diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
index 3570fa165..d6ecb2d6f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ from .francetv import (
 from .freesound import FreesoundIE
 from .freespeech import FreespeechIE
 from .freshlive import FreshLiveIE
+from .frontendmaster import FrontEndMasterIE
 from .funimation import FunimationIE
 from .funk import (
     FunkMixIE,
@@ -1421,3 +1422,5 @@ from .zapiks import ZapiksIE
 from .zaq1 import Zaq1IE
 from .zdf import ZDFIE, ZDFChannelIE
 from .zingmp3 import ZingMp3IE
+
+
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/frontendmaster.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/frontendmaster.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a5235e4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/frontendmaster.py
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import json
+import re
+
+from youtube_dl.utils import try_get
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..compat import (
+    # compat_str,
+    compat_urlparse,
+    compat_str)
+
+class FrontEndMasterBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _API_BASE = 'https://api.frontendmasters.com/v1/kabuki/courses'
+
+    _supported_resolutions = {
+        'low': 360,
+        'mid': 720,
+        'high': 1080
+    }
+
+    _supported_formats = ['mp4', 'webm']
+
+    def _match_course_id(self, url):
+        if '_VALID_URL_RE' not in self.__dict__:
+            self._VALID_URL_RE = re.compile(self._VALID_URL)
+        m = self._VALID_URL_RE.match(url)
+        assert m
+        return compat_str(m.group('courseid'))
+
+    def _download_course(self, course_id, url, display_id):
+        response = self._download_json(
+            '%s/%s' % (self._API_BASE, course_id), course_id,
+            'Downloading course JSON',
+            headers={
+                'Content-Type': 'application/json;charset=utf-8',
+                'Referer': url,
+            })
+        return response
+
+
+class FrontEndMasterIE(FrontEndMasterBaseIE):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?frontendmasters\.com/courses/(?P<courseid>[a-z\-]+)/(?P<id>[a-z\-]+)/?'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'https://frontendmasters.com/courses/content-strategy/introduction/',
+        'md5': 'TODO: md5 sum of the first 10241 bytes of the video file (use --test)',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'introduction',
+            'courseid': 'content-strategy',
+            'ext': 'webm',
+            'title': 'Introduction',
+            'thumbnail': r're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
+            # TODO more properties, either as:
+            # * A value
+            # * MD5 checksum; start the string with md5:
+            # * A regular expression; start the string with re:
+            # * Any Python type (for example int or float)
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        course_id = self._match_course_id(url)
+        json_content = self._download_course(course_id=course_id, url=url, display_id=None)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        # TODO more code goes here, for example ...
+        lesson_index = json_content['lessonSlugs'].index(video_id)
+        lesson_hash = json_content['lessonHashes'][lesson_index]
+        lesson_data = json_content['lessonData'][lesson_hash]
+        lesson_source_base = lesson_data['sourceBase']
+
+        video_url_request = "%s/source?r=360&f=mp4"
+
+
+        title = lesson_data['title']
+        description = json_content['description']
+
+        # title = self._html_search_regex(r'<div class="title">(.+?)</div>', webpage, 'title')
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'description': description,
+
+            # TODO more properties (see youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
+        }
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