diff --git a/plugins/scrape.rb b/plugins/scrape.rb
index 15a4429..0a2f92a 100644
--- a/plugins/scrape.rb
+++ b/plugins/scrape.rb
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ Client.register_trigger("PRIVMSG") do |msg|
                 url = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(word)
             end
 
-            title = Nokogiri::HTML(open(word).read(10240)).title().gsub(/[\s]+/, " ").strip
+            title = Nokogiri::HTML(open(word).read(10240)).title()
+            title = title.gsub(/[\s]+/, " ").strip if not title.nil?
 
             Scrape::Link.create(
                 :url            => url,