diff --git a/Contents/Code/webapp.py b/Contents/Code/webapp.py
index 878eb5a0..2d6a8ba0 100644
--- a/Contents/Code/webapp.py
+++ b/Contents/Code/webapp.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 from flask import Flask, Response, render_template, send_from_directory
 from flask_babel import Babel
 import polib
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import quote_plus
 from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
 
 # local imports
@@ -316,7 +317,11 @@ def cache_data():
                             Log.Error('Error getting collection data from LizardByte db: {}'.format(e))
                             database_id = None
 
-                item_issue_url = issue_url.format(issue_title, database_id) if database_id else None
+                if database_id:
+                    # url encode the issue title
+                    issue_title = quote_plus(issue_title)
+
+                    item_issue_url = issue_url.format(issue_title, database_id)
 
             if database_type and themerr_db_helper.item_exists(
                     database_type=database_type,
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6466ea08..944fbe1a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ plexapi-backport[alert]==4.15.6  # custom python-plexapi supporting python 2.7
 polib==1.2.0;python_version<"3"
 requests==2.27.1;python_version<"3"  # 2.27 is last version supporting Python 2.7
 schedule==0.6.0;python_version<"3"
+six==1.16.0;python_version<"3"
 typing==3.10.0.0
 werkzeug==1.0.1;python_version<"3"