diff --git a/src/boilerpipe/extract/__init__.py b/src/boilerpipe/extract/__init__.py
index 0f8a2a5..fb225f0 100644
--- a/src/boilerpipe/extract/__init__.py
+++ b/src/boilerpipe/extract/__init__.py
@@ -41,6 +41,16 @@ def __init__(self, extractor='DefaultExtractor', **kwargs):
             encoding    = connection.headers['content-type'].lower().split('charset=')[-1]
             if encoding.lower() == 'text/html':
                 encoding = chardet.detect(self.data)['encoding']
+            try:
+                import gzip
+                import StringIO
+                data = StringIO.StringIO(self.data)
+                gzipper = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=data)
+                self.data = gzipper.read()
+                #self.data = gzip.decompress(self.data)
+            except Exception as inst:
+                #print inst
+                pass
             try:
                 self.data = unicode(self.data, encoding)
             except NameError: