diff --git a/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_fanfictionnet.py b/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_fanfictionnet.py
index b6a713d..42e2b88 100644
--- a/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_fanfictionnet.py
+++ b/fanficdownloader/adapters/adapter_fanfictionnet.py
@@ -205,15 +205,20 @@ class FanFictionNetSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
                         ## more if hit too fast.  This is in
                         ## additional to what ever the
                         ## slow_down_sleep_time setting is.
-        soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(self._fetchUrl(url))
+        data = self._fetchUrl(url)
+        soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(data)
 
         ## Remove the 'share' button.
         sharediv = soup.find('div', {'class' : 'a2a_kit a2a_default_style'})
-        sharediv.extract()
+        if sharediv:
+            sharediv.extract()
+        else:
+            logging.debug('share button div not found')
         
         div = soup.find('div', {'id' : 'storytext'})
         
         if None == div:
+            logging.debug('div id=storytext not found.  data:%s'%data)
             raise exceptions.FailedToDownload("Error downloading Chapter: %s!  Missing required element!" % url)
 
         return utf8FromSoup(div)