diff --git a/bookmarksHelper.php b/bookmarksHelper.php
index 44d4235b..ac512fbc 100644
--- a/bookmarksHelper.php
+++ b/bookmarksHelper.php
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ function getURLMetadata($url) {
 	} 
 	$metadata['url'] = $url;
 
+	if (!function_exists('curl_init')){
+		return $metadata;
+	}
 	$ch = curl_init();
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
@@ -66,4 +69,4 @@ function getURLMetadata($url) {
 	$metadata['title'] = htmlspecialchars_decode(@$match[1]); 
 
 	return $metadata;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}