diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index e49ac3e527..f3575b6c97 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ from .smotri import (
     SmotriUserIE,
     SmotriBroadcastIE,
 )
+from .sockshare import SockshareIE
 from .sohu import SohuIE
 from .soundcloud import (
     SoundcloudIE,
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/sockshare.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/sockshare.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cbf2d7abef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/sockshare.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from ..utils import (
+    ExtractorError,
+    compat_urllib_parse,
+    compat_urllib_request,
+    determine_ext,
+)
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+
+class SockshareIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?sockshare\.com/file/(?P<id>[0-9A-Za-z]+)'
+    _FILE_DELETED_REGEX = r'This file doesn\'t exist, or has been removed\.</div>'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.sockshare.com/file/437BE28B89D799D7',
+        'md5': '9d0bf1cfb6dbeaa8d562f6c97506c5bd',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '437BE28B89D799D7',
+            'title': 'big_buck_bunny_720p_surround.avi',
+            'ext': 'avi',
+            'thumbnail': 're:^http://.*\.jpg$',
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+
+        url = 'http://sockshare.com/file/%s' % video_id
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        if re.search(self._FILE_DELETED_REGEX, webpage) is not None:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Video %s does not exist' % video_id,
+                                 expected=True)
+
+        confirm_hash = self._html_search_regex(r'''(?x)<input\s+
+            type="hidden"\s+
+            value="([^"]*)"\s+
+            name="hash"
+            ''', webpage, 'hash')
+
+        fields = {
+            "hash": confirm_hash,
+            "confirm": "Continue as Free User"
+        }
+
+        post = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(fields)
+        req = compat_urllib_request.Request(url, post)
+        # Apparently, this header is required for confirmation to work.
+        req.add_header('Host', 'www.sockshare.com')
+        req.add_header('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
+
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(req, video_id, 'Downloading video page')
+
+        video_url = self._html_search_regex(r'<a href="([^"]*)".+class="download_file_link"', webpage, 'file url')
+        video_url = "http://www.sockshare.com" + video_url
+        title = self._html_search_regex(r'<h1>(.+)<strong>', webpage, 'title')
+        thumbnail = self._html_search_regex(r'<img\ssrc="([^"]*)".+name="bg"',
+                                            webpage, 'thumbnail')
+        ext = determine_ext(title)
+
+        formats = [{
+            'format_id': 'sd',
+            'url': video_url,
+            'ext': ext,
+        }]
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+            'formats': formats,
+        }