diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 17ed69ba42..1479d998a2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ from .podomatic import PodomaticIE
 from .pornhd import PornHdIE
 from .pornhub import PornHubIE
 from .pornotube import PornotubeIE
+from .promptfile import PromptFileIE
 from .prosiebensat1 import ProSiebenSat1IE
 from .pyvideo import PyvideoIE
 from .radiofrance import RadioFranceIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/promptfile.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/promptfile.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ef49b19a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/promptfile.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    ExtractorError,
+    determine_ext,
+    compat_urllib_parse,
+    compat_urllib_request,
+)
+
+
+class PromptFileIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?promptfile\.com/l/(?P<id>[0-9A-Z\-]+)'
+    _FILE_NOT_FOUND_REGEX = r'<div.+id="not_found_msg".+>.+</div>[^-]'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.promptfile.com/l/D21B4746E9-F01462F0FF',
+        'md5': 'd1451b6302da7215485837aaea882c4c',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'D21B4746E9-F01462F0FF',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Birds.mp4',
+            'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        if re.search(self._FILE_NOT_FOUND_REGEX, webpage) is not None:
+            raise ExtractorError('Video %s does not exist' % video_id,
+                                 expected=True)
+
+        fields = dict(re.findall(r'''(?x)type="hidden"\s+
+            name="(.+?)"\s+
+            value="(.*?)"
+            ''', webpage))
+        post = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(fields)
+        req = compat_urllib_request.Request(url, post)
+        req.add_header('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(
+            req, video_id, 'Downloading video page')
+
+        url = self._html_search_regex(r'url:\s*\'([^\']+)\'', webpage, 'URL')
+        title = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'<span.+title="([^"]+)">', webpage, 'title')
+        thumbnail = self._html_search_regex(
+            r'<div id="player_overlay">.*button>.*?<img src="([^"]+)"',
+            webpage, 'thumbnail', fatal=False, flags=re.DOTALL)
+
+        formats = [{
+            'format_id': 'sd',
+            'url': url,
+            'ext': determine_ext(title),
+            'quality': 1,
+        }]
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+            'formats': formats,
+        }