diff --git a/uqcsbot/yelling.py b/uqcsbot/yelling.py
index abbe005..cdce9ea 100644
--- a/uqcsbot/yelling.py
+++ b/uqcsbot/yelling.py
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ def clean_text(self, message: str) -> str:
         )
 
         # slightly more permissive version of discord's url regex, matches absolutely anything between http(s):// and whitespace
-        for url in re.findall(r"https?:\/\/[^\s]+", text, flags=re.UNICODE):
+        for url in re.findall(r"https?:\/\/\S+", text, flags=re.UNICODE):
             try:
                 resp = urlopen(url)
             except (ValueError, URLError):