diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/abematv.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/abematv.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..66b12c72f
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+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/abematv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,488 @@
+import io
+import json
+import time
+import hashlib
+import hmac
+import re
+import struct
+from base64 import urlsafe_b64encode
+from binascii import unhexlify
+
+import typing
+if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from ..YoutubeDL import YoutubeDL
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..aes import aes_ecb_decrypt
+from ..compat import (
+    compat_urllib_response,
+    compat_urllib_parse_urlparse,
+    compat_urllib_request,
+)
+from ..utils import (
+    ExtractorError,
+    decode_base,
+    int_or_none,
+    random_uuidv4,
+    request_to_url,
+    time_seconds,
+    update_url_query,
+    traverse_obj,
+    intlist_to_bytes,
+    bytes_to_intlist,
+    urljoin,
+)
+
+
+# NOTE: network handler related code is temporary thing until network stack overhaul PRs are merged (#2861/#2862)
+
+def add_opener(self: 'YoutubeDL', handler):
+    ''' Add a handler for opening URLs, like _download_webpage '''
+    # https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/urllib/request.py#L426
+    # https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/urllib/request.py#L605
+    assert isinstance(self._opener, compat_urllib_request.OpenerDirector)
+    self._opener.add_handler(handler)
+
+
+def remove_opener(self: 'YoutubeDL', handler):
+    '''
+    Remove handler(s) for opening URLs
+    @param handler Either handler object itself or handler type.
+    Specifying handler type will remove all handler which isinstance returns True.
+    '''
+    # https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/urllib/request.py#L426
+    # https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/urllib/request.py#L605
+    opener = self._opener
+    assert isinstance(self._opener, compat_urllib_request.OpenerDirector)
+    if isinstance(handler, (type, tuple)):
+        find_cp = lambda x: isinstance(x, handler)
+    else:
+        find_cp = lambda x: x is handler
+
+    removed = []
+    for meth in dir(handler):
+        if meth in ["redirect_request", "do_open", "proxy_open"]:
+            # oops, coincidental match
+            continue
+
+        i = meth.find("_")
+        protocol = meth[:i]
+        condition = meth[i + 1:]
+
+        if condition.startswith("error"):
+            j = condition.find("_") + i + 1
+            kind = meth[j + 1:]
+            try:
+                kind = int(kind)
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
+            lookup = opener.handle_error.get(protocol, {})
+            opener.handle_error[protocol] = lookup
+        elif condition == "open":
+            kind = protocol
+            lookup = opener.handle_open
+        elif condition == "response":
+            kind = protocol
+            lookup = opener.process_response
+        elif condition == "request":
+            kind = protocol
+            lookup = opener.process_request
+        else:
+            continue
+
+        handlers = lookup.setdefault(kind, [])
+        if handlers:
+            handlers[:] = [x for x in handlers if not find_cp(x)]
+
+        removed.append(x for x in handlers if find_cp(x))
+
+    if removed:
+        for x in opener.handlers:
+            if find_cp(x):
+                x.add_parent(None)
+        opener.handlers[:] = [x for x in opener.handlers if not find_cp(x)]
+
+
+class AbemaLicenseHandler(compat_urllib_request.BaseHandler):
+    handler_order = 499
+    STRTABLE = '123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz'
+    HKEY = b'3AF0298C219469522A313570E8583005A642E73EDD58E3EA2FB7339D3DF1597E'
+
+    def __init__(self, ie: 'AbemaTVIE'):
+        # the protcol that this should really handle is 'abematv-license://'
+        # abematv_license_open is just a placeholder for development purposes
+        # ref. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/f4c03484da59049eb62a9bf7777b963e2267d187/Lib/urllib/request.py#L510
+        setattr(self, 'abematv-license_open', getattr(self, 'abematv_license_open'))
+        self.ie = ie
+
+    def _get_videokey_from_ticket(self, ticket):
+        to_show = self.ie._downloader.params.get('verbose', False)
+        media_token = self.ie._get_media_token(to_show=to_show)
+
+        license_response = self.ie._download_json(
+            'https://license.abema.io/abematv-hls', None, note='Requesting playback license' if to_show else False,
+            query={'t': media_token},
+            data=json.dumps({
+                'kv': 'a',
+                'lt': ticket
+            }).encode('utf-8'),
+            headers={
+                'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+            })
+
+        res = decode_base(license_response['k'], self.STRTABLE)
+        encvideokey = bytes_to_intlist(struct.pack('>QQ', res >> 64, res & 0xffffffffffffffff))
+
+        h = hmac.new(
+            unhexlify(self.HKEY),
+            (license_response['cid'] + self.ie._DEVICE_ID).encode('utf-8'),
+            digestmod=hashlib.sha256)
+        enckey = bytes_to_intlist(h.digest())
+
+        return intlist_to_bytes(aes_ecb_decrypt(encvideokey, enckey))
+
+    def abematv_license_open(self, url):
+        url = request_to_url(url)
+        ticket = compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(url).netloc
+        response_data = self._get_videokey_from_ticket(ticket)
+        return compat_urllib_response.addinfourl(io.BytesIO(response_data), headers={
+            'Content-Length': len(response_data),
+        }, url=url, code=200)
+
+
+class AbemaTVBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
+    def _extract_breadcrumb_list(self, webpage, video_id):
+        for jld in re.finditer(
+                r'(?is)</span></li></ul><script[^>]+type=(["\']?)application/ld\+json\1[^>]*>(?P<json_ld>.+?)</script>',
+                webpage):
+            jsonld = self._parse_json(jld.group('json_ld'), video_id, fatal=False)
+            if jsonld:
+                if jsonld.get('@type') != 'BreadcrumbList':
+                    continue
+                trav = traverse_obj(jsonld, ('itemListElement', ..., 'name'))
+                if trav:
+                    return trav
+        return []
+
+
+class AbemaTVIE(AbemaTVBaseIE):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://abema\.tv/(?P<type>now-on-air|video/episode|channels/.+?/slots)/(?P<id>[^?/]+)'
+    _NETRC_MACHINE = 'abematv'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'https://abema.tv/video/episode/194-25_s2_p1',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '194-25_s2_p1',
+            'title': '第1話 「チーズケーキ」　「モーニング再び」',
+            'series': '異世界食堂２',
+            'series_number': 2,
+            'episode': '第1話 「チーズケーキ」　「モーニング再び」',
+            'episode_number': 1,
+        },
+        'skip': 'expired',
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://abema.tv/channels/anime-live2/slots/E8tvAnMJ7a9a5d',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'E8tvAnMJ7a9a5d',
+            'title': 'ゆるキャン△ SEASON２ 全話一挙【無料ビデオ72時間】',
+            'series': 'ゆるキャン△ SEASON２',
+            'episode': 'ゆるキャン△ SEASON２ 全話一挙【無料ビデオ72時間】',
+            'series_number': 2,
+            'episode_number': 1,
+            'description': 'md5:9c5a3172ae763278f9303922f0ea5b17',
+        },
+        'skip': 'expired',
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://abema.tv/video/episode/87-877_s1282_p31047',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'E8tvAnMJ7a9a5d',
+            'title': '第5話『光射す』',
+            'description': 'md5:56d4fc1b4f7769ded5f923c55bb4695d',
+            'thumbnail': r're:https://hayabusa\.io/.+',
+            'series': '相棒',
+            'episode': '第5話『光射す』',
+        },
+        'skip': 'expired',
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://abema.tv/now-on-air/abema-anime',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'abema-anime',
+            # this varies
+            # 'title': '女子高生の無駄づかい 全話一挙【無料ビデオ72時間】',
+            'description': 'md5:55f2e61f46a17e9230802d7bcc913d5f',
+            'is_live': True,
+        },
+        'skip': 'Not supported until yt-dlp implements native live downloader OR AbemaTV can start a local HTTP server',
+    }]
+    _USERTOKEN = None
+    _DEVICE_ID = None
+    _TIMETABLE = None
+    _MEDIATOKEN = None
+
+    _SECRETKEY = b'v+Gjs=25Aw5erR!J8ZuvRrCx*rGswhB&qdHd_SYerEWdU&a?3DzN9BRbp5KwY4hEmcj5#fykMjJ=AuWz5GSMY-d@H7DMEh3M@9n2G552Us$$k9cD=3TxwWe86!x#Zyhe'
+
+    def _generate_aks(self, deviceid):
+        deviceid = deviceid.encode('utf-8')
+        # add 1 hour and then drop minute and secs
+        ts_1hour = int((time_seconds(hours=9) // 3600 + 1) * 3600)
+        time_struct = time.gmtime(ts_1hour)
+        ts_1hour_str = str(ts_1hour).encode('utf-8')
+
+        tmp = None
+
+        def mix_once(nonce):
+            nonlocal tmp
+            h = hmac.new(self._SECRETKEY, digestmod=hashlib.sha256)
+            h.update(nonce)
+            tmp = h.digest()
+
+        def mix_tmp(count):
+            nonlocal tmp
+            for i in range(count):
+                mix_once(tmp)
+
+        def mix_twist(nonce):
+            nonlocal tmp
+            mix_once(urlsafe_b64encode(tmp).rstrip(b'=') + nonce)
+
+        mix_once(self._SECRETKEY)
+        mix_tmp(time_struct.tm_mon)
+        mix_twist(deviceid)
+        mix_tmp(time_struct.tm_mday % 5)
+        mix_twist(ts_1hour_str)
+        mix_tmp(time_struct.tm_hour % 5)
+
+        return urlsafe_b64encode(tmp).rstrip(b'=').decode('utf-8')
+
+    def _get_device_token(self):
+        if self._USERTOKEN:
+            return self._USERTOKEN
+
+        self._DEVICE_ID = random_uuidv4()
+        aks = self._generate_aks(self._DEVICE_ID)
+        user_data = self._download_json(
+            'https://api.abema.io/v1/users', None, note='Authorizing',
+            data=json.dumps({
+                'deviceId': self._DEVICE_ID,
+                'applicationKeySecret': aks,
+            }).encode('utf-8'),
+            headers={
+                'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+            })
+        self._USERTOKEN = user_data['token']
+
+        # don't allow adding it 2 times or more, though it's guarded
+        remove_opener(self._downloader, AbemaLicenseHandler)
+        add_opener(self._downloader, AbemaLicenseHandler(self))
+
+        return self._USERTOKEN
+
+    def _get_media_token(self, invalidate=False, to_show=True):
+        if not invalidate and self._MEDIATOKEN:
+            return self._MEDIATOKEN
+
+        self._MEDIATOKEN = self._download_json(
+            'https://api.abema.io/v1/media/token', None, note='Fetching media token' if to_show else False,
+            query={
+                'osName': 'android',
+                'osVersion': '6.0.1',
+                'osLang': 'ja_JP',
+                'osTimezone': 'Asia/Tokyo',
+                'appId': 'tv.abema',
+                'appVersion': '3.27.1'
+            }, headers={
+                'Authorization': 'bearer ' + self._get_device_token()
+            })['token']
+
+        return self._MEDIATOKEN
+
+    def _real_initialize(self):
+        self._login()
+
+    def _login(self):
+        username, password = self._get_login_info()
+        # No authentication to be performed
+        if not username:
+            return True
+
+        if '@' in username:  # don't strictly check if it's email address or not
+            ep, method = 'user/email', 'email'
+        else:
+            ep, method = 'oneTimePassword', 'userId'
+
+        login_response = self._download_json(
+            f'https://api.abema.io/v1/auth/{ep}', None, note='Logging in',
+            data=json.dumps({
+                method: username,
+                'password': password
+            }).encode('utf-8'), headers={
+                'Authorization': 'bearer ' + self._get_device_token(),
+                'Origin': 'https://abema.tv',
+                'Referer': 'https://abema.tv/',
+                'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+            })
+
+        self._USERTOKEN = login_response['token']
+        self._get_media_token(True)
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        # starting download using infojson from this extractor is undefined behavior,
+        # and never be fixed in the future; you must trigger downloads by directly specifing URL.
+        # (unless there's a way to hook before downloading by extractor)
+        video_id, video_type = self._match_valid_url(url).group('id', 'type')
+        headers = {
+            'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + self._get_device_token(),
+        }
+        video_type = video_type.split('/')[-1]
+
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        canonical_url = self._search_regex(
+            r'<link\s+rel="canonical"\s*href="(.+?)"', webpage, 'canonical URL',
+            default=url)
+        info = self._search_json_ld(webpage, video_id, default={})
+
+        title = self._search_regex(
+            r'<span\s*class=".+?EpisodeTitleBlock__title">(.+?)</span>', webpage, 'title', default=None)
+        if not title:
+            jsonld = None
+            for jld in re.finditer(
+                    r'(?is)<span\s*class="com-m-Thumbnail__image">(?:</span>)?<script[^>]+type=(["\']?)application/ld\+json\1[^>]*>(?P<json_ld>.+?)</script>',
+                    webpage):
+                jsonld = self._parse_json(jld.group('json_ld'), video_id, fatal=False)
+                if jsonld:
+                    break
+            if jsonld:
+                title = jsonld.get('caption')
+        if not title and video_type == 'now-on-air':
+            if not self._TIMETABLE:
+                # cache the timetable because it goes to 5MiB in size (!!)
+                self._TIMETABLE = self._download_json(
+                    'https://api.abema.io/v1/timetable/dataSet?debug=false', video_id,
+                    headers=headers)
+            now = time_seconds(hours=9)
+            for slot in self._TIMETABLE.get('slots', []):
+                if slot.get('channelId') != video_id:
+                    continue
+                if slot['startAt'] <= now and now < slot['endAt']:
+                    title = slot['title']
+                    break
+
+        # read breadcrumb on top of page
+        breadcrumb = self._extract_breadcrumb_list(webpage, video_id)
+        if breadcrumb:
+            # breadcrumb list translates to: (example is 1st test for this IE)
+            # Home > Anime (genre) > Isekai Shokudo 2 (series name) > Episode 1 "Cheese cakes" "Morning again" (episode title)
+            # hence this works
+            info['series'] = breadcrumb[-2]
+            info['episode'] = breadcrumb[-1]
+            if not title:
+                title = info['episode']
+
+        description = self._html_search_regex(
+            (r'<p\s+class="com-video-EpisodeDetailsBlock__content"><span\s+class=".+?">(.+?)</span></p><div',
+             r'<span\s+class=".+?SlotSummary.+?">(.+?)</span></div><div',),
+            webpage, 'description', default=None, group=1)
+        if not description:
+            og_desc = self._html_search_meta(
+                ('description', 'og:description', 'twitter:description'), webpage)
+            if og_desc:
+                description = re.sub(r'''(?sx)
+                    ^(.+?)(?:
+                        アニメの動画を無料で見るならABEMA！| # anime
+                        等、.+ # applies for most of categories
+                    )?
+                ''', r'\1', og_desc)
+
+        # canonical URL may contain series and episode number
+        mobj = re.search(r's(\d+)_p(\d+)$', canonical_url)
+        if mobj:
+            seri = int_or_none(mobj.group(1), default=float('inf'))
+            epis = int_or_none(mobj.group(2), default=float('inf'))
+            info['series_number'] = seri if seri < 100 else None
+            # some anime like Detective Conan (though not available in AbemaTV)
+            # has more than 1000 episodes (1026 as of 2021/11/15)
+            info['episode_number'] = epis if epis < 2000 else None
+
+        is_live, m3u8_url = False, None
+        if video_type == 'now-on-air':
+            is_live = True
+            channel_url = 'https://api.abema.io/v1/channels'
+            if video_id == 'news-global':
+                channel_url = update_url_query(channel_url, {'division': '1'})
+            onair_channels = self._download_json(channel_url, video_id)
+            for ch in onair_channels['channels']:
+                if video_id == ch['id']:
+                    m3u8_url = ch['playback']['hls']
+                    break
+            else:
+                raise ExtractorError(f'Cannot find on-air {video_id} channel.', expected=True)
+        elif video_type == 'episode':
+            api_response = self._download_json(
+                f'https://api.abema.io/v1/video/programs/{video_id}', video_id,
+                note='Checking playability',
+                headers=headers)
+            ondemand_types = traverse_obj(api_response, ('terms', ..., 'onDemandType'), default=[])
+            if 3 not in ondemand_types:
+                # cannot acquire decryption key for these streams
+                self.report_warning('This is a premium-only stream')
+
+            m3u8_url = f'https://vod-abematv.akamaized.net/program/{video_id}/playlist.m3u8'
+        elif video_type == 'slots':
+            api_response = self._download_json(
+                f'https://api.abema.io/v1/media/slots/{video_id}', video_id,
+                note='Checking playability',
+                headers=headers)
+            if not traverse_obj(api_response, ('slot', 'flags', 'timeshiftFree'), default=False):
+                self.report_warning('This is a premium-only stream')
+
+            m3u8_url = f'https://vod-abematv.akamaized.net/slot/{video_id}/playlist.m3u8'
+        else:
+            raise ExtractorError('Unreachable')
+
+        if is_live:
+            self.report_warning("This is a livestream; yt-dlp doesn't support downloading natively, but FFmpeg cannot handle m3u8 manifests from AbemaTV")
+            self.report_warning('Please consider using Streamlink to download these streams (https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink)')
+        formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(
+            m3u8_url, video_id, ext='mp4', live=is_live)
+
+        info.update({
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'description': description,
+            'formats': formats,
+            'is_live': is_live,
+        })
+        return info
+
+
+class AbemaTVTitleIE(AbemaTVBaseIE):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://abema\.tv/video/title/(?P<id>[^?/]+)'
+
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'https://abema.tv/video/title/90-1597',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '90-1597',
+            'title': 'シャッフルアイランド',
+        },
+        'playlist_mincount': 2,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://abema.tv/video/title/193-132',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '193-132',
+            'title': '真心が届く~僕とスターのオフィス・ラブ!?~',
+        },
+        'playlist_mincount': 16,
+    }]
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        playlist_title, breadcrumb = None, self._extract_breadcrumb_list(webpage, video_id)
+        if breadcrumb:
+            playlist_title = breadcrumb[-1]
+
+        playlist = [
+            self.url_result(urljoin('https://abema.tv/', mobj.group(1)))
+            for mobj in re.finditer(r'<li\s*class=".+?EpisodeList.+?"><a\s*href="(/[^"]+?)"', webpage)]
+
+        return self.playlist_result(playlist, playlist_title=playlist_title, playlist_id=video_id)
diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/extractors.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/extractors.py
index 7d4262acf..fafa56d7b 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ from .abcotvs import (
     ABCOTVSIE,
     ABCOTVSClipsIE,
 )
+from .abematv import (
+    AbemaTVIE,
+    AbemaTVTitleIE,
+)
 from .academicearth import AcademicEarthCourseIE
 from .acast import (
     ACastIE,
diff --git a/yt_dlp/utils.py b/yt_dlp/utils.py
index 8b0d95efa..012a115ba 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/utils.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/utils.py
@@ -2554,6 +2554,13 @@ def url_or_none(url):
     return url if re.match(r'^(?:(?:https?|rt(?:m(?:pt?[es]?|fp)|sp[su]?)|mms|ftps?):)?//', url) else None
 
 
+def request_to_url(req):
+    if isinstance(req, compat_urllib_request.Request):
+        return req.get_full_url()
+    else:
+        return req
+
+
 def strftime_or_none(timestamp, date_format, default=None):
     datetime_object = None
     try:
@@ -5172,6 +5179,22 @@ def variadic(x, allowed_types=(str, bytes, dict)):
     return x if isinstance(x, collections.abc.Iterable) and not isinstance(x, allowed_types) else (x,)
 
 
+def decode_base(value, digits):
+    # This will convert given base-x string to scalar (long or int)
+    table = {char: index for index, char in enumerate(digits)}
+    result = 0
+    base = len(digits)
+    for chr in value:
+        result *= base
+        result += table[chr]
+    return result
+
+
+def time_seconds(**kwargs):
+    t = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(**kwargs)))
+    return t.timestamp()
+
+
 # create a JSON Web Signature (jws) with HS256 algorithm
 # the resulting format is in JWS Compact Serialization
 # implemented following JWT https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7519.html