diff --git a/mod/parse_url.php b/mod/parse_url.php
index 7f4bd29a08..71d767675f 100644
--- a/mod/parse_url.php
+++ b/mod/parse_url.php
@@ -97,15 +97,6 @@ function parseurl_getsiteinfo($url, $no_guessing = false, $do_oembed = true, $co
 		return($siteinfo);
 	}
 
-	if ($do_oembed) {
-		require_once("include/oembed.php");
-
-		$oembed_data = oembed_fetch_url($url);
-
-		if ($oembed_data->type != "error")
-			$siteinfo["type"] = $oembed_data->type;
-	}
-
 	// if the file is too large then exit
 	if ($curl_info["download_content_length"] > 1000000)
 		return($siteinfo);
@@ -114,6 +105,24 @@ function parseurl_getsiteinfo($url, $no_guessing = false, $do_oembed = true, $co
 	if (($curl_info["content_type"] != "") AND !strstr(strtolower($curl_info["content_type"]),"html"))
 		return($siteinfo);
 
+	if ($do_oembed) {
+		require_once("include/oembed.php");
+
+		$oembed_data = oembed_fetch_url($url);
+
+		if ($oembed_data->type != "error")
+			$siteinfo["type"] = $oembed_data->type;
+
+		if (($oembed_data->type == "link") AND ($siteinfo["type"] != "photo")) {
+			if (isset($oembed_data->title))
+				$siteinfo["title"] = $oembed_data->title;
+			if (isset($oembed_data->description))
+				$siteinfo["text"] = trim($oembed_data->description);
+			if (isset($oembed_data->thumbnail_url))
+				$siteinfo["image"] = $oembed_data->thumbnail_url;
+		}
+	}
+
 	$stamp1 = microtime(true);
 
 	// Now fetch the body as well
@@ -283,15 +292,6 @@ function parseurl_getsiteinfo($url, $no_guessing = false, $do_oembed = true, $co
 			}
 	}
 
-	if (isset($oembed_data) AND ($oembed_data->type == "link") AND ($siteinfo["type"] != "photo")) {
-		if (isset($oembed_data->title) AND (trim($oembed_data->title) != ""))
-			$siteinfo["title"] = $oembed_data->title;
-		if (isset($oembed_data->description) AND (trim($oembed_data->description) != ""))
-			$siteinfo["text"] = trim($oembed_data->description);
-		if (isset($oembed_data->thumbnail_url) AND (trim($oembed_data->thumbnail_url) != ""))
-			$siteinfo["image"] = $oembed_data->thumbnail_url;
-	}
-
 	if ((@$siteinfo["image"] == "") AND !$no_guessing) {
 	    $list = $xpath->query("//img[@src]");
 	    foreach ($list as $node) {