diff --git a/pyquarantine/run.py b/pyquarantine/run.py
index 39e25ee..c364298 100644
--- a/pyquarantine/run.py
+++ b/pyquarantine/run.py
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ def main():
 
     # increase the recursion limit so that BeautifulSoup can
     # parse larger html content
-    sys.setrecursionlimit(2000)
+    sys.setrecursionlimit(4000)
 
     rc = 0
     try: