diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index c3d0e61913..9830102347 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ from .extractor.photobucket import PhotobucketIE
 from .extractor.pornotube import PornotubeIE
 from .extractor.rbmaradio import RBMARadioIE
 from .extractor.soundcloud import SoundcloudIE, SoundcloudSetIE
+from .extractor.spiegel import SpiegelIE
 from .extractor.stanfordoc import StanfordOpenClassroomIE
 from .extractor.steam import SteamIE
 from .extractor.ted import TEDIE
@@ -90,37 +91,6 @@ from .extractor.zdf import ZDFIE
 
 
 
-class SpiegelIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?spiegel\.de/video/[^/]*-(?P<videoID>[0-9]+)(?:\.html)?(?:#.*)?$'
-
-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        m = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
-        video_id = m.group('videoID')
-
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-
-        video_title = self._html_search_regex(r'<div class="module-title">(.*?)</div>',
-            webpage, u'title')
-
-        xml_url = u'http://video2.spiegel.de/flash/' + video_id + u'.xml'
-        xml_code = self._download_webpage(xml_url, video_id,
-                    note=u'Downloading XML', errnote=u'Failed to download XML')
-
-        idoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(xml_code)
-        last_type = idoc[-1]
-        filename = last_type.findall('./filename')[0].text
-        duration = float(last_type.findall('./duration')[0].text)
-
-        video_url = 'http://video2.spiegel.de/flash/' + filename
-        video_ext = filename.rpartition('.')[2]
-        info = {
-            'id': video_id,
-            'url': video_url,
-            'ext': video_ext,
-            'title': video_title,
-            'duration': duration,
-        }
-        return [info]
 
 class LiveLeakIE(InfoExtractor):
 
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/spiegel.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/spiegel.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98a65b78ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/spiegel.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import re
+import xml.etree.ElementTree
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+
+class SpiegelIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?spiegel\.de/video/[^/]*-(?P<videoID>[0-9]+)(?:\.html)?(?:#.*)?$'
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        m = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = m.group('videoID')
+
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        video_title = self._html_search_regex(r'<div class="module-title">(.*?)</div>',
+            webpage, u'title')
+
+        xml_url = u'http://video2.spiegel.de/flash/' + video_id + u'.xml'
+        xml_code = self._download_webpage(xml_url, video_id,
+                    note=u'Downloading XML', errnote=u'Failed to download XML')
+
+        idoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(xml_code)
+        last_type = idoc[-1]
+        filename = last_type.findall('./filename')[0].text
+        duration = float(last_type.findall('./duration')[0].text)
+
+        video_url = 'http://video2.spiegel.de/flash/' + filename
+        video_ext = filename.rpartition('.')[2]
+        info = {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'url': video_url,
+            'ext': video_ext,
+            'title': video_title,
+            'duration': duration,
+        }
+        return [info]