diff --git a/src/api/utils.nim b/src/api/utils.nim
index f4484f3..0dcee25 100644
--- a/src/api/utils.nim
+++ b/src/api/utils.nim
@@ -47,9 +47,8 @@ proc fetchJson*(url: Uri; headers: HttpHeaders): Future[JsonNode] {.async.} =
   headers["accept"] = jsonAccept
   newClient()
 
-  var resp = ""
   try:
-    resp = await client.getContent($url)
+    let resp = await client.getContent($url)
     result = parseJson(resp)
   except:
     return nil
diff --git a/src/routes/media.nim b/src/routes/media.nim
index 00d8dfb..779ca3d 100644
--- a/src/routes/media.nim
+++ b/src/routes/media.nim
@@ -46,16 +46,8 @@ proc createMediaRouter*(cfg: Config) =
       let url = decodeUrl(@"url")
       cond isTwitterUrl(url) == true
 
-      let client = newAsyncHttpClient()
-      var content: string
-      try:
-        content = await client.getContent(url)
-        client.close
-      except:
-        discard
-
-      if content.len == 0:
-        resp Http404
+      let content = await safeFetch(url)
+      if content.len == 0: resp Http404
 
       let filename = parseUri(url).path.split(".")[^1]
       resp content, settings.mimes.getMimetype(filename)
@@ -68,18 +60,17 @@ proc createMediaRouter*(cfg: Config) =
       if getHmac(url) != @"sig":
         resp showError("Failed to verify signature", cfg)
 
-      let client = newAsyncHttpClient()
-      var content = await client.getContent(url)
+      var content = await safeFetch(url)
+      if content.len == 0: resp Http404
 
       if ".vmap" in url:
         var m: RegexMatch
         discard content.find(re"""url="(.+.m3u8)"""", m)
         url = decodeUrl(content[m.group(0)[0]])
-        content = await client.getContent(url)
+        content = await safeFetch(url)
 
       if ".m3u8" in url:
         content = proxifyVideo(content, prefs.proxyVideos)
 
-      client.close()
       let ext = parseUri(url).path.split(".")[^1]
       resp content, settings.mimes.getMimetype(ext)
diff --git a/src/routes/router_utils.nim b/src/routes/router_utils.nim
index 0aa46b4..cea1f4f 100644
--- a/src/routes/router_utils.nim
+++ b/src/routes/router_utils.nim
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import strutils, sequtils
+import strutils, sequtils, asyncdispatch, httpclient
 import ../utils, ../prefs
 export utils, prefs
 
@@ -13,3 +13,9 @@ template refPath*(): untyped {.dirty.} =
 
 proc getNames*(name: string): seq[string] =
   name.strip(chars={'/'}).split(",").filterIt(it.len > 0)
+
+proc safeFetch*(url: string): Future[string] {.async.} =
+  let client = newAsyncHttpClient()
+  try: result = await client.getContent(url)
+  except: discard
+  client.close()