')
-
-    def report_age_confirmation(self):
-        """Report attempt to confirm age."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] Confirming age')
+        self.to_screen(u'Logging in')
 
     def report_video_webpage_download(self, video_id):
         """Report attempt to download video webpage."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video webpage' % video_id)
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Downloading video webpage' % video_id)
 
     def report_video_info_webpage_download(self, video_id):
         """Report attempt to download video info webpage."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video info webpage' % video_id)
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Downloading video info webpage' % video_id)
 
     def report_video_subtitles_download(self, video_id):
         """Report attempt to download video info webpage."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Checking available subtitles' % video_id)
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Checking available subtitles' % video_id)
 
     def report_video_subtitles_request(self, video_id, sub_lang, format):
         """Report attempt to download video info webpage."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Downloading video subtitles for %s.%s' % (video_id, sub_lang, format))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Downloading video subtitles for %s.%s' % (video_id, sub_lang, format))
 
     def report_video_subtitles_available(self, video_id, sub_lang_list):
         """Report available subtitles."""
         sub_lang = ",".join(list(sub_lang_list.keys()))
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Available subtitles for video: %s' % (video_id, sub_lang))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Available subtitles for video: %s' % (video_id, sub_lang))
 
     def report_information_extraction(self, video_id):
         """Report attempt to extract video information."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Extracting video information' % video_id)
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Extracting video information' % video_id)
 
     def report_unavailable_format(self, video_id, format):
         """Report extracted video URL."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] %s: Format %s not available' % (video_id, format))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Format %s not available' % (video_id, format))
 
     def report_rtmp_download(self):
         """Indicate the download will use the RTMP protocol."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] RTMP download detected')
+        self.to_screen(u'RTMP download detected')
 
     def _get_available_subtitles(self, video_id):
         self.report_video_subtitles_download(video_id)
@@ -409,7 +427,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         # Log in
         login_form_strs = {
-                u'continue': u'http://www.youtube.com/signin?action_handle_signin=true&feature=sign_in_button&hl=en_US&nomobiletemp=1',
+                u'continue': u'https://www.youtube.com/signin?action_handle_signin=true&feature=sign_in_button&hl=en_US&nomobiletemp=1',
                 u'Email': username,
                 u'GALX': galx,
                 u'Passwd': password,
@@ -454,14 +472,12 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
             self.report_age_confirmation()
             age_results = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to confirm age: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to confirm age: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
     def _extract_id(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         video_id = mobj.group(2)
         return video_id
 
@@ -469,18 +485,17 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
         # Extract original video URL from URL with redirection, like age verification, using next_url parameter
         mobj = re.search(self._NEXT_URL_RE, url)
         if mobj:
-            url = 'http://www.youtube.com/' + compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group(1)).lstrip('/')
+            url = 'https://www.youtube.com/' + compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group(1)).lstrip('/')
         video_id = self._extract_id(url)
 
         # Get video webpage
         self.report_video_webpage_download(video_id)
-        url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1' % video_id
+        url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s&gl=US&hl=en&has_verified=1' % video_id
         request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
         try:
             video_webpage_bytes = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
         video_webpage = video_webpage_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
 
@@ -504,23 +519,20 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                 break
         if 'token' not in video_info:
             if 'reason' in video_info:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0])
+                raise ExtractorError(u'YouTube said: %s' % video_info['reason'][0])
             else:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'"token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason')
-            return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'"token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason')
 
         # Check for "rental" videos
         if 'ypc_video_rental_bar_text' in video_info and 'author' not in video_info:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'"rental" videos not supported')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'"rental" videos not supported')
 
         # Start extracting information
         self.report_information_extraction(video_id)
 
         # uploader
         if 'author' not in video_info:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract uploader name')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract uploader name')
         video_uploader = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(video_info['author'][0])
 
         # uploader_id
@@ -533,8 +545,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         # title
         if 'title' not in video_info:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video title')
         video_title = compat_urllib_parse.unquote_plus(video_info['title'][0])
 
         # thumbnail image
@@ -549,19 +560,18 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
         mobj = re.search(r'id="eow-date.*?>(.*?)</span>', video_webpage, re.DOTALL)
         if mobj is not None:
             upload_date = ' '.join(re.sub(r'[/,-]', r' ', mobj.group(1)).split())
-            format_expressions = ['%d %B %Y', '%B %d %Y', '%b %d %Y']
-            for expression in format_expressions:
-                try:
-                    upload_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(upload_date, expression).strftime('%Y%m%d')
-                except:
-                    pass
+            upload_date = unified_strdate(upload_date)
 
         # description
         video_description = get_element_by_id("eow-description", video_webpage)
         if video_description:
             video_description = clean_html(video_description)
         else:
-            video_description = ''
+            fd_mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="description" content="([^"]+)"', video_webpage)
+            if fd_mobj:
+                video_description = unescapeHTML(fd_mobj.group(1))
+            else:
+                video_description = u''
 
         # subtitles
         video_subtitles = None
@@ -600,10 +610,13 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
             self.report_rtmp_download()
             video_url_list = [(None, video_info['conn'][0])]
         elif 'url_encoded_fmt_stream_map' in video_info and len(video_info['url_encoded_fmt_stream_map']) >= 1:
-            url_data_strs = video_info['url_encoded_fmt_stream_map'][0].split(',')
-            url_data = [compat_parse_qs(uds) for uds in url_data_strs]
-            url_data = [ud for ud in url_data if 'itag' in ud and 'url' in ud]
-            url_map = dict((ud['itag'][0], ud['url'][0] + '&signature=' + ud['sig'][0]) for ud in url_data)
+            url_map = {}
+            for url_data_str in video_info['url_encoded_fmt_stream_map'][0].split(','):
+                url_data = compat_parse_qs(url_data_str)
+                if 'itag' in url_data and 'url' in url_data:
+                    url = url_data['url'][0] + '&signature=' + url_data['sig'][0]
+                    if not 'ratebypass' in url: url += '&ratebypass=yes'
+                    url_map[url_data['itag'][0]] = url
 
             format_limit = self._downloader.params.get('format_limit', None)
             available_formats = self._available_formats_prefer_free if self._downloader.params.get('prefer_free_formats', False) else self._available_formats
@@ -613,8 +626,7 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                 format_list = available_formats
             existing_formats = [x for x in format_list if x in url_map]
             if len(existing_formats) == 0:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'no known formats available for video')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'no known formats available for video')
             if self._downloader.params.get('listformats', None):
                 self._print_formats(existing_formats)
                 return
@@ -634,11 +646,9 @@ class YoutubeIE(InfoExtractor):
                         video_url_list = [(rf, url_map[rf])]
                         break
                 if video_url_list is None:
-                    self._downloader.report_error(u'requested format not available')
-                    return
+                    raise ExtractorError(u'requested format not available')
         else:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'no conn or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'no conn or url_encoded_fmt_stream_map information found in video info')
 
         results = []
         for format_param, video_real_url in video_url_list:
@@ -674,24 +684,9 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
     _FILTER_POST = 'http://www.metacafe.com/f/index.php?inputType=filter&controllerGroup=user'
     IE_NAME = u'metacafe'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
     def report_disclaimer(self):
         """Report disclaimer retrieval."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[metacafe] Retrieving disclaimer')
-
-    def report_age_confirmation(self):
-        """Report attempt to confirm age."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[metacafe] Confirming age')
-
-    def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
-        """Report webpage download."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[metacafe] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[metacafe] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+        self.to_screen(u'Retrieving disclaimer')
 
     def _real_initialize(self):
         # Retrieve disclaimer
@@ -700,8 +695,7 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
             self.report_disclaimer()
             disclaimer = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to retrieve disclaimer: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to retrieve disclaimer: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
         # Confirm age
         disclaimer_form = {
@@ -713,22 +707,20 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
             self.report_age_confirmation()
             disclaimer = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to confirm age: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to confirm age: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         # Extract id and simplified title from URL
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group(1)
 
         # Check if video comes from YouTube
         mobj2 = re.match(r'^yt-(.*)$', video_id)
         if mobj2 is not None:
-            return [self.url_result('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % mobj2.group(1))]
+            return [self.url_result('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % mobj2.group(1), 'Youtube')]
 
         # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
         webpage = self._download_webpage('http://www.metacafe.com/watch/%s/' % video_id, video_id)
@@ -750,30 +742,25 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
         else:
             mobj = re.search(r' name="flashvars" value="(.*?)"', webpage)
             if mobj is None:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract media URL')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
             vardict = compat_parse_qs(mobj.group(1))
             if 'mediaData' not in vardict:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract media URL')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
             mobj = re.search(r'"mediaURL":"(?P<mediaURL>http.*?)",(.*?)"key":"(?P<key>.*?)"', vardict['mediaData'][0])
             if mobj is None:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract media URL')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
             mediaURL = mobj.group('mediaURL').replace('\\/', '/')
             video_extension = mediaURL[-3:]
             video_url = '%s?__gda__=%s' % (mediaURL, mobj.group('key'))
 
         mobj = re.search(r'(?im)<title>(.*) - Video</title>', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
         video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
 
         mobj = re.search(r'submitter=(.*?);', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract uploader nickname')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract uploader nickname')
         video_uploader = mobj.group(1)
 
         return [{
@@ -785,27 +772,17 @@ class MetacafeIE(InfoExtractor):
             'ext':      video_extension.decode('utf-8'),
         }]
 
-
 class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
     """Information Extractor for Dailymotion"""
 
     _VALID_URL = r'(?i)(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?dailymotion\.[a-z]{2,3}/video/([^/]+)'
     IE_NAME = u'dailymotion'
-    _WORKING = False
-
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[dailymotion] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         # Extract id and simplified title from URL
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group(1).split('_')[0].split('?')[0]
 
@@ -820,23 +797,20 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
         self.report_extraction(video_id)
         mobj = re.search(r'\s*var flashvars = (.*)', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract media URL')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
         flashvars = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group(1))
 
         for key in ['hd1080URL', 'hd720URL', 'hqURL', 'sdURL', 'ldURL', 'video_url']:
             if key in flashvars:
                 max_quality = key
-                self._downloader.to_screen(u'[dailymotion] Using %s' % key)
+                self.to_screen(u'Using %s' % key)
                 break
         else:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video URL')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video URL')
 
         mobj = re.search(r'"' + max_quality + r'":"(.+?)"', flashvars)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video URL')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video URL')
 
         video_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group(1)).replace('\\/', '/')
 
@@ -844,8 +818,7 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         mobj = re.search(r'<meta property="og:title" content="(?P<title>[^"]*)" />', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
         video_title = unescapeHTML(mobj.group('title'))
 
         video_uploader = None
@@ -878,54 +851,52 @@ class DailymotionIE(InfoExtractor):
 class PhotobucketIE(InfoExtractor):
     """Information extractor for photobucket.com."""
 
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:[a-z0-9]+\.)?photobucket\.com/.*[\?\&]current=(.*\.flv)'
+    # TODO: the original _VALID_URL was:
+    # r'(?:http://)?(?:[a-z0-9]+\.)?photobucket\.com/.*[\?\&]current=(.*\.flv)'
+    # Check if it's necessary to keep the old extracion process
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:[a-z0-9]+\.)?photobucket\.com/.*(([\?\&]current=)|_)(?P<id>.*)\.(?P<ext>(flv)|(mp4))'
     IE_NAME = u'photobucket'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
-    def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
-        """Report webpage download."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[photobucket] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[photobucket] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         # Extract id from URL
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
-        video_id = mobj.group(1)
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
 
-        video_extension = 'flv'
+        video_extension = mobj.group('ext')
 
         # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
-        try:
-            self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
-            webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
 
         # Extract URL, uploader, and title from webpage
         self.report_extraction(video_id)
+        # We try first by looking the javascript code:
+        mobj = re.search(r'Pb\.Data\.Shared\.put\(Pb\.Data\.Shared\.MEDIA, (?P<json>.*?)\);', webpage)
+        if mobj is not None:
+            info = json.loads(mobj.group('json'))
+            return [{
+                'id':       video_id,
+                'url':      info[u'downloadUrl'],
+                'uploader': info[u'username'],
+                'upload_date':  datetime.date.fromtimestamp(info[u'creationDate']).strftime('%Y%m%d'),
+                'title':    info[u'title'],
+                'ext':      video_extension,
+                'thumbnail': info[u'thumbUrl'],
+            }]
+
+        # We try looking in other parts of the webpage
         mobj = re.search(r'<link rel="video_src" href=".*\?file=([^"]+)" />', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract media URL')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
         mediaURL = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group(1))
 
         video_url = mediaURL
 
         mobj = re.search(r'<title>(.*) video by (.*) - Photobucket</title>', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
         video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
 
         video_uploader = mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
@@ -950,23 +921,11 @@ class YahooIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VPAGE_URL = r'(?:http://)?video\.yahoo\.com/watch/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)(?:[#\?].*)?'
     IE_NAME = u'video.yahoo'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
-    def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
-        """Report webpage download."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.yahoo] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.yahoo] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
-
     def _real_extract(self, url, new_video=True):
         # Extract ID from URL
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group(2)
         video_extension = 'flv'
@@ -978,19 +937,16 @@ class YahooIE(InfoExtractor):
             try:
                 webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
             except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
             mobj = re.search(r'\("id", "([0-9]+)"\);', webpage)
             if mobj is None:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to extract id field')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract id field')
             yahoo_id = mobj.group(1)
 
             mobj = re.search(r'\("vid", "([0-9]+)"\);', webpage)
             if mobj is None:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to extract vid field')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract vid field')
             yahoo_vid = mobj.group(1)
 
             url = 'http://video.yahoo.com/watch/%s/%s' % (yahoo_vid, yahoo_id)
@@ -1002,35 +958,30 @@ class YahooIE(InfoExtractor):
             self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
             webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
         # Extract uploader and title from webpage
         self.report_extraction(video_id)
         mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="title" content="(.*)" />', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video title')
         video_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
 
         mobj = re.search(r'<h2 class="ti-5"><a href="http://video\.yahoo\.com/(people|profile)/[0-9]+" beacon=".*">(.*)</a></h2>', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video uploader')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video uploader')
         video_uploader = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
 
         # Extract video thumbnail
         mobj = re.search(r'<link rel="image_src" href="(.*)" />', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video thumbnail')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video thumbnail')
         video_thumbnail = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
 
         # Extract video description
         mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="description" content="(.*)" />', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video description')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video description')
         video_description = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
         if not video_description:
             video_description = 'No description available.'
@@ -1038,14 +989,12 @@ class YahooIE(InfoExtractor):
         # Extract video height and width
         mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="video_height" content="([0-9]+)" />', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video height')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video height')
         yv_video_height = mobj.group(1)
 
         mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="video_width" content="([0-9]+)" />', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video width')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video width')
         yv_video_width = mobj.group(1)
 
         # Retrieve video playlist to extract media URL
@@ -1060,14 +1009,12 @@ class YahooIE(InfoExtractor):
             self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
             webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
         # Extract media URL from playlist XML
         mobj = re.search(r'<STREAM APP="(http://.*)" FULLPATH="/?(/.*\.flv\?[^"]*)"', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to extract media URL')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
         video_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group(1) + mobj.group(2)).decode('utf-8')
         video_url = unescapeHTML(video_url)
 
@@ -1090,23 +1037,11 @@ class VimeoIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'(?P<proto>https?://)?(?:(?:www|player)\.)?vimeo\.com/(?:(?:groups|album)/[^/]+/)?(?P<direct_link>play_redirect_hls\?clip_id=)?(?:videos?/)?(?P<id>[0-9]+)'
     IE_NAME = u'vimeo'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
-    def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
-        """Report webpage download."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[vimeo] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[vimeo] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
-
     def _real_extract(self, url, new_video=True):
         # Extract ID from URL
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group('id')
         if not mobj.group('proto'):
@@ -1116,13 +1051,7 @@ class VimeoIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         # Retrieve video webpage to extract further information
         request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url, None, std_headers)
-        try:
-            self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
-            webpage_bytes = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
-            webpage = webpage_bytes.decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(request, video_id)
 
         # Now we begin extracting as much information as we can from what we
         # retrieved. First we extract the information common to all extractors,
@@ -1134,8 +1063,10 @@ class VimeoIE(InfoExtractor):
             config = webpage.split(' = {config:')[1].split(',assets:')[0]
             config = json.loads(config)
         except:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract info section')
-            return
+            if re.search('The creator of this video has not given you permission to embed it on this domain.', webpage):
+                raise ExtractorError(u'The author has restricted the access to this video, try with the "--referer" option')
+            else:
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract info section')
 
         # Extract title
         video_title = config["video"]["title"]
@@ -1181,11 +1112,10 @@ class VimeoIE(InfoExtractor):
                 video_quality = files[quality][0][2]
                 video_codec = files[quality][0][0]
                 video_extension = files[quality][0][1]
-                self._downloader.to_screen(u'[vimeo] %s: Downloading %s file at %s quality' % (video_id, video_codec.upper(), video_quality))
+                self.to_screen(u'%s: Downloading %s file at %s quality' % (video_id, video_codec.upper(), video_quality))
                 break
         else:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'no known codec found')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'No known codec found')
 
         video_url = "http://player.vimeo.com/play_redirect?clip_id=%s&sig=%s&time=%s&quality=%s&codecs=%s&type=moogaloop_local&embed_location=" \
                     %(video_id, sig, timestamp, video_quality, video_codec.upper())
@@ -1211,28 +1141,15 @@ class ArteTvIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     IE_NAME = u'arte.tv'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
-    def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
-        """Report webpage download."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[arte.tv] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[arte.tv] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
-
     def fetch_webpage(self, url):
         request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
         try:
             self.report_download_webpage(url)
             webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
         except ValueError as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         return webpage
 
     def grep_webpage(self, url, regex, regexFlags, matchTuples):
@@ -1241,13 +1158,11 @@ class ArteTvIE(InfoExtractor):
         info = {}
 
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         for (i, key, err) in matchTuples:
             if mobj.group(i) is None:
-                self._downloader.trouble(err)
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(err)
             else:
                 info[key] = mobj.group(i)
 
@@ -1260,7 +1175,7 @@ class ArteTvIE(InfoExtractor):
             r'src="(.*?/videothek_js.*?\.js)',
             0,
             [
-                (1, 'url', u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                (1, 'url', u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
             ]
         )
         http_host = url.split('/')[2]
@@ -1272,9 +1187,9 @@ class ArteTvIE(InfoExtractor):
                 '(rtmp://.*?)\'',
             re.DOTALL,
             [
-                (1, 'path',   u'ERROR: could not extract video path: %s' % url),
-                (2, 'player', u'ERROR: could not extract video player: %s' % url),
-                (3, 'url',    u'ERROR: could not extract video url: %s' % url)
+                (1, 'path',   u'could not extract video path: %s' % url),
+                (2, 'player', u'could not extract video player: %s' % url),
+                (3, 'url',    u'could not extract video url: %s' % url)
             ]
         )
         video_url = u'%s/%s' % (info.get('url'), info.get('path'))
@@ -1286,7 +1201,7 @@ class ArteTvIE(InfoExtractor):
             r'param name="movie".*?videorefFileUrl=(http[^\'"&]*)',
             0,
             [
-                (1, 'url', u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                (1, 'url', u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
             ]
         )
         next_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(info.get('url'))
@@ -1295,7 +1210,7 @@ class ArteTvIE(InfoExtractor):
             r'<video lang="%s" ref="(http[^\'"&]*)' % video_lang,
             0,
             [
-                (1, 'url', u'ERROR: Could not find <video> tag: %s' % url)
+                (1, 'url', u'Could not find <video> tag: %s' % url)
             ]
         )
         next_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(info.get('url'))
@@ -1308,10 +1223,10 @@ class ArteTvIE(InfoExtractor):
                 '<url quality="hd">(.*?)</url>',
             re.DOTALL,
             [
-                (1, 'id',    u'ERROR: could not extract video id: %s' % url),
-                (2, 'title', u'ERROR: could not extract video title: %s' % url),
-                (3, 'date',  u'ERROR: could not extract video date: %s' % url),
-                (4, 'url',   u'ERROR: could not extract video url: %s' % url)
+                (1, 'id',    u'could not extract video id: %s' % url),
+                (2, 'title', u'could not extract video title: %s' % url),
+                (3, 'date',  u'could not extract video date: %s' % url),
+                (4, 'url',   u'could not extract video url: %s' % url)
             ]
         )
 
@@ -1319,7 +1234,7 @@ class ArteTvIE(InfoExtractor):
             'id':           info.get('id'),
             'url':          compat_urllib_parse.unquote(info.get('url')),
             'uploader':     u'arte.tv',
-            'upload_date':  info.get('date'),
+            'upload_date':  unified_strdate(info.get('date')),
             'title':        info.get('title').decode('utf-8'),
             'ext':          u'mp4',
             'format':       u'NA',
@@ -1345,18 +1260,11 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'.*'
     IE_NAME = u'generic'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
     def report_download_webpage(self, video_id):
         """Report webpage download."""
         if not self._downloader.params.get('test', False):
-            self._downloader.to_screen(u'WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.')
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[generic] %s: Downloading webpage' % video_id)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[generic] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+            self._downloader.report_warning(u'Falling back on generic information extractor.')
+        super(GenericIE, self).report_download_webpage(video_id)
 
     def report_following_redirect(self, new_url):
         """Report information extraction."""
@@ -1426,8 +1334,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
         except ValueError as err:
             # since this is the last-resort InfoExtractor, if
             # this error is thrown, it'll be thrown here
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         self.report_extraction(video_id)
         # Start with something easy: JW Player in SWFObject
@@ -1439,14 +1346,12 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
             # Broaden the search a little bit: JWPlayer JS loader
             mobj = re.search(r'[^A-Za-z0-9]?file:\s*["\'](http[^\'"&]*)', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         # It's possible that one of the regexes
         # matched, but returned an empty group:
         if mobj.group(1) is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group(1))
         video_id = os.path.basename(video_url)
@@ -1463,15 +1368,13 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
         # and so on and so forth; it's just not practical
         mobj = re.search(r'<title>(.*)</title>', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
         video_title = mobj.group(1)
 
         # video uploader is domain name
         mobj = re.match(r'(?:https?://)?([^/]*)/.*', url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
         video_uploader = mobj.group(1)
 
         return [{
@@ -1491,9 +1394,6 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
     _max_youtube_results = 1000
     IE_NAME = u'youtube:search'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
     def report_download_page(self, query, pagenum):
         """Report attempt to download search page with given number."""
         query = query.decode(preferredencoding())
@@ -1502,35 +1402,29 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, query):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, query)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid search query "%s"' % query)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid search query "%s"' % query)
 
         prefix, query = query.split(':')
         prefix = prefix[8:]
         query = query.encode('utf-8')
         if prefix == '':
-            self._download_n_results(query, 1)
-            return
+            return self._get_n_results(query, 1)
         elif prefix == 'all':
-            self._download_n_results(query, self._max_youtube_results)
-            return
+            self._get_n_results(query, self._max_youtube_results)
         else:
             try:
                 n = int(prefix)
                 if n <= 0:
-                    self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid download number %s for query "%s"' % (n, query))
-                    return
+                    raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid download number %s for query "%s"' % (n, query))
                 elif n > self._max_youtube_results:
                     self._downloader.report_warning(u'ytsearch returns max %i results (you requested %i)' % (self._max_youtube_results, n))
                     n = self._max_youtube_results
-                self._download_n_results(query, n)
-                return
+                return self._get_n_results(query, n)
             except ValueError: # parsing prefix as integer fails
-                self._download_n_results(query, 1)
-                return
+                return self._get_n_results(query, 1)
 
-    def _download_n_results(self, query, n):
-        """Downloads a specified number of results for a query"""
+    def _get_n_results(self, query, n):
+        """Get a specified number of results for a query"""
 
         video_ids = []
         pagenum = 0
@@ -1543,13 +1437,11 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
             try:
                 data = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
             except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download API page: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download API page: %s' % compat_str(err))
             api_response = json.loads(data)['data']
 
             if not 'items' in api_response:
-                self._downloader.trouble(u'[youtube] No video results')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'[youtube] No video results')
 
             new_ids = list(video['id'] for video in api_response['items'])
             video_ids += new_ids
@@ -1559,92 +1451,58 @@ class YoutubeSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         if len(video_ids) > n:
             video_ids = video_ids[:n]
-        for id in video_ids:
-            self._downloader.download(['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % id])
-        return
+        videos = [self.url_result('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % id, 'Youtube') for id in video_ids]
+        return videos
 
 
 class GoogleSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
     """Information Extractor for Google Video search queries."""
-    _VALID_URL = r'gvsearch(\d+|all)?:[\s\S]+'
-    _TEMPLATE_URL = 'http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%s+site:video.google.com&start=%s&hl=en'
-    _VIDEO_INDICATOR = r'<a href="http://video\.google\.com/videoplay\?docid=([^"\&]+)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'gvsearch(?P<prefix>|\d+|all):(?P<query>[\s\S]+)'
     _MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR = r'class="pn" id="pnnext"'
     _max_google_results = 1000
     IE_NAME = u'video.google:search'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
-    def report_download_page(self, query, pagenum):
-        """Report attempt to download playlist page with given number."""
-        query = query.decode(preferredencoding())
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.google] query "%s": Downloading page %s' % (query, pagenum))
-
     def _real_extract(self, query):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, query)
-        if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid search query "%s"' % query)
-            return
 
-        prefix, query = query.split(':')
-        prefix = prefix[8:]
-        query = query.encode('utf-8')
+        prefix = mobj.group('prefix')
+        query = mobj.group('query')
         if prefix == '':
-            self._download_n_results(query, 1)
-            return
+            return self._get_n_results(query, 1)
         elif prefix == 'all':
-            self._download_n_results(query, self._max_google_results)
-            return
+            return self._get_n_results(query, self._max_google_results)
         else:
-            try:
-                n = int(prefix)
-                if n <= 0:
-                    self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid download number %s for query "%s"' % (n, query))
-                    return
-                elif n > self._max_google_results:
-                    self._downloader.report_warning(u'gvsearch returns max %i results (you requested %i)' % (self._max_google_results, n))
-                    n = self._max_google_results
-                self._download_n_results(query, n)
-                return
-            except ValueError: # parsing prefix as integer fails
-                self._download_n_results(query, 1)
-                return
-
-    def _download_n_results(self, query, n):
-        """Downloads a specified number of results for a query"""
-
-        video_ids = []
-        pagenum = 0
-
-        while True:
-            self.report_download_page(query, pagenum)
-            result_url = self._TEMPLATE_URL % (compat_urllib_parse.quote_plus(query), pagenum*10)
-            request = compat_urllib_request.Request(result_url)
-            try:
-                page = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
-            except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+            n = int(prefix)
+            if n <= 0:
+                raise ExtractorError(u'invalid download number %s for query "%s"' % (n, query))
+            elif n > self._max_google_results:
+                self._downloader.report_warning(u'gvsearch returns max %i results (you requested %i)' % (self._max_google_results, n))
+                n = self._max_google_results
+            return self._get_n_results(query, n)
+
+    def _get_n_results(self, query, n):
+        """Get a specified number of results for a query"""
+
+        res = {
+            '_type': 'playlist',
+            'id': query,
+            'entries': []
+        }
 
-            # Extract video identifiers
-            for mobj in re.finditer(self._VIDEO_INDICATOR, page):
-                video_id = mobj.group(1)
-                if video_id not in video_ids:
-                    video_ids.append(video_id)
-                    if len(video_ids) == n:
-                        # Specified n videos reached
-                        for id in video_ids:
-                            self._downloader.download(['http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=%s' % id])
-                        return
+        for pagenum in itertools.count(1):
+            result_url = u'http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%s&start=%s&hl=en' % (compat_urllib_parse.quote_plus(query), pagenum*10)
+            webpage = self._download_webpage(result_url, u'gvsearch:' + query,
+                                             note='Downloading result page ' + str(pagenum))
 
-            if re.search(self._MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR, page) is None:
-                for id in video_ids:
-                    self._downloader.download(['http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=%s' % id])
-                return
-
-            pagenum = pagenum + 1
+            for mobj in re.finditer(r'<h3 class="r"><a href="([^"]+)"', webpage):
+                e = {
+                    '_type': 'url',
+                    'url': mobj.group(1)
+                }
+                res['entries'].append(e)
 
+            if (pagenum * 10 > n) or not re.search(self._MORE_PAGES_INDICATOR, webpage):
+                return res
 
 class YahooSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
     """Information Extractor for Yahoo! Video search queries."""
@@ -1657,19 +1515,15 @@ class YahooSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
     _max_yahoo_results = 1000
     IE_NAME = u'video.yahoo:search'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
     def report_download_page(self, query, pagenum):
         """Report attempt to download playlist page with given number."""
         query = query.decode(preferredencoding())
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[video.yahoo] query "%s": Downloading page %s' % (query, pagenum))
+        self.to_screen(u'query "%s": Downloading page %s' % (query, pagenum))
 
     def _real_extract(self, query):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, query)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid search query "%s"' % query)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid search query "%s"' % query)
 
         prefix, query = query.split(':')
         prefix = prefix[8:]
@@ -1684,8 +1538,7 @@ class YahooSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
             try:
                 n = int(prefix)
                 if n <= 0:
-                    self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid download number %s for query "%s"' % (n, query))
-                    return
+                    raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid download number %s for query "%s"' % (n, query))
                 elif n > self._max_yahoo_results:
                     self._downloader.report_warning(u'yvsearch returns max %i results (you requested %i)' % (self._max_yahoo_results, n))
                     n = self._max_yahoo_results
@@ -1709,8 +1562,7 @@ class YahooSearchIE(InfoExtractor):
             try:
                 page = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
             except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
             # Extract video identifiers
             for mobj in re.finditer(self._VIDEO_INDICATOR, page):
@@ -1753,24 +1605,16 @@ class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
     _MAX_RESULTS = 50
     IE_NAME = u'youtube:playlist'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
     @classmethod
     def suitable(cls, url):
         """Receives a URL and returns True if suitable for this IE."""
         return re.match(cls._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE) is not None
 
-    def report_download_page(self, playlist_id, pagenum):
-        """Report attempt to download playlist page with given number."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] PL %s: Downloading page #%s' % (playlist_id, pagenum))
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         # Extract playlist id
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid url: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         # Download playlist videos from API
         playlist_id = mobj.group(1) or mobj.group(2)
@@ -1778,24 +1622,17 @@ class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
         videos = []
 
         while True:
-            self.report_download_page(playlist_id, page_num)
-
             url = self._TEMPLATE_URL % (playlist_id, self._MAX_RESULTS, self._MAX_RESULTS * (page_num - 1) + 1)
-            try:
-                page = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url).read().decode('utf8')
-            except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+            page = self._download_webpage(url, playlist_id, u'Downloading page #%s' % page_num)
 
             try:
                 response = json.loads(page)
             except ValueError as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid JSON in API response: ' + compat_str(err))
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid JSON in API response: ' + compat_str(err))
 
             if 'feed' not in response:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'Got a malformed response from YouTube API')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Got a malformed response from YouTube API')
+            playlist_title = response['feed']['title']['$t']
             if 'entry' not in response['feed']:
                 # Number of videos is a multiple of self._MAX_RESULTS
                 break
@@ -1810,8 +1647,8 @@ class YoutubePlaylistIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         videos = [v[1] for v in sorted(videos)]
 
-        url_results = [self.url_result(url) for url in videos]
-        return [self.playlist_result(url_results, playlist_id)]
+        url_results = [self.url_result(url, 'Youtube') for url in videos]
+        return [self.playlist_result(url_results, playlist_id, playlist_title)]
 
 
 class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor):
@@ -1823,10 +1660,6 @@ class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor):
     _MORE_PAGES_URL = 'http://www.youtube.com/channel_ajax?action_load_more_videos=1&flow=list&paging=%s&view=0&sort=da&channel_id=%s'
     IE_NAME = u'youtube:channel'
 
-    def report_download_page(self, channel_id, pagenum):
-        """Report attempt to download channel page with given number."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] Channel %s: Downloading page #%s' % (channel_id, pagenum))
-
     def extract_videos_from_page(self, page):
         ids_in_page = []
         for mobj in re.finditer(r'href="/watch\?v=([0-9A-Za-z_-]+)&?', page):
@@ -1838,22 +1671,16 @@ class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor):
         # Extract channel id
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid url: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         # Download channel page
         channel_id = mobj.group(1)
         video_ids = []
         pagenum = 1
 
-        self.report_download_page(channel_id, pagenum)
         url = self._TEMPLATE_URL % (channel_id, pagenum)
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
-        try:
-            page = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        page = self._download_webpage(url, channel_id,
+                                      u'Downloading page #%s' % pagenum)
 
         # Extract video identifiers
         ids_in_page = self.extract_videos_from_page(page)
@@ -1864,14 +1691,9 @@ class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor):
             while True:
                 pagenum = pagenum + 1
 
-                self.report_download_page(channel_id, pagenum)
                 url = self._MORE_PAGES_URL % (pagenum, channel_id)
-                request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
-                try:
-                    page = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf8')
-                except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                    self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                    return
+                page = self._download_webpage(url, channel_id,
+                                              u'Downloading page #%s' % pagenum)
 
                 page = json.loads(page)
 
@@ -1884,7 +1706,7 @@ class YoutubeChannelIE(InfoExtractor):
         self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] Channel %s: Found %i videos' % (channel_id, len(video_ids)))
 
         urls = ['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % id for id in video_ids]
-        url_entries = [self.url_result(url) for url in urls]
+        url_entries = [self.url_result(url, 'Youtube') for url in urls]
         return [self.playlist_result(url_entries, channel_id)]
 
 
@@ -1898,20 +1720,11 @@ class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VIDEO_INDICATOR = r'/watch\?v=(.+?)[\<&]'
     IE_NAME = u'youtube:user'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
-    def report_download_page(self, username, start_index):
-        """Report attempt to download user page."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youtube] user %s: Downloading video ids from %d to %d' %
-                (username, start_index, start_index + self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE))
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         # Extract username
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid url: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         username = mobj.group(1)
 
@@ -1925,15 +1738,10 @@ class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         while True:
             start_index = pagenum * self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE + 1
-            self.report_download_page(username, start_index)
 
-            request = compat_urllib_request.Request(self._GDATA_URL % (username, self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE, start_index))
-
-            try:
-                page = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-            except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+            gdata_url = self._GDATA_URL % (username, self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE, start_index)
+            page = self._download_webpage(gdata_url, username,
+                                          u'Downloading video ids from %d to %d' % (start_index, start_index + self._GDATA_PAGE_SIZE))
 
             # Extract video identifiers
             ids_in_page = []
@@ -1956,7 +1764,7 @@ class YoutubeUserIE(InfoExtractor):
             pagenum += 1
 
         urls = ['http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s' % video_id for video_id in video_ids]
-        url_results = [self.url_result(url) for url in urls]
+        url_results = [self.url_result(url, 'Youtube') for url in urls]
         return [self.playlist_result(url_results, playlist_title = username)]
 
 
@@ -1967,34 +1775,19 @@ class BlipTVUserIE(InfoExtractor):
     _PAGE_SIZE = 12
     IE_NAME = u'blip.tv:user'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
-    def report_download_page(self, username, pagenum):
-        """Report attempt to download user page."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] user %s: Downloading video ids from page %d' %
-                (self.IE_NAME, username, pagenum))
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         # Extract username
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid url: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         username = mobj.group(1)
 
         page_base = 'http://m.blip.tv/pr/show_get_full_episode_list?users_id=%s&lite=0&esi=1'
 
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
-
-        try:
-            page = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-            mobj = re.search(r'data-users-id="([^"]+)"', page)
-            page_base = page_base % mobj.group(1)
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        page = self._download_webpage(url, username, u'Downloading user page')
+        mobj = re.search(r'data-users-id="([^"]+)"', page)
+        page_base = page_base % mobj.group(1)
 
 
         # Download video ids using BlipTV Ajax calls. Result size per
@@ -2006,14 +1799,9 @@ class BlipTVUserIE(InfoExtractor):
         pagenum = 1
 
         while True:
-            self.report_download_page(username, pagenum)
             url = page_base + "&page=" + str(pagenum)
-            request = compat_urllib_request.Request( url )
-            try:
-                page = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-            except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % str(err))
-                return
+            page = self._download_webpage(url, username,
+                                          u'Downloading video ids from page %d' % pagenum)
 
             # Extract video identifiers
             ids_in_page = []
@@ -2035,11 +1823,8 @@ class BlipTVUserIE(InfoExtractor):
 
             pagenum += 1
 
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u"[%s] user %s: Collected %d video ids (downloading %d of them)" %
-                (self.IE_NAME, username, all_ids_count, len(video_ids)))
-
         urls = [u'http://blip.tv/%s' % video_id for video_id in video_ids]
-        url_entries = [self.url_result(url) for url in urls]
+        url_entries = [self.url_result(url, 'BlipTV') for url in urls]
         return [self.playlist_result(url_entries, playlist_title = username)]
 
 
@@ -2048,14 +1833,6 @@ class DepositFilesIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:\w+\.)?depositfiles\.com/(?:../(?#locale))?files/(.+)'
 
-    def report_download_webpage(self, file_id):
-        """Report webpage download."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[DepositFiles] %s: Downloading webpage' % file_id)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, file_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[DepositFiles] %s: Extracting information' % file_id)
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         file_id = url.split('/')[-1]
         # Rebuild url in english locale
@@ -2068,8 +1845,7 @@ class DepositFilesIE(InfoExtractor):
             self.report_download_webpage(file_id)
             webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve file webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to retrieve file webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
         # Search for the real file URL
         mobj = re.search(r'<form action="(http://fileshare.+?)"', webpage)
@@ -2078,10 +1854,9 @@ class DepositFilesIE(InfoExtractor):
             mobj = re.search(r'<strong>(Attention.*?)</strong>', webpage, re.DOTALL)
             if (mobj is not None) and (mobj.group(1) is not None):
                 restriction_message = re.sub('\s+', ' ', mobj.group(1)).strip()
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'%s' % restriction_message)
+                raise ExtractorError(u'%s' % restriction_message)
             else:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract download URL from: %s' % url)
-            return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract download URL from: %s' % url)
 
         file_url = mobj.group(1)
         file_extension = os.path.splitext(file_url)[1][1:]
@@ -2089,8 +1864,7 @@ class DepositFilesIE(InfoExtractor):
         # Search for file title
         mobj = re.search(r'<b title="(.*?)">', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
         file_title = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
 
         return [{
@@ -2113,7 +1887,7 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def report_login(self):
         """Report attempt to log in."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] Logging in' % self.IE_NAME)
+        self.to_screen(u'Logging in')
 
     def _real_initialize(self):
         if self._downloader is None:
@@ -2162,8 +1936,7 @@ class FacebookIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         video_id = mobj.group('ID')
 
         url = 'https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=%s' % video_id
@@ -2209,19 +1982,14 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
     _URL_EXT = r'^.*\.([a-z0-9]+)$'
     IE_NAME = u'blip.tv'
 
-    def report_extraction(self, file_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, file_id))
-
     def report_direct_download(self, title):
         """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Direct download detected' % (self.IE_NAME, title))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Direct download detected' % title)
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         urlp = compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(url)
         if urlp.path.startswith('/play/'):
@@ -2267,8 +2035,7 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
                 json_code_bytes = urlh.read()
                 json_code = json_code_bytes.decode('utf-8')
             except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to read video info webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to read video info webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
             try:
                 json_data = json.loads(json_code)
@@ -2298,8 +2065,7 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
                     'user_agent': 'iTunes/10.6.1',
                 }
             except (ValueError,KeyError) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to parse video information: %s' % repr(err))
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to parse video information: %s' % repr(err))
 
         return [info]
 
@@ -2307,21 +2073,13 @@ class BlipTVIE(InfoExtractor):
 class MyVideoIE(InfoExtractor):
     """Information Extractor for myvideo.de."""
 
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?myvideo\.de/watch/([0-9]+)/([^?/]+).*'
-    IE_NAME = u'myvideo'
-
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[myvideo] %s: Extracting information' % video_id)
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?myvideo\.de/watch/([0-9]+)/([^?/]+).*'
+    IE_NAME = u'myvideo'
 
     def _real_extract(self,url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._download.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group(1)
 
@@ -2333,14 +2091,12 @@ class MyVideoIE(InfoExtractor):
         mobj = re.search(r'<link rel=\'image_src\' href=\'(http://is[0-9].myvideo\.de/de/movie[0-9]+/[a-f0-9]+)/thumbs/.*?\.jpg\'',
                  webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract media URL')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
         video_url = mobj.group(1) + ('/%s.flv' % video_id)
 
         mobj = re.search('<title>([^<]+)</title>', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
 
         video_title = mobj.group(1)
 
@@ -2394,15 +2150,6 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
         """Receives a URL and returns True if suitable for this IE."""
         return re.match(cls._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE) is not None
 
-    def report_extraction(self, episode_id):
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[comedycentral] %s: Extracting information' % episode_id)
-
-    def report_config_download(self, episode_id, media_id):
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[comedycentral] %s: Downloading configuration for %s' % (episode_id, media_id))
-
-    def report_index_download(self, episode_id):
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[comedycentral] %s: Downloading show index' % episode_id)
-
     def _print_formats(self, formats):
         print('Available formats:')
         for x in formats:
@@ -2412,8 +2159,7 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         if mobj.group('shortname'):
             if mobj.group('shortname') in ('tds', 'thedailyshow'):
@@ -2436,24 +2182,15 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
             else:
                 epTitle = mobj.group('episode')
 
-        req = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
         self.report_extraction(epTitle)
-        try:
-            htmlHandle = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(req)
-            html = htmlHandle.read()
-            webpage = html.decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        webpage,htmlHandle = self._download_webpage_handle(url, epTitle)
         if dlNewest:
             url = htmlHandle.geturl()
             mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE)
             if mobj is None:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid redirected URL: ' + url)
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid redirected URL: ' + url)
             if mobj.group('episode') == '':
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'Redirected URL is still not specific: ' + url)
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Redirected URL is still not specific: ' + url)
             epTitle = mobj.group('episode')
 
         mMovieParams = re.findall('(?:<param name="movie" value="|var url = ")(http://media.mtvnservices.com/([^"]*(?:episode|video).*?:.*?))"', webpage)
@@ -2465,19 +2202,15 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
 
             altMovieParams = re.findall('data-mgid="([^"]*(?:episode|video).*?:.*?)"', webpage)
             if len(altMovieParams) == 0:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to find Flash URL in webpage ' + url)
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'unable to find Flash URL in webpage ' + url)
             else:
                 mMovieParams = [("http://media.mtvnservices.com/" + altMovieParams[0], altMovieParams[0])]
 
         uri = mMovieParams[0][1]
         indexUrl = 'http://shadow.comedycentral.com/feeds/video_player/mrss/?' + compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({'uri': uri})
-        self.report_index_download(epTitle)
-        try:
-            indexXml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(indexUrl).read()
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download episode index: ' + compat_str(err))
-            return
+        indexXml = self._download_webpage(indexUrl, epTitle,
+                                          u'Downloading show index',
+                                          u'unable to download episode index')
 
         results = []
 
@@ -2488,17 +2221,12 @@ class ComedyCentralIE(InfoExtractor):
             shortMediaId = mediaId.split(':')[-1]
             showId = mediaId.split(':')[-2].replace('.com', '')
             officialTitle = itemEl.findall('./title')[0].text
-            officialDate = itemEl.findall('./pubDate')[0].text
+            officialDate = unified_strdate(itemEl.findall('./pubDate')[0].text)
 
             configUrl = ('http://www.comedycentral.com/global/feeds/entertainment/media/mediaGenEntertainment.jhtml?' +
                         compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({'uri': mediaId}))
-            configReq = compat_urllib_request.Request(configUrl)
-            self.report_config_download(epTitle, shortMediaId)
-            try:
-                configXml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(configReq).read()
-            except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+            configXml = self._download_webpage(configUrl, epTitle,
+                                               u'Downloading configuration for %s' % shortMediaId)
 
             cdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(configXml)
             turls = []
@@ -2555,29 +2283,15 @@ class EscapistIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'^(https?://)?(www\.)?escapistmagazine\.com/videos/view/(?P<showname>[^/]+)/(?P<episode>[^/?]+)[/?]?.*$'
     IE_NAME = u'escapist'
 
-    def report_extraction(self, showName):
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[escapist] %s: Extracting information' % showName)
-
-    def report_config_download(self, showName):
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[escapist] %s: Downloading configuration' % showName)
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         showName = mobj.group('showname')
         videoId = mobj.group('episode')
 
         self.report_extraction(showName)
-        try:
-            webPage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url)
-            webPageBytes = webPage.read()
-            m = re.match(r'text/html; charset="?([^"]+)"?', webPage.headers['Content-Type'])
-            webPage = webPageBytes.decode(m.group(1) if m else 'utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download webpage: ' + compat_str(err))
-            return
+        webPage = self._download_webpage(url, showName)
 
         descMatch = re.search('<meta name="description" content="([^"]*)"', webPage)
         description = unescapeHTML(descMatch.group(1))
@@ -2588,14 +2302,9 @@ class EscapistIE(InfoExtractor):
         configUrlMatch = re.search('config=(.*)$', playerUrl)
         configUrl = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(configUrlMatch.group(1))
 
-        self.report_config_download(showName)
-        try:
-            configJSON = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(configUrl)
-            m = re.match(r'text/html; charset="?([^"]+)"?', configJSON.headers['Content-Type'])
-            configJSON = configJSON.read().decode(m.group(1) if m else 'utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download configuration: ' + compat_str(err))
-            return
+        configJSON = self._download_webpage(configUrl, showName,
+                                            u'Downloading configuration',
+                                            u'unable to download configuration')
 
         # Technically, it's JavaScript, not JSON
         configJSON = configJSON.replace("'", '"')
@@ -2603,8 +2312,7 @@ class EscapistIE(InfoExtractor):
         try:
             config = json.loads(configJSON)
         except (ValueError,) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid JSON in configuration file: ' + compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid JSON in configuration file: ' + compat_str(err))
 
         playlist = config['playlist']
         videoUrl = playlist[1]['url']
@@ -2632,17 +2340,12 @@ class CollegeHumorIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def report_manifest(self, video_id):
         """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading XML manifest' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Downloading XML manifest' % video_id)
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         video_id = mobj.group('videoid')
 
         info = {
@@ -2656,8 +2359,7 @@ class CollegeHumorIE(InfoExtractor):
         try:
             metaXml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(xmlUrl).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download video info XML: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download video info XML: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
         mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metaXml)
         try:
@@ -2667,16 +2369,14 @@ class CollegeHumorIE(InfoExtractor):
             info['thumbnail'] = videoNode.findall('./thumbnail')[0].text
             manifest_url = videoNode.findall('./file')[0].text
         except IndexError:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid metadata XML file')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid metadata XML file')
 
         manifest_url += '?hdcore=2.10.3'
         self.report_manifest(video_id)
         try:
             manifestXml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(manifest_url).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download video info XML: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download video info XML: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
         adoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(manifestXml)
         try:
@@ -2684,8 +2384,7 @@ class CollegeHumorIE(InfoExtractor):
             node_id = media_node.attrib['url']
             video_id = adoc.findall('./{http://ns.adobe.com/f4m/1.0}id')[0].text
         except IndexError as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid manifest file')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid manifest file')
 
         url_pr = compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(manifest_url)
         url = url_pr.scheme + '://' + url_pr.netloc + '/z' + video_id[:-2] + '/' + node_id + 'Seg1-Frag1'
@@ -2701,15 +2400,10 @@ class XVideosIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?xvideos\.com/video([0-9]+)(?:.*)'
     IE_NAME = u'xvideos'
 
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         video_id = mobj.group(1)
 
         webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
@@ -2720,24 +2414,21 @@ class XVideosIE(InfoExtractor):
         # Extract video URL
         mobj = re.search(r'flv_url=(.+?)&', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video url')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video url')
         video_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(mobj.group(1))
 
 
         # Extract title
         mobj = re.search(r'<title>(.*?)\s+-\s+XVID', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video title')
         video_title = mobj.group(1)
 
 
         # Extract video thumbnail
         mobj = re.search(r'http://(?:img.*?\.)xvideos.com/videos/thumbs/[a-fA-F0-9]+/[a-fA-F0-9]+/[a-fA-F0-9]+/[a-fA-F0-9]+/([a-fA-F0-9.]+jpg)', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video thumbnail')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video thumbnail')
         video_thumbnail = mobj.group(0)
 
         info = {
@@ -2766,62 +2457,46 @@ class SoundcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?soundcloud\.com/([\w\d-]+)/([\w\d-]+)'
     IE_NAME = u'soundcloud'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
     def report_resolve(self, video_id):
         """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Resolving id' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Retrieving stream' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Resolving id' % video_id)
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         # extract uploader (which is in the url)
         uploader = mobj.group(1)
         # extract simple title (uploader + slug of song title)
         slug_title =  mobj.group(2)
         simple_title = uploader + u'-' + slug_title
+        full_title = '%s/%s' % (uploader, slug_title)
 
-        self.report_resolve('%s/%s' % (uploader, slug_title))
+        self.report_resolve(full_title)
 
         url = 'http://soundcloud.com/%s/%s' % (uploader, slug_title)
         resolv_url = 'http://api.soundcloud.com/resolve.json?url=' + url + '&client_id=b45b1aa10f1ac2941910a7f0d10f8e28'
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(resolv_url)
-        try:
-            info_json_bytes = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
-            info_json = info_json_bytes.decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        info_json = self._download_webpage(resolv_url, full_title, u'Downloading info JSON')
 
         info = json.loads(info_json)
         video_id = info['id']
-        self.report_extraction('%s/%s' % (uploader, slug_title))
+        self.report_extraction(full_title)
 
         streams_url = 'https://api.sndcdn.com/i1/tracks/' + str(video_id) + '/streams?client_id=b45b1aa10f1ac2941910a7f0d10f8e28'
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(streams_url)
-        try:
-            stream_json_bytes = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
-            stream_json = stream_json_bytes.decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download stream definitions: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        stream_json = self._download_webpage(streams_url, full_title,
+                                             u'Downloading stream definitions',
+                                             u'unable to download stream definitions')
 
         streams = json.loads(stream_json)
         mediaURL = streams['http_mp3_128_url']
+        upload_date = unified_strdate(info['created_at'])
 
         return [{
             'id':       info['id'],
             'url':      mediaURL,
             'uploader': info['user']['username'],
-            'upload_date':  info['created_at'],
+            'upload_date': upload_date,
             'title':    info['title'],
             'ext':      u'mp3',
             'description': info['description'],
@@ -2837,63 +2512,45 @@ class SoundcloudSetIE(InfoExtractor):
      """
 
     _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?soundcloud\.com/([\w\d-]+)/sets/([\w\d-]+)'
-    IE_NAME = u'soundcloud'
-
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
+    IE_NAME = u'soundcloud:set'
 
     def report_resolve(self, video_id):
         """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Resolving id' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Retrieving stream' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Resolving id' % video_id)
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         # extract uploader (which is in the url)
         uploader = mobj.group(1)
         # extract simple title (uploader + slug of song title)
         slug_title =  mobj.group(2)
         simple_title = uploader + u'-' + slug_title
+        full_title = '%s/sets/%s' % (uploader, slug_title)
 
-        self.report_resolve('%s/sets/%s' % (uploader, slug_title))
+        self.report_resolve(full_title)
 
         url = 'http://soundcloud.com/%s/sets/%s' % (uploader, slug_title)
         resolv_url = 'http://api.soundcloud.com/resolve.json?url=' + url + '&client_id=b45b1aa10f1ac2941910a7f0d10f8e28'
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(resolv_url)
-        try:
-            info_json_bytes = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
-            info_json = info_json_bytes.decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        info_json = self._download_webpage(resolv_url, full_title)
 
         videos = []
         info = json.loads(info_json)
         if 'errors' in info:
             for err in info['errors']:
-                self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err['error_message']))
+                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err['error_message']))
             return
 
+        self.report_extraction(full_title)
         for track in info['tracks']:
             video_id = track['id']
-            self.report_extraction('%s/sets/%s' % (uploader, slug_title))
 
             streams_url = 'https://api.sndcdn.com/i1/tracks/' + str(video_id) + '/streams?client_id=b45b1aa10f1ac2941910a7f0d10f8e28'
-            request = compat_urllib_request.Request(streams_url)
-            try:
-                stream_json_bytes = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
-                stream_json = stream_json_bytes.decode('utf-8')
-            except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download stream definitions: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+            stream_json = self._download_webpage(streams_url, video_id, u'Downloading track info JSON')
 
+            self.report_extraction(video_id)
             streams = json.loads(stream_json)
             mediaURL = streams['http_mp3_128_url']
 
@@ -2901,7 +2558,7 @@ class SoundcloudSetIE(InfoExtractor):
                 'id':       video_id,
                 'url':      mediaURL,
                 'uploader': track['user']['username'],
-                'upload_date':  track['created_at'],
+                'upload_date':  unified_strdate(track['created_at']),
                 'title':    track['title'],
                 'ext':      u'mp3',
                 'description': track['description'],
@@ -2913,32 +2570,25 @@ class InfoQIE(InfoExtractor):
     """Information extractor for infoq.com"""
     _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?infoq\.com/[^/]+/[^/]+$'
 
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id=url)
         self.report_extraction(url)
 
         # Extract video URL
-        mobj = re.search(r"jsclassref='([^']*)'", webpage)
+        mobj = re.search(r"jsclassref ?= ?'([^']*)'", webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video url')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video url')
         real_id = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(base64.b64decode(mobj.group(1).encode('ascii')).decode('utf-8'))
         video_url = 'rtmpe://video.infoq.com/cfx/st/' + real_id
 
         # Extract title
         mobj = re.search(r'contentTitle = "(.*?)";', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video title')
         video_title = mobj.group(1)
 
         # Extract description
@@ -2970,16 +2620,9 @@ class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?mixcloud\.com/([\w\d-]+)/([\w\d-]+)'
     IE_NAME = u'mixcloud'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
     def report_download_json(self, file_id):
         """Report JSON download."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] Downloading json' % self.IE_NAME)
-
-    def report_extraction(self, file_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, file_id))
+        self.to_screen(u'Downloading json')
 
     def get_urls(self, jsonData, fmt, bitrate='best'):
         """Get urls from 'audio_formats' section in json"""
@@ -3020,8 +2663,7 @@ class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         # extract uploader & filename from url
         uploader = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
         file_id = uploader + "-" + mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
@@ -3034,8 +2676,7 @@ class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
             self.report_download_json(file_url)
             jsonData = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve file: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to retrieve file: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
         # parse JSON
         json_data = json.loads(jsonData)
@@ -3058,8 +2699,7 @@ class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
                     break # got it!
         else:
             if req_format not in formats:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'format is not available')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Format is not available')
 
             url_list = self.get_urls(formats, req_format)
             file_url = self.check_urls(url_list)
@@ -3084,14 +2724,6 @@ class StanfordOpenClassroomIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'^(?:https?://)?openclassroom.stanford.edu(?P<path>/?|(/MainFolder/(?:HomePage|CoursePage|VideoPage)\.php([?]course=(?P<course>[^&]+)(&video=(?P<video>[^&]+))?(&.*)?)?))$'
     IE_NAME = u'stanfordoc'
 
-    def report_download_webpage(self, objid):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading webpage' % (self.IE_NAME, objid))
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
@@ -3112,15 +2744,13 @@ class StanfordOpenClassroomIE(InfoExtractor):
             try:
                 metaXml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(xmlUrl).read()
             except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download video info XML: %s' % compat_str(err))
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download video info XML: %s' % compat_str(err))
             mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metaXml)
             try:
                 info['title'] = mdoc.findall('./title')[0].text
                 info['url'] = baseUrl + mdoc.findall('./videoFile')[0].text
             except IndexError:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid metadata XML file')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid metadata XML file')
             info['ext'] = info['url'].rpartition('.')[2]
             return [info]
         elif mobj.group('course'): # A course page
@@ -3171,8 +2801,7 @@ class StanfordOpenClassroomIE(InfoExtractor):
             try:
                 rootpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(rootURL).read()
             except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download course info page: ' + compat_str(err))
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download course info page: ' + compat_str(err))
 
             info['title'] = info['id']
 
@@ -3196,15 +2825,10 @@ class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'^(?P<proto>https?://)?(?:www\.)?mtv\.com/videos/[^/]+/(?P<videoid>[0-9]+)/[^/]+$'
     IE_NAME = u'mtv'
 
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         if not mobj.group('proto'):
             url = 'http://' + url
         video_id = mobj.group('videoid')
@@ -3213,26 +2837,22 @@ class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtv_vt" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract song name')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract song name')
         song_name = unescapeHTML(mobj.group(1).decode('iso-8859-1'))
         mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtv_an" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract performer')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract performer')
         performer = unescapeHTML(mobj.group(1).decode('iso-8859-1'))
         video_title = performer + ' - ' + song_name
 
         mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtvn_uri" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to mtvn_uri')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to mtvn_uri')
         mtvn_uri = mobj.group(1)
 
         mobj = re.search(r'MTVN.Player.defaultPlaylistId = ([0-9]+);', webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract content id')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract content id')
         content_id = mobj.group(1)
 
         videogen_url = 'http://www.mtv.com/player/includes/mediaGen.jhtml?uri=' + mtvn_uri + '&id=' + content_id + '&vid=' + video_id + '&ref=www.mtvn.com&viewUri=' + mtvn_uri
@@ -3241,8 +2861,7 @@ class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
         try:
             metadataXml = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
         except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download video metadata: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to download video metadata: %s' % compat_str(err))
 
         mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metadataXml)
         renditions = mdoc.findall('.//rendition')
@@ -3255,8 +2874,7 @@ class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
             format = ext + '-' + rendition.attrib['width'] + 'x' + rendition.attrib['height'] + '_' + rendition.attrib['bitrate']
             video_url = rendition.find('./src').text
         except KeyError:
-            self._downloader.trouble('Invalid rendition field.')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError('Invalid rendition field.')
 
         info = {
             'id': video_id,
@@ -3274,14 +2892,6 @@ class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
 class YoukuIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL =  r'(?:http://)?v\.youku\.com/v_show/id_(?P<ID>[A-Za-z0-9]+)\.html'
 
-    def report_download_webpage(self, file_id):
-        """Report webpage download."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading webpage' % (self.IE_NAME, file_id))
-
-    def report_extraction(self, file_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, file_id))
-
     def _gen_sid(self):
         nowTime = int(time.time() * 1000)
         random1 = random.randint(1000,1998)
@@ -3313,24 +2923,16 @@ class YoukuIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         video_id = mobj.group('ID')
 
         info_url = 'http://v.youku.com/player/getPlayList/VideoIDS/' + video_id
 
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(info_url, None, std_headers)
-        try:
-            self.report_download_webpage(video_id)
-            jsondata = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        jsondata = self._download_webpage(info_url, video_id)
 
         self.report_extraction(video_id)
         try:
-            jsonstr = jsondata.decode('utf-8')
-            config = json.loads(jsonstr)
+            config = json.loads(jsondata)
 
             video_title =  config['data'][0]['title']
             seed = config['data'][0]['seed']
@@ -3355,8 +2957,7 @@ class YoukuIE(InfoExtractor):
             fileid = config['data'][0]['streamfileids'][format]
             keys = [s['k'] for s in config['data'][0]['segs'][format]]
         except (UnicodeDecodeError, ValueError, KeyError):
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract info section')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract info section')
 
         files_info=[]
         sid = self._gen_sid()
@@ -3391,47 +2992,28 @@ class XNXXIE(InfoExtractor):
     VIDEO_TITLE_RE = r'<title>(.*?)\s+-\s+XNXX.COM'
     VIDEO_THUMB_RE = r'url_bigthumb=(.*?)&amp;'
 
-    def report_webpage(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction"""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading webpage' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
-
-    def report_extraction(self, video_id):
-        """Report information extraction"""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
-
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
         video_id = mobj.group(1)
 
-        self.report_webpage(video_id)
-
         # Get webpage content
-        try:
-            webpage_bytes = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url).read()
-            webpage = webpage_bytes.decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download video webpage: %s' % err)
-            return
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
 
         result = re.search(self.VIDEO_URL_RE, webpage)
         if result is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video url')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video url')
         video_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(result.group(1))
 
         result = re.search(self.VIDEO_TITLE_RE, webpage)
         if result is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video title')
         video_title = result.group(1)
 
         result = re.search(self.VIDEO_THUMB_RE, webpage)
         if result is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video thumbnail')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video thumbnail')
         video_thumbnail = result.group(1)
 
         return [{
@@ -3452,35 +3034,31 @@ class GooglePlusIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'(?:https://)?plus\.google\.com/(?:[^/]+/)*?posts/(\w+)'
     IE_NAME = u'plus.google'
 
-    def __init__(self, downloader=None):
-        InfoExtractor.__init__(self, downloader)
-
     def report_extract_entry(self, url):
         """Report downloading extry"""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[plus.google] Downloading entry: %s' % url)
+        self.to_screen(u'Downloading entry: %s' % url)
 
     def report_date(self, upload_date):
         """Report downloading extry"""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[plus.google] Entry date: %s' % upload_date)
+        self.to_screen(u'Entry date: %s' % upload_date)
 
     def report_uploader(self, uploader):
         """Report downloading extry"""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[plus.google] Uploader: %s' % uploader)
+        self.to_screen(u'Uploader: %s' % uploader)
 
     def report_title(self, video_title):
         """Report downloading extry"""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[plus.google] Title: %s' % video_title)
+        self.to_screen(u'Title: %s' % video_title)
 
     def report_extract_vid_page(self, video_page):
         """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[plus.google] Extracting video page: %s' % video_page)
+        self.to_screen(u'Extracting video page: %s' % video_page)
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         # Extract id from URL
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         post_url = mobj.group(0)
         video_id = mobj.group(1)
@@ -3489,12 +3067,7 @@ class GooglePlusIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         # Step 1, Retrieve post webpage to extract further information
         self.report_extract_entry(post_url)
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(post_url)
-        try:
-            webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve entry webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(post_url, video_id, u'Downloading entry webpage')
 
         # Extract update date
         upload_date = None
@@ -3528,15 +3101,10 @@ class GooglePlusIE(InfoExtractor):
         pattern = '"(https\://plus\.google\.com/photos/.*?)",,"image/jpeg","video"\]'
         mobj = re.search(pattern, webpage)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video page URL')
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video page URL')
 
         video_page = mobj.group(1)
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(video_page)
-        try:
-            webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read().decode('utf-8')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(video_page, video_id, u'Downloading video page')
         self.report_extract_vid_page(video_page)
 
 
@@ -3545,7 +3113,7 @@ class GooglePlusIE(InfoExtractor):
         pattern = '\d+,\d+,(\d+),"(http\://redirector\.googlevideo\.com.*?)"'
         mobj = re.findall(pattern, webpage)
         if len(mobj) == 0:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video links')
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video links')
 
         # Sort in resolution
         links = sorted(mobj)
@@ -3577,8 +3145,7 @@ class NBAIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group(1)
         if video_id.endswith('/index.html'):
@@ -3613,34 +3180,31 @@ class JustinTVIE(InfoExtractor):
     # starts at 1 and increases. Can we treat all parts as one video?
 
     _VALID_URL = r"""(?x)^(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?(?:twitch|justin)\.tv/
-        ([^/]+)(?:/b/([^/]+))?/?(?:\#.*)?$"""
+        (?:
+            (?P<channelid>[^/]+)|
+            (?:(?:[^/]+)/b/(?P<videoid>[^/]+))|
+            (?:(?:[^/]+)/c/(?P<chapterid>[^/]+))
+        )
+        /?(?:\#.*)?$
+        """
     _JUSTIN_PAGE_LIMIT = 100
     IE_NAME = u'justin.tv'
 
-    def report_extraction(self, file_id):
-        """Report information extraction."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, file_id))
-
     def report_download_page(self, channel, offset):
         """Report attempt to download a single page of videos."""
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading video information from %d to %d' %
-                (self.IE_NAME, channel, offset, offset + self._JUSTIN_PAGE_LIMIT))
+        self.to_screen(u'%s: Downloading video information from %d to %d' %
+                (channel, offset, offset + self._JUSTIN_PAGE_LIMIT))
 
     # Return count of items, list of *valid* items
-    def _parse_page(self, url):
-        try:
-            urlh = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url)
-            webpage_bytes = urlh.read()
-            webpage = webpage_bytes.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to download video info JSON: %s' % compat_str(err))
-            return
+    def _parse_page(self, url, video_id):
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id,
+                                         u'Downloading video info JSON',
+                                         u'unable to download video info JSON')
 
         response = json.loads(webpage)
         if type(response) != list:
             error_text = response.get('error', 'unknown error')
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'Justin.tv API: %s' % error_text)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Justin.tv API: %s' % error_text)
         info = []
         for clip in response:
             video_url = clip['video_file_url']
@@ -3664,18 +3228,67 @@ class JustinTVIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
-        api = 'http://api.justin.tv'
-        video_id = mobj.group(mobj.lastindex)
+        api_base = 'http://api.justin.tv'
         paged = False
-        if mobj.lastindex == 1:
+        if mobj.group('channelid'):
             paged = True
-            api += '/channel/archives/%s.json'
+            video_id = mobj.group('channelid')
+            api = api_base + '/channel/archives/%s.json' % video_id
+        elif mobj.group('chapterid'):
+            chapter_id = mobj.group('chapterid')
+
+            webpage = self._download_webpage(url, chapter_id)
+            m = re.search(r'PP\.archive_id = "([0-9]+)";', webpage)
+            if not m:
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot find archive of a chapter')
+            archive_id = m.group(1)
+
+            api = api_base + '/broadcast/by_chapter/%s.xml' % chapter_id
+            chapter_info_xml = self._download_webpage(api, chapter_id,
+                                             note=u'Downloading chapter information',
+                                             errnote=u'Chapter information download failed')
+            doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(chapter_info_xml)
+            for a in doc.findall('.//archive'):
+                if archive_id == a.find('./id').text:
+                    break
+            else:
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Could not find chapter in chapter information')
+
+            video_url = a.find('./video_file_url').text
+            video_ext = video_url.rpartition('.')[2] or u'flv'
+
+            chapter_api_url = u'https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/videos/c' + chapter_id
+            chapter_info_json = self._download_webpage(chapter_api_url, u'c' + chapter_id,
+                                   note='Downloading chapter metadata',
+                                   errnote='Download of chapter metadata failed')
+            chapter_info = json.loads(chapter_info_json)
+
+            bracket_start = int(doc.find('.//bracket_start').text)
+            bracket_end = int(doc.find('.//bracket_end').text)
+
+            # TODO determine start (and probably fix up file)
+            #  youtube-dl -v http://www.twitch.tv/firmbelief/c/1757457
+            #video_url += u'?start=' + TODO:start_timestamp
+            # bracket_start is 13290, but we want 51670615
+            self._downloader.report_warning(u'Chapter detected, but we can just download the whole file. '
+                                            u'Chapter starts at %s and ends at %s' % (formatSeconds(bracket_start), formatSeconds(bracket_end)))
+
+            info = {
+                'id': u'c' + chapter_id,
+                'url': video_url,
+                'ext': video_ext,
+                'title': chapter_info['title'],
+                'thumbnail': chapter_info['preview'],
+                'description': chapter_info['description'],
+                'uploader': chapter_info['channel']['display_name'],
+                'uploader_id': chapter_info['channel']['name'],
+            }
+            return [info]
         else:
-            api += '/broadcast/by_archive/%s.json'
-        api = api % (video_id,)
+            video_id = mobj.group('videoid')
+            api = api_base + '/broadcast/by_archive/%s.json' % video_id
 
         self.report_extraction(video_id)
 
@@ -3686,7 +3299,7 @@ class JustinTVIE(InfoExtractor):
             if paged:
                 self.report_download_page(video_id, offset)
             page_url = api + ('?offset=%d&limit=%d' % (offset, limit))
-            page_count, page_info = self._parse_page(page_url)
+            page_count, page_info = self._parse_page(page_url, video_id)
             info.extend(page_info)
             if not paged or page_count != limit:
                 break
@@ -3699,22 +3312,21 @@ class FunnyOrDieIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group('id')
         webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
 
         m = re.search(r'<video[^>]*>\s*<source[^>]*>\s*<source src="(?P<url>[^"]+)"', webpage, re.DOTALL)
         if not m:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to find video information')
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to find video information')
         video_url = unescapeHTML(m.group('url'))
 
         m = re.search(r"<h1 class='player_page_h1'.*?>(?P<title>.*?)</h1>", webpage, flags=re.DOTALL)
         if not m:
             m = re.search(r'<title>(?P<title>[^<]+?)</title>', webpage)
             if not m:
-                self._downloader.trouble(u'Cannot find video title')
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot find video title')
         title = clean_html(m.group('title'))
 
         m = re.search(r'<meta property="og:description" content="(?P<desc>.*?)"', webpage)
@@ -3733,7 +3345,8 @@ class FunnyOrDieIE(InfoExtractor):
         return [info]
 
 class SteamIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r"""http://store.steampowered.com/
+    _VALID_URL = r"""http://store\.steampowered\.com/
+                (agecheck/)?
                 (?P<urltype>video|app)/ #If the page is only for videos or for a game
                 (?P<gameID>\d+)/?
                 (?P<videoID>\d*)(?P<extra>\??) #For urltype == video we sometimes get the videoID
@@ -3746,10 +3359,13 @@ class SteamIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         m = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url, re.VERBOSE)
-        urlRE = r"'movie_(?P<videoID>\d+)': \{\s*FILENAME: \"(?P<videoURL>[\w:/\.\?=]+)\"(,\s*MOVIE_NAME: \"(?P<videoName>[\w:/\.\?=\+-]+)\")?\s*\},"
         gameID = m.group('gameID')
-        videourl = 'http://store.steampowered.com/video/%s/' % gameID
+        videourl = 'http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/video/%s/?snr=1_agecheck_agecheck__age-gate&ageDay=1&ageMonth=January&ageYear=1970' % gameID
+        self.report_age_confirmation()
         webpage = self._download_webpage(videourl, gameID)
+        game_title = re.search(r'<h2 class="pageheader">(?P<game_title>.*?)</h2>', webpage).group('game_title')
+        
+        urlRE = r"'movie_(?P<videoID>\d+)': \{\s*FILENAME: \"(?P<videoURL>[\w:/\.\?=]+)\"(,\s*MOVIE_NAME: \"(?P<videoName>[\w:/\.\?=\+-]+)\")?\s*\},"
         mweb = re.finditer(urlRE, webpage)
         namesRE = r'<span class="title">(?P<videoName>.+?)</span>'
         titles = re.finditer(namesRE, webpage)
@@ -3762,7 +3378,7 @@ class SteamIE(InfoExtractor):
             video_url = vid.group('videoURL')
             video_thumb = thumb.group('thumbnail')
             if not video_url:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'Cannot find video url for %s' % video_id)
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot find video url for %s' % video_id)
             info = {
                 'id':video_id,
                 'url':video_url,
@@ -3771,7 +3387,7 @@ class SteamIE(InfoExtractor):
                 'thumbnail': video_thumb
                   }
             videos.append(info)
-        return videos
+        return [self.playlist_result(videos, gameID, game_title)]
 
 class UstreamIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'https?://www\.ustream\.tv/recorded/(?P<videoID>\d+)'
@@ -3796,42 +3412,35 @@ class UstreamIE(InfoExtractor):
         return [info]
 
 class WorldStarHipHopIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'http://(?:www|m)\.worldstar(?:candy|hiphop)\.com/videos/video\.php\?v=(?P<id>.*)'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www|m)\.worldstar(?:candy|hiphop)\.com/videos/video\.php\?v=(?P<id>.*)'
     IE_NAME = u'WorldStarHipHop'
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
-        _src_url = r"""(http://hw-videos.*(?:mp4|flv))"""
-
-        webpage_src = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(url).read()
-        webpage_src = webpage_src.decode('utf-8')
-
-        mobj = re.search(_src_url, webpage_src)
+        _src_url = r'so\.addVariable\("file","(.*?)"\)'
 
         m = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         video_id = m.group('id')
 
+        webpage_src = self._download_webpage(url, video_id) 
+
+        mobj = re.search(_src_url, webpage_src)
+
         if mobj is not None:
-            video_url = mobj.group()
+            video_url = mobj.group(1)
             if 'mp4' in video_url:
                 ext = 'mp4'
             else:
                 ext = 'flv'
         else:
-            self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Cannot find video url for %s' % video_id)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot find video url for %s' % video_id)
 
-        _title = r"""<title>(.*)</title>"""
-
-        mobj = re.search(_title, webpage_src)
-
-        if mobj is not None:
-            title = mobj.group(1)
-        else:
-            title = 'World Start Hip Hop - %s' % time.ctime()
+        mobj = re.search(r"<title>(.*)</title>", webpage_src)
 
-        _thumbnail = r"""rel="image_src" href="(.*)" />"""
-        mobj = re.search(_thumbnail, webpage_src)
+        if mobj is None:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot determine title')
+        title = mobj.group(1)
 
+        mobj = re.search(r'rel="image_src" href="(.*)" />', webpage_src)
         # Getting thumbnail and if not thumbnail sets correct title for WSHH candy video.
         if mobj is not None:
             thumbnail = mobj.group(1)
@@ -3908,8 +3517,7 @@ class YouPornIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group('videoid')
 
@@ -3929,7 +3537,7 @@ class YouPornIE(InfoExtractor):
             self._downloader.report_warning(u'unable to extract video date')
             upload_date = None
         else:
-            upload_date = result.group('date').strip()
+            upload_date = unified_strdate(result.group('date').strip())
 
         # Get the video uploader
         result = re.search(r'Submitted:</label>(?P<uploader>.*)</li>', webpage)
@@ -3953,7 +3561,7 @@ class YouPornIE(InfoExtractor):
         if(len(links) == 0):
             raise ExtractorError(u'ERROR: no known formats available for video')
 
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youporn] Links found: %d' % len(links))
+        self.to_screen(u'Links found: %d' % len(links))
 
         formats = []
         for link in links:
@@ -3989,7 +3597,7 @@ class YouPornIE(InfoExtractor):
             return
 
         req_format = self._downloader.params.get('format', None)
-        self._downloader.to_screen(u'[youporn] Format: %s' % req_format)
+        self.to_screen(u'Format: %s' % req_format)
 
         if req_format is None or req_format == 'best':
             return [formats[0]]
@@ -4000,8 +3608,7 @@ class YouPornIE(InfoExtractor):
         else:
             format = self._specific( req_format, formats )
             if result is None:
-                self._downloader.report_error(u'requested format not available')
-                return
+                raise ExtractorError(u'Requested format not available')
             return [format]
 
 
@@ -4013,8 +3620,7 @@ class PornotubeIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group('videoid')
         video_title = mobj.group('title')
@@ -4026,17 +3632,15 @@ class PornotubeIE(InfoExtractor):
         VIDEO_URL_RE = r'url: "(?P<url>http://video[0-9].pornotube.com/.+\.flv)",'
         result = re.search(VIDEO_URL_RE, webpage)
         if result is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video url')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video url')
         video_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(result.group('url'))
 
         #Get the uploaded date
         VIDEO_UPLOADED_RE = r'<div class="video_added_by">Added (?P<date>[0-9\/]+) by'
         result = re.search(VIDEO_UPLOADED_RE, webpage)
         if result is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract video title')
-            return
-        upload_date = result.group('date')
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video title')
+        upload_date = unified_strdate(result.group('date'))
 
         info = {'id': video_id,
                 'url': video_url,
@@ -4055,8 +3659,7 @@ class YouJizzIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group('videoid')
 
@@ -4163,12 +3766,13 @@ class KeekIE(InfoExtractor):
         return [info]
 
 class TEDIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL=r'''http://www.ted.com/
+    _VALID_URL=r'''http://www\.ted\.com/
                    (
                         ((?P<type_playlist>playlists)/(?P<playlist_id>\d+)) # We have a playlist
                         |
                         ((?P<type_talk>talks)) # We have a simple talk
                    )
+                   (/lang/(.*?))? # The url may contain the language
                    /(?P<name>\w+) # Here goes the name and then ".html"
                    '''
 
@@ -4184,8 +3788,8 @@ class TEDIE(InfoExtractor):
         else :
             playlist_id=m.group('playlist_id')
             name=m.group('name')
-            self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] Getting info of playlist %s: "%s"' % (self.IE_NAME,playlist_id,name))
-            return self._playlist_videos_info(url,name,playlist_id)
+            self.to_screen(u'Getting info of playlist %s: "%s"' % (playlist_id,name))
+            return [self._playlist_videos_info(url,name,playlist_id)]
 
     def _talk_video_link(self,mediaSlug):
         '''Returns the video link for that mediaSlug'''
@@ -4202,12 +3806,17 @@ class TEDIE(InfoExtractor):
         webpage=self._download_webpage(url, playlist_id, 'Downloading playlist webpage')
         m_videos=re.finditer(video_RE,webpage,re.VERBOSE)
         m_names=re.finditer(video_name_RE,webpage)
-        info=[]
+
+        playlist_RE = r'div class="headline">(\s*?)<h1>(\s*?)<span>(?P<playlist_title>.*?)</span>'
+        m_playlist = re.search(playlist_RE, webpage)
+        playlist_title = m_playlist.group('playlist_title')
+
+        playlist_entries = []
         for m_video, m_name in zip(m_videos,m_names):
             video_id=m_video.group('video_id')
             talk_url='http://www.ted.com%s' % m_name.group('talk_url')
-            info.append(self._talk_info(talk_url,video_id))
-        return info
+            playlist_entries.append(self.url_result(talk_url, 'TED'))
+        return self.playlist_result(playlist_entries, playlist_id = playlist_id, playlist_title = playlist_title)
 
     def _talk_info(self, url, video_id=0):
         """Return the video for the talk in the url"""
@@ -4256,14 +3865,12 @@ class MySpassIE(InfoExtractor):
         # extract values from metadata
         url_flv_el = metadata.find('url_flv')
         if url_flv_el is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract download url')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract download url')
         video_url = url_flv_el.text
         extension = os.path.splitext(video_url)[1][1:]
         title_el = metadata.find('title')
         if title_el is None:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to extract title')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
         title = title_el.text
         format_id_el = metadata.find('format_id')
         if format_id_el is None:
@@ -4332,8 +3939,7 @@ class LiveLeakIE(InfoExtractor):
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
         if mobj is None:
-            self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 
         video_id = mobj.group('video_id')
 
@@ -4341,13 +3947,12 @@ class LiveLeakIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         m = re.search(r'file: "(.*?)",', webpage)
         if not m:
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'unable to find video url')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to find video url')
         video_url = m.group(1)
 
         m = re.search(r'<meta property="og:title" content="(?P<title>.*?)"', webpage)
         if not m:
-            self._downloader.trouble(u'Cannot find video title')
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Cannot find video title')
         title = unescapeHTML(m.group('title')).replace('LiveLeak.com -', '').strip()
 
         m = re.search(r'<meta property="og:description" content="(?P<desc>.*?)"', webpage)
@@ -4394,8 +3999,7 @@ class ARDIE(InfoExtractor):
         streams = [m.groupdict() for m in re.finditer(self._MEDIA_STREAM, html)]
         if not streams:
             assert '"fsk"' in html
-            self._downloader.report_error(u'this video is only available after 8:00 pm')
-            return
+            raise ExtractorError(u'This video is only available after 8:00 pm')
 
         # choose default media type and highest quality for now
         stream = max([s for s in streams if int(s["media_type"]) == 0],
@@ -4404,7 +4008,7 @@ class ARDIE(InfoExtractor):
         # there's two possibilities: RTMP stream or HTTP download
         info = {'id': video_id, 'title': title, 'ext': 'mp4'}
         if stream['rtmp_url']:
-            self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] RTMP download detected' % self.IE_NAME)
+            self.to_screen(u'RTMP download detected')
             assert stream['video_url'].startswith('mp4:')
             info["url"] = stream["rtmp_url"]
             info["play_path"] = stream['video_url']
@@ -4413,6 +4017,145 @@ class ARDIE(InfoExtractor):
             info["url"] = stream["video_url"]
         return [info]
 
+class TumblrIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'http://(?P<blog_name>.*?)\.tumblr\.com/((post)|(video))/(?P<id>\d*)/(.*?)'
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        m_url = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = m_url.group('id')
+        blog = m_url.group('blog_name')
+
+        url = 'http://%s.tumblr.com/post/%s/' % (blog, video_id)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        re_video = r'src=\\x22(?P<video_url>http://%s\.tumblr\.com/video_file/%s/(.*?))\\x22 type=\\x22video/(?P<ext>.*?)\\x22' % (blog, video_id)
+        video = re.search(re_video, webpage)
+        if video is None:
+            self.to_screen("No video founded")
+            return []
+        video_url = video.group('video_url')
+        ext = video.group('ext')
+
+        re_thumb = r'posters(.*?)\[\\x22(?P<thumb>.*?)\\x22'  # We pick the first poster
+        thumb = re.search(re_thumb, webpage).group('thumb').replace('\\', '')
+
+        # The only place where you can get a title, it's not complete,
+        # but searching in other places doesn't work for all videos
+        re_title = r'<title>(?P<title>.*?)</title>'
+        title = unescapeHTML(re.search(re_title, webpage, re.DOTALL).group('title'))
+
+        return [{'id': video_id,
+                 'url': video_url,
+                 'title': title,
+                 'thumbnail': thumb,
+                 'ext': ext
+                 }]
+
+class BandcampIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'http://.*?\.bandcamp\.com/track/(?P<title>.*)'
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        title = mobj.group('title')
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, title)
+        # We get the link to the free download page
+        m_download = re.search(r'freeDownloadPage: "(.*?)"', webpage)
+        if m_download is None:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'No free songs founded')
+
+        download_link = m_download.group(1)
+        id = re.search(r'var TralbumData = {(.*?)id: (?P<id>\d*?)$', 
+                       webpage, re.MULTILINE|re.DOTALL).group('id')
+
+        download_webpage = self._download_webpage(download_link, id,
+                                                  'Downloading free downloads page')
+        # We get the dictionary of the track from some javascrip code
+        info = re.search(r'items: (.*?),$',
+                         download_webpage, re.MULTILINE).group(1)
+        info = json.loads(info)[0]
+        # We pick mp3-320 for now, until format selection can be easily implemented.
+        mp3_info = info[u'downloads'][u'mp3-320']
+        # If we try to use this url it says the link has expired
+        initial_url = mp3_info[u'url']
+        re_url = r'(?P<server>http://(.*?)\.bandcamp\.com)/download/track\?enc=mp3-320&fsig=(?P<fsig>.*?)&id=(?P<id>.*?)&ts=(?P<ts>.*)$'
+        m_url = re.match(re_url, initial_url)
+        #We build the url we will use to get the final track url
+        # This url is build in Bandcamp in the script download_bunde_*.js
+        request_url = '%s/statdownload/track?enc=mp3-320&fsig=%s&id=%s&ts=%s&.rand=665028774616&.vrs=1' % (m_url.group('server'), m_url.group('fsig'), id, m_url.group('ts'))
+        final_url_webpage = self._download_webpage(request_url, id, 'Requesting download url')
+        # If we could correctly generate the .rand field the url would be
+        #in the "download_url" key
+        final_url = re.search(r'"retry_url":"(.*?)"', final_url_webpage).group(1)
+
+        track_info = {'id':id,
+                      'title' : info[u'title'],
+                      'ext' : 'mp3',
+                      'url' : final_url,
+                      'thumbnail' : info[u'thumb_url'],
+                      'uploader' : info[u'artist']
+                      }
+
+        return [track_info]
+
+class RedTubeIE(InfoExtractor):
+    """Information Extractor for redtube"""
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www\.)?redtube\.com/(?P<id>[0-9]+)'
+
+    def _real_extract(self,url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        if mobj is None:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
+
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+        video_extension = 'mp4'        
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        self.report_extraction(video_id)
+        mobj = re.search(r'<source src="'+'(.+)'+'" type="video/mp4">',webpage)
+
+        if mobj is None:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
+
+        video_url = mobj.group(1)
+        mobj = re.search('<h1 class="videoTitle slidePanelMovable">(.+)</h1>',webpage)
+        if mobj is None:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
+        video_title = mobj.group(1)
+
+        return [{
+            'id':       video_id,
+            'url':      video_url,
+            'ext':      video_extension,
+            'title':    video_title,
+        }]
+        
+class InaIE(InfoExtractor):
+    """Information Extractor for Ina.fr"""
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?(?:www.)?ina\.fr/video/(?P<id>I[0-9]+)/.*'
+
+    def _real_extract(self,url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+        mrss_url='http://player.ina.fr/notices/%s.mrss' % video_id
+        video_extension = 'mp4'
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(mrss_url, video_id)
+
+        mobj = re.search(r'<media:player url="(?P<mp4url>http://mp4.ina.fr/[^"]+\.mp4)', webpage)
+        if mobj is None:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract media URL')
+        video_url = mobj.group(1)
+
+        mobj = re.search(r'<title><!\[CDATA\[(?P<titre>.*?)]]></title>', webpage)
+        if mobj is None:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract title')
+        video_title = mobj.group(1)
+
+        return [{
+            'id':       video_id,
+            'url':      video_url,
+            'ext':      video_extension,
+            'title':    video_title,
+        }]
 
 def gen_extractors():
     """ Return a list of an instance of every supported extractor.
@@ -4467,6 +4210,10 @@ def gen_extractors():
         SpiegelIE(),
         LiveLeakIE(),
         ARDIE(),
+        TumblrIE(),
+        BandcampIE(),
+        RedTubeIE(),
+        InaIE(),
         GenericIE()
     ]