diff --git a/app/jobs/onceoff/grant_onebox.rb b/app/jobs/onceoff/grant_onebox.rb
index 8479528054c..131d29a167c 100644
--- a/app/jobs/onceoff/grant_onebox.rb
+++ b/app/jobs/onceoff/grant_onebox.rb
@@ -14,11 +14,15 @@ module Jobs
           .find_in_batches do |group|
 
         group.each do |p|
-          # Note we can't use `p.cooked` here because oneboxes have been cooked out
-          cooked = PrettyText.cook(p.raw)
-          doc = Nokogiri::HTML::fragment(cooked)
-          if doc.search('a.onebox').size > 0
-            to_award[p.user_id] ||= { post_id: p.id, created_at: p.created_at }
+          begin
+            # Note we can't use `p.cooked` here because oneboxes have been cooked out
+            cooked = PrettyText.cook(p.raw)
+            doc = Nokogiri::HTML::fragment(cooked)
+            if doc.search('a.onebox').size > 0
+              to_award[p.user_id] ||= { post_id: p.id, created_at: p.created_at }
+            end
+          rescue
+            nil # if there is a problem cooking we don't care
           end
         end