diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index e6b7be1106..1d4ebea419 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -3608,7 +3608,126 @@ class InfoQIE(InfoExtractor):
 		except UnavailableVideoError, err:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download ' + video_url)
 
+class MixcloudIE(InfoExtractor):
+	"""Information extractor for www.mixcloud.com"""
+	_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))
+
+	def get_urls(self, jsonData, fmt, bitrate='best'):
+		"""Get urls from 'audio_formats' section in json"""
+		file_url = None
+		try:
+			bitrate_list = jsonData[fmt]
+			if bitrate is None or bitrate == 'best' or bitrate not in bitrate_list:
+				bitrate = max(bitrate_list) # select highest
+
+			url_list = jsonData[fmt][bitrate]
+		except TypeError: # we have no bitrate info.
+			url_list = jsonData[fmt]
+				
+		return url_list
+			
+	def check_urls(self, url_list):
+		"""Returns 1st active url from list"""
+		for url in url_list:
+			try:
+				urllib2.urlopen(url)
+				return url
+			except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+				url = None
+
+		return None
+
+	def _print_formats(self, formats):
+		print 'Available formats:'
+		for fmt in formats.keys():
+			for b in formats[fmt]:
+				try:
+					ext = formats[fmt][b][0]
+					print '%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, b, ext.split('.')[-1])
+				except TypeError: # we have no bitrate info
+					ext = formats[fmt][0]
+					print '%s\t%s\t[%s]' % (fmt, '??', ext.split('.')[-1])
+					break
+
+	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
+		# extract uploader & filename from url
+		uploader = mobj.group(1).decode('utf-8')
+		file_id = uploader + "-" + mobj.group(2).decode('utf-8')
+
+		# construct API request
+		file_url = 'http://www.mixcloud.com/api/1/cloudcast/' + '/'.join(url.split('/')[-3:-1]) + '.json'
+		# retrieve .json file with links to files
+		request = urllib2.Request(file_url)
+		try:
+			self.report_download_json(file_url)
+			jsonData = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Unable to retrieve file: %s' % str(err))
+			return
+
+		# parse JSON
+		json_data = json.loads(jsonData)
+		player_url = json_data['player_swf_url']
+		formats = dict(json_data['audio_formats'])
+
+		req_format = self._downloader.params.get('format', None)
+		bitrate = None
+
+		if self._downloader.params.get('listformats', None):
+			self._print_formats(formats)
+			return
+
+		if req_format is None or req_format == 'best':
+			for format_param in formats.keys():
+				url_list = self.get_urls(formats, format_param)
+				# check urls
+				file_url = self.check_urls(url_list)
+				if file_url is not None:
+					break # got it!
+		else:
+			if req_format not in formats.keys():
+				self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: format is not available')
+				return
+
+			url_list = self.get_urls(formats, req_format)
+			file_url = self.check_urls(url_list)
+			format_param = req_format
+
+		# We have audio
+		self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+		try:
+			# Process file information
+			self._downloader.process_info({
+				'id':		file_id.decode('utf-8'),
+				'url':		file_url.decode('utf-8'),
+				'uploader':	uploader.decode('utf-8'),
+				'upload_date':	u'NA',
+				'title':	json_data['name'],
+				'stitle':	_simplify_title(json_data['name']),
+				'ext':		file_url.split('.')[-1].decode('utf-8'),
+				'format':	(format_param is None and u'NA' or format_param.decode('utf-8')),
+				'thumbnail':    json_data['thumbnail_url'],
+				'description':  json_data['description'],
+				'player_url':	player_url.decode('utf-8'),
+			})
+		except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download file')
 
 class PostProcessor(object):
 	"""Post Processor class.
@@ -4008,6 +4127,7 @@ def gen_extractors():
 		XVideosIE(),
 		SoundcloudIE(),
 		InfoQIE(),
+		MixcloudIE(),
 
 		GenericIE()
 	]