diff --git a/couchpotato/core/plugins/base.py b/couchpotato/core/plugins/base.py
index ce7c1b4..c90c48c 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/plugins/base.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/plugins/base.py
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ class Plugin(object):
 
     # http request
     def urlopen(self, url, timeout = 30, params = None, headers = None, opener = None, multipart = False, show_error = True):
-        url = ss(url)
+        url = urllib2.quote(ss(url), safe = "%/:=&?~#+!$,;'@()*[]")
 
         if not headers: headers = {}
         if not params: params = {}