diff --git a/api/backend/scraping.py b/api/backend/scraping.py
index c0c1dce..551e2ae 100644
--- a/api/backend/scraping.py
+++ b/api/backend/scraping.py
@@ -163,7 +163,10 @@ async def collect_scraped_elements(page: tuple[str, str], xpaths: list[Element])
         el = sxpath(root, elem.xpath)
 
         for e in el:
-            text = "\t".join(str(t) for t in e.itertext())
+            if isinstance(e, etree._Element):
+                text = "\t".join(str(t) for t in e.itertext())
+            else:
+                text = str(e)
             captured_element = CapturedElement(
                 xpath=elem.xpath, text=text, name=elem.name
             )