diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 84b94e44..8faca42c 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ modules = [
     "seiga",
     "senmanga",
     "sensescans",
+    "slideshare",
     "spectrumnexus",
     "thebarchive",
     "tumblr",
diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/slideshare.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/slideshare.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5d1248f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/slideshare.py
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright 2016-2017 Mike Fährmann, Leonardo Taccari
+#
+# 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://www.slideshare.net/"""
+
+from .common import Extractor, Message
+from .. import text
+
+
+class SlideshareExtractor(Extractor):
+    """Extractor for images from a presentation on slideshare.net"""
+    category = "slideshare"
+    subcategory = "presentation"
+    directory_fmt = ["{category}", "{user}"]
+    filename_fmt = "{presentation}-{num}.{extension}"
+    pattern = [r"(?:https?://)?(?:www\.)?slideshare\.net/"
+               r"([^/]+)/([^/]+)"]
+    test = [
+        ("https://www.slideshare.net/Slideshare/get-started-with-slide-share", {
+            "url": "23685fb9b94b32c77a547d45dc3a82fe7579ea18",
+            "content": "ee54e54898778e92696a7afec3ffabdbd98eb0cc",
+        }),
+    ]
+
+    def __init__(self, match):
+        Extractor.__init__(self)
+        self.user, self.presentation = match.groups()
+
+    def items(self):
+        page = self.request("https://www.slideshare.net/" + self.user + "/" + self.presentation).text
+        data = self.get_job_metadata(page)
+        imgs = self.get_image_urls(page)
+        data["count"] = len(imgs)
+        yield Message.Version, 1
+        yield Message.Directory, data
+        for data["num"], url in enumerate(imgs, 1):
+            yield Message.Url, url, text.nameext_from_url(url, data)
+
+    def get_job_metadata(self, page):
+        """Collect metadata for extractor-job"""
+        metadata = {}
+
+        text.extract_all(page, (
+            ('title', '<title>', '</title>'),
+            ('description', '<meta name="description" content="', '">'),
+        ), values=metadata)
+
+        metadata["presentation"] = self.presentation
+        metadata["user"] = self.user
+
+        return metadata
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def get_image_urls(page):
+        """Extract and return a list of all image-urls"""
+        return list(text.extract_iter(page, 'data-full="', '"'))