diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index a80569f5..e5263ff3 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ modules = [
     "danbooru",
     "deviantart",
     "e621",
+    "hitomi",
     "imagebam",
     "imgbox",
     "imgchili",
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/hitomi.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/hitomi.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1a1ce3a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/hitomi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright 2015 Mike Fährmann
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+"""Extract images from https://hitomi.la/"""
+
+from .common import Extractor, Message
+from .. import text
+import os.path
+
+info = {
+    "category": "hitomi",
+    "extractor": "HitomiExtractor",
+    "directory": ["{category}", "{gallery-id} {title}"],
+    "filename": "{category}_{gallery-id}_{num:>03}_{name}.{extension}",
+    "pattern": [
+        r"(?:https?://)?hitomi\.la/(?:galleries|reader)/(\d+)\.html",
+    ],
+}
+
+class HitomiExtractor(Extractor):
+
+    def __init__(self, match):
+        Extractor.__init__(self)
+        self.gid = match.group(1)
+
+    def items(self):
+        page = self.request("https://hitomi.la/galleries/" + self.gid + ".html").text
+        data = self.get_job_metadata(page)
+        images = self.get_image_urls(page)
+        data["count"] = len(images)
+        yield Message.Version, 1
+        yield Message.Directory, data
+        for num, url in enumerate(images, 1):
+            name, ext = os.path.splitext(text.filename_from_url(url))
+            data["num"] = num
+            data["name"] = name
+            data["extension"] = ext[1:]
+            yield Message.Url, url, data
+
+    def get_job_metadata(self, page):
+        """Collect metadata for extractor-job"""
+        _     , pos = text.extract(page, '<h1><a href="/reader/', '')
+        title , pos = text.extract(page, '.html">', "</a></h1>", pos)
+        _     , pos = text.extract(page, '<li><a href="/artist/', '', pos)
+        artist, pos = text.extract(page, '.html">', '</a</li>', pos)
+        return {
+            "category": info["category"],
+            "gallery-id": self.gid,
+            "title": title,
+            "artist": artist,
+        }
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_image_urls(page):
+        """Extract and return a list of all image-urls"""
+        pos = 0
+        images = list()
+        while True:
+            urlpart, pos = text.extract(page, "'//tn.hitomi.la/smalltn/", ".jpg',", pos)
+            if not urlpart:
+                return images
+            images.append("https://g.hitomi.la/galleries/" + urlpart)