diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/weibo.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/weibo.py
index f8a5ee71c9..2be31fe771 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/weibo.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/weibo.py
@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 
 import json
-import random as rnd
+import random
 import re
 
 from ..compat import (
-    compat_urllib_parse_urlencode as urlencode,
-    compat_urllib_request as request,
-    compat_urlparse as parse,
+    compat_urllib_parse_urlencode,
+    compat_urlparse,
 )
 from ..utils import (
     js_to_json,
@@ -30,34 +29,28 @@ class WeiboIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         video_id = self._match_id(url)
-        headers = {
-            'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8',
-            'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
-            'Accept-Language': 'en,zh-CN;q=0.9,zh;q=0.8',
-            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.84 Safari/537.36',
-            'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
-        }
         # to get Referer url for genvisitor
-        webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle(url, video_id, headers=headers, note="first visit the page")
+        webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle(url, video_id, note="first visit the page")
 
         visitor_url = urlh.geturl()
-
-        data = urlencode({
-            "cb": "gen_callback",
-            "fp": '{"os":"2","browser":"Gecko57,0,0,0","fonts":"undefined","screenInfo":"1440*900*24","plugins":""}',
-        }).encode()
         headers = {
-            'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
-            'Accept': '*/*',
-            'Referer': visitor_url,
+            'Referer': visitor_url
         }
 
-        r_genvisitor = request.Request(
-            'https://passport.weibo.com/visitor/genvisitor',
-            data=data,
-            headers=headers,
-        )
-        webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle(r_genvisitor, video_id, note="gen visitor")
+        fp = {
+            "os": "2",
+            "browser": "Gecko57,0,0,0",
+            "fonts": "undefined",
+            "screenInfo": "1440*900*24",
+            "plugins": ""
+        }
+        data = compat_urllib_parse_urlencode({
+            "cb": "gen_callback",
+            "fp": json.dumps(fp),
+        }).encode()
+
+        genvisitor_url = 'https://passport.weibo.com/visitor/genvisitor'
+        webpage, _ = self._download_webpage_handle(genvisitor_url, video_id, data=data, headers=headers, note="gen visitor")
 
         p = webpage.split("&&")[1]  # split "gen_callback && gen_callback(...)"
         i1 = p.find('{')
@@ -67,29 +60,28 @@ class WeiboIE(InfoExtractor):
         tid = d["data"]["tid"]
         cnfd = "%03d" % d["data"]["confidence"]
 
-        param = urlencode({
+        query = {
             'a': 'incarnate',
             't': tid,
             'w': 2,
             'c': cnfd,
             'cb': 'cross_domain',
             'from': 'weibo',
-            '_rand': rnd.random()
-        })
-        gencallback_url = "https://passport.weibo.com/visitor/visitor?" + param
-        webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle(gencallback_url, video_id, note="gen callback")
+            '_rand': random.random()
+        }
+        gencallback_url = "https://passport.weibo.com/visitor/visitor"
+        self._download_webpage_handle(gencallback_url, video_id, note="gen callback", query=query)
 
-        webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle(url, video_id, headers=headers, note="retry to visit the page")
+        webpage, _ = self._download_webpage_handle(url, video_id, note="retry to visit the page")
 
-        # TODO more code goes here, for example ...
         title = self._html_search_regex(r'<title>(.+?)</title>', webpage, 'title')
 
         video_sources_text = self._search_regex(r'video-sources=\\\"(.+?)\"', webpage, 'video_sources')
 
-        video_formats = parse.parse_qs(video_sources_text)
+        video_formats = compat_urlparse.parse_qs(video_sources_text)
 
         formats = []
-        supported_resolutions = ['720', '480']
+        supported_resolutions = ('720', '480')
         for res in supported_resolutions:
             f = video_formats.get(res)
             if isinstance(f, list):
@@ -107,12 +99,11 @@ class WeiboIE(InfoExtractor):
             'title': title,
             'uploader': uploader,
             'formats': formats
-            # TODO more properties (see youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
         }
 
 
 class WeiboMobileIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://m.weibo.cn/status/(?P<id>[0-9]+)(\?.+)?'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://m\.weibo\.cn/status/(?P<id>[0-9]+)(\?.+)?'
     _TEST = {
         'url': 'https://m.weibo.cn/status/4189191225395228?wm=3333_2001&sourcetype=weixin&featurecode=newtitle&from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0',
         'info_dict': {
@@ -125,29 +116,17 @@ class WeiboMobileIE(InfoExtractor):
 
     def _real_extract(self, url):
         video_id = self._match_id(url)
-        headers = {
-            'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8',
-            'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br',
-            'Accept-Language': 'en,zh-CN;q=0.9,zh;q=0.8',
-            'Upgrade-Insecure-Requests': '1',
-        }
         # to get Referer url for genvisitor
-        webpage, urlh = self._download_webpage_handle(url, video_id, headers=headers, note="visit the page")
+        webpage, _ = self._download_webpage_handle(url, video_id, note="visit the page")
         js_code = self._search_regex(r'var\s+\$render_data\s*=\s*\[({.*})\]\[0\] \|\| {};', webpage, 'js_code', flags=re.DOTALL)
         weibo_info = self._parse_json(js_code, video_id, transform_source=js_to_json)
         page_info = weibo_info['status']['page_info']
-        title = weibo_info['status']['status_title']
-        format = {
-            'url': page_info['media_info']['stream_url'],
-            'format': 'mp4',
-        }
-        formats = [format]
-        uploader = weibo_info['status']['user']['screen_name']
+        title = weibo_info.get('status').get('status_title')
+        uploader = weibo_info.get('status').get('user').get('screen_name')
 
         return {
             'id': video_id,
             'title': title,
             'uploader': uploader,
-            'formats': formats
-            # TODO more properties (see youtube_dl/extractor/common.py)
+            'url': page_info['media_info']['stream_url']
         }