diff --git a/brozzler/js-templates/extract-outlinks.js b/brozzler/js-templates/extract-outlinks.js
index e9e8a47..e3a04ca 100644
--- a/brozzler/js-templates/extract-outlinks.js
+++ b/brozzler/js-templates/extract-outlinks.js
@@ -3,16 +3,22 @@
 var __brzl_framesDone = new Set();
 var __brzl_compileOutlinks = function(frame) {
     __brzl_framesDone.add(frame);
-    if (frame && frame.document) {
-        var outlinks = Array.prototype.slice.call(
+    var outlinks = [];
+    try {
+        if (frame && frame.document) {
+            outlinks = Array.prototype.slice.call(
                 frame.document.querySelectorAll('a[href], area[href]'));
-        for (var i = 0; i < frame.frames.length; i++) {
-            if (frame.frames[i] && !__brzl_framesDone.has(frame.frames[i])) {
-                outlinks = outlinks.concat(
-                            __brzl_compileOutlinks(frame.frames[i]));
+            for (var i = 0; i < frame.frames.length; i++) {
+                if (frame.frames[i] && !__brzl_framesDone.has(frame.frames[i])) {
+                    outlinks = outlinks.concat(
+                        __brzl_compileOutlinks(frame.frames[i]));
+                }
             }
         }
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log("exception looking at frame" + frame + ": " + e);
     }
+
     return outlinks;
 }
 __brzl_compileOutlinks(window).join('\n');
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d0f8cff..948bb4f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.5.dev311',
+        version='1.5.dev312',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',