diff --git a/edx_dl/parsing.py b/edx_dl/parsing.py
index a1a564dd..5e50d354 100644
--- a/edx_dl/parsing.py
+++ b/edx_dl/parsing.py
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 from .common import Course, Section, SubSection, Unit, Video
 
 
-# Force use of bs4 with html5lib
-BeautifulSoup = lambda page: BeautifulSoup_(page, 'html5lib')
+# Force use of bs4 with html.parser
+BeautifulSoup = lambda page: BeautifulSoup_(page, 'html.parser')
 
 
 def edx_json2srt(o):