diff --git a/wantzel.py b/wantzel.py
index d1d6a73a2be7f227da0febbd37d0b5cbca45f508..2e2255d7b8c741f3f3b47e33c2ef4b187f2eb87e 100644
--- a/wantzel.py
+++ b/wantzel.py
@@ -110,10 +110,10 @@ def get_title(message):
         f = urllib.URLopener().open(url)
         content = f.read()
         title = re.search("<title>([^<]+)</title>", content).group(1)
+        # Unescaping HTML entities and removing multiple lines
+        title = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape(re.sub("\n|\r", "", title))
     except:
         return ("", "")
-    # Unescaping HTML entities and removing multiple lines
-    title = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape(re.sub("\n|\r", "", title))
     return (title, website)
 
 def is_moderator(name):