diff --git a/youtube-extract b/youtube-extract
index 7e20075..899dd8c 100755
--- a/youtube-extract
+++ b/youtube-extract
@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ noisePattern = '|'.join([
   ])
 
 channelPattern = '|'.join([
-	r'''/www\.youtube\.com/c/[^/?&=."'>\s]+''',
+	r'''/www\.youtube\.com/c/[^/?&=."'>\\\s]+''',
 	r'/www\.youtube\.com/user/[A-Za-z0-9]{1,20}',
 	r'/www\.youtube\.com/channel/UC[0-9A-Za-z_-]{22}',
-	r'''/www\.youtube\.com/[^/?&=."'>\s]+(?=/?(\s|["'>]|$))''',
+	r'''/www\.youtube\.com/[^/?&=."'>\\\s]+(?=/?(\s|\\?["'>]|$))''',
   ])
 
 # Make sure that the last 11 chars of the match are always the video ID (because Python's re doesn't support \K).