diff --git a/src/node/utils/ImportHtml.js b/src/node/utils/ImportHtml.js
index 7c638fb8c..322e567e6 100644
--- a/src/node/utils/ImportHtml.js
+++ b/src/node/utils/ImportHtml.js
@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@ function setPadHTML(pad, html, callback)
var padText = pad.text();
// Parse the incoming HTML with jsdom
- var doc = jsdom(html.replace(/>\n+<'));
+ try{
+ var doc = jsdom(html.replace(/>\n+<'));
+ }catch(e){
+ apiLogger.warn("Error importing, possibly caused by malformed HTML");
+ var doc = jsdom("Error during import, possibly malformed HTML
");
+ }
+
apiLogger.debug('html:');
apiLogger.debug(html);