diff --git a/internal/pkg/crawl/capture.go b/internal/pkg/crawl/capture.go
index 576931c0..0e7308c8 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/crawl/capture.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/crawl/capture.go
@@ -470,7 +470,8 @@ func (c *Crawl) Capture(item *queue.Item) error {
 			URLsFromXML, isSitemap, err := extractor.XML(resp, false)
 			if err != nil {
 				c.Log.WithFields(c.genLogFields(err, item.URL, nil)).Error("unable to extract URLs from XML")
-			} else {
+			}
+			if len(URLsFromXML) > 0 {
 				if isSitemap {
 					outlinks = append(outlinks, URLsFromXML...)
 				} else {
diff --git a/internal/pkg/crawl/extractor/xml.go b/internal/pkg/crawl/extractor/xml.go
index 1f2ba2a3..2e8e60df 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/crawl/extractor/xml.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/crawl/extractor/xml.go
@@ -36,8 +36,10 @@ func XML(resp *http.Response, strict bool) (URLs []*url.URL, sitemap bool, err e
 			// normal EOF
 			break
 		}
+
 		if err != nil {
-			return nil, sitemap, err
+			// return URLs we got so far when error occurs
+			return URLs, sitemap, err
 		}
 
 		switch tok := tok.(type) {