@@ -202,7 +202,10 @@ def request(query, params):
202202 params['headers']['Accept-Language'] = language
203203 params['headers']['Accept'] = 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
204204 if google_hostname == default_hostname:
205− params['cookies']['PREF'] = get_google_pref_cookie()
205+ try:
206+ params['cookies']['PREF'] = get_google_pref_cookie()
207+ except:
208+ logger.warning('cannot fetch PREF cookie')
206209 params['cookies']['NID'] = get_google_nid_cookie(google_hostname)
207210
208211 params['google_hostname'] = google_hostname