diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index b82b5dc97..9d1e36f39 100644
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 		// Only do this for public postings to avoid privacy problems, since poco data is public.
 		// Don't set this value if it isn't from the owner (could be an author that we don't know)
 		if (!$arr['private'] AND (($arr["author-link"] === $arr["owner-link"]) OR ($arr["parent-uri"] === $arr["uri"])))
-			$r = q("UPDATE `contact` SET `success_update` = '%s' WHERE `id` = %d",
+			q("UPDATE `contact` SET `success_update` = '%s' WHERE `id` = %d",
 				dbesc($arr['received']),
 				intval($arr['contact-id'])
 			);
diff --git a/mod/parse_url.php b/mod/parse_url.php
index 9df35c761..9f7b31be3 100644
--- a/mod/parse_url.php
+++ b/mod/parse_url.php
@@ -93,6 +93,15 @@ function parseurl_getsiteinfo($url, $no_guessing = false, $do_oembed = true, $co
 		return($siteinfo);
 	}
 
+	if ($do_oembed) {
+		require_once("include/oembed.php");
+
+		$oembed_data = oembed_fetch_url($url);
+
+		if ($oembed_data->type != "error")
+			$siteinfo["type"] = $oembed_data->type;
+	}
+
 	// if the file is too large then exit
 	if ($curl_info["download_content_length"] > 1000000)
 		return($siteinfo);
@@ -115,15 +124,6 @@ function parseurl_getsiteinfo($url, $no_guessing = false, $do_oembed = true, $co
         $http_code = $curl_info['http_code'];
 	curl_close($ch);
 
-	if ($do_oembed) {
-		require_once("include/oembed.php");
-
-		$oembed_data = oembed_fetch_url($url);
-
-		if ($oembed_data->type != "error")
-			$siteinfo["type"] = $oembed_data->type;
-	}
-
 	// Fetch the first mentioned charset. Can be in body or header
 	$charset = "";
 	if (preg_match('/charset=(.*?)['."'".'"\s\n]/', $header, $matches))