diff --git a/app/tasks/phpbbparser.py b/app/tasks/phpbbparser.py
index 0b0ac6d9..8da594a5 100644
--- a/app/tasks/phpbbparser.py
+++ b/app/tasks/phpbbparser.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def __extract_signature(soup):
 	if len(res) != 1:
 		return None
 	else:
-		return res[0]
+		return str(res[0])
 
 
 def getProfileURL(url, username):