diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/tudou.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/tudou.py
index 6116b209d..3b993192c 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/tudou.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/tudou.py
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ def _url_for_id(self, video_id, quality=None):
         info_url = "http://v2.tudou.com/f?id=" + str(video_id)
         if quality:
             info_url += '&hd' + quality
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(info_url, video_id, "Opening the info webpage")
-        final_url = self._html_search_regex('>(.+?)</f>', webpage, 'video url')
+        xml_data = self._download_xml(info_url, video_id, "Opening the info XML page")
+        final_url = xml_data.text
         return final_url
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):