diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e699a05..e9eb29b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.7)
 project (mastorss
-         VERSION 0.5.6
+         VERSION 0.5.7
          LANGUAGES CXX
 )
 
diff --git a/src/parse.cpp b/src/parse.cpp
index 3ba60fe..b4b3a41 100644
--- a/src/parse.cpp
+++ b/src/parse.cpp
@@ -155,8 +155,9 @@ std::vector<string> parse_website(const string &xml)
                 str = std::regex_replace(str, recdata1, "");
                 str = std::regex_replace(str, recdata2, "");
                 str = std::regex_replace(str, restrip, "");
-                str = std::regex_replace(str, std::regex("[\\r\\n] +[\\r\\n]"), "\n\n"); // remove space between newlines
-                str = std::regex_replace(str, std::regex("[\\r\\n]{3,}"), "\n");        // remove excess newlines
+                str = std::regex_replace(str, std::regex("[\\r\\n] +[\\r\\n]"), "\n\n");    // remove space between newlines
+                str = std::regex_replace(str, std::regex("[\\r\\n]{3,}"), "\n");            // remove excess newlines
+                str = std::regex_replace(str, std::regex("^[ \t]*$"), "");                  // remove nothing
 
                 for (const string &hashtag : watchwords)
                 {