diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9a37f9f..db884ee 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
     "fix-path": "^2.1.0",
     "fluent-ffmpeg": "2.1.2",
     "js-video-url-parser": "^0.2.8",
+    "miniget": "^4.2.3",
     "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
     "mobx": "^5.8.0",
     "mobx-react": "^5.4.3",
diff --git a/src/services/playlist-scraper.ts b/src/services/playlist-scraper.ts
index adb0d5a..12dda53 100644
--- a/src/services/playlist-scraper.ts
+++ b/src/services/playlist-scraper.ts
@@ -1,48 +1,65 @@
 import * as cheerio from 'cheerio';
+import * as miniget from 'miniget';
+
+const fetchWithMiniget = async (url: string) => {
+  return miniget(url, {
+    headers: {
+      'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36',
+    },
+  }).text();
+}
 
 const getPlaylistPageContent = async (playlistURL: string) => {
-  const playlistId = new URL(playlistURL).searchParams.get('list');
-  const response = await fetch(`https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=${playlistId}`);
-  if (!response.ok) {
-    switch (response.status) {
+  try {
+    const playlistId = new URL(playlistURL).searchParams.get('list');
+    const response = await fetchWithMiniget(`https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=${playlistId}`);
+    return response;
+  } catch (error /*: Miniget.MinigetError */) {
+    console.log('failed to fetch playlist page', error);
+    switch (error.statusCode) {
       case 403:
         throw new Error('Playlist is private or not accessible to the app');
       case 400:
-      case 404:
         throw new Error('Invalid playlist URL');
+      case 404:
+        throw new Error('Playlist not found');
       default:
         throw new Error('Failed to fetch playlist page');
     }
   }
-  return response.text();
 }
 
 export const scrap = async (playlistURL: string) => {
   const data = await getPlaylistPageContent(playlistURL);
 
-  const $ = cheerio.load(data);
-  const ytInitialData = $('script').filter((_index, tag) => {
-    const html = cheerio.html(tag);
-    return html.includes('ytInitialData');
-  })[0];
+  try {
+    const $ = cheerio.load(data);
+    const ytInitialData = $('script').filter((_index, tag) => {
+      const html = cheerio.html(tag);
+      return html.includes('ytInitialData');
+    })[0];
 
-  const [jsonStr] = /{.*}/gm.exec(cheerio.html(ytInitialData));
-  const info = JSON.parse(jsonStr);
-  const {
-    contents,
-  } = info.contents.twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer.tabs[0].tabRenderer.content.sectionListRenderer.contents[0].itemSectionRenderer.contents[0].playlistVideoListRenderer;
-  const songs = contents
-    .filter(({ playlistVideoRenderer }) => playlistVideoRenderer)
-    .map(({ playlistVideoRenderer }) => ({
-      id: playlistVideoRenderer.videoId,
-      name: playlistVideoRenderer.title.runs[0].text,
-    }));
+    const [jsonStr] = /{.*}/gm.exec(cheerio.html(ytInitialData));
+    const info = JSON.parse(jsonStr);
+    const {
+      contents,
+    } = info.contents.twoColumnBrowseResultsRenderer.tabs[0].tabRenderer.content.sectionListRenderer.contents[0].itemSectionRenderer.contents[0].playlistVideoListRenderer;
+    const songs = contents
+      .filter(({ playlistVideoRenderer }) => playlistVideoRenderer)
+      .map(({ playlistVideoRenderer }) => ({
+        id: playlistVideoRenderer.videoId,
+        name: playlistVideoRenderer.title.runs[0].text,
+      }));
 
-  const hasMore = contents.length > songs.length
+    const hasMore = contents.length > songs.length
 
-  return {
-    name: info.metadata.playlistMetadataRenderer.title,
-    playlist: songs,
-    hasMore,
-  };
+    return {
+      name: info.metadata.playlistMetadataRenderer.title,
+      playlist: songs,
+      hasMore,
+    };
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error(err);
+    throw new Error('The playlist may be private, or the URL is invalid');
+  }
 };
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 184d22c..bf81b9e 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -5398,6 +5398,11 @@ miniget@^4.2.2:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/miniget/-/miniget-4.2.2.tgz#db20320f265efdc4c1826a0be431d56753074475"
   integrity sha512-a7voNL1N5lDMxvTMExOkg+Fq89jM2vY8pAi9ZEWzZtfNmdfP6RXkvUtFnCAXoCv2T9k1v/fUJVaAEuepGcvLYA==
 
+miniget@^4.2.3:
+  version "4.2.3"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/miniget/-/miniget-4.2.3.tgz#3707a24c7c11c25d359473291638ab28aab349bd"
+  integrity sha512-SjbDPDICJ1zT+ZvQwK0hUcRY4wxlhhNpHL9nJOB2MEAXRGagTljsO8MEDzQMTFf0Q8g4QNi8P9lEm/g7e+qgzA==
+
 minimatch@3.0.4:
   version "3.0.4"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/minimatch/-/minimatch-3.0.4.tgz#5166e286457f03306064be5497e8dbb0c3d32083"