diff --git a/src/scraper/ddg.php b/src/scraper/ddg.php
index 2e8435c..72cb72c 100644
--- a/src/scraper/ddg.php
+++ b/src/scraper/ddg.php
@@ -1959,23 +1959,15 @@ class ddg{
 
 		if($id === null){
 
-			// fallback to getting ID from path
-			$id = explode("/", $image["path"]);
+			$id = explode("/th/id/", $image["path"], 2);
 
-			for($i=count($id) - 1; $i>0; $i--){
+			if(count($id) !== 2){
 
-				if(trim($id[$i]) != ""){
-
-					$id = $id[$i];
-					break;
-				}
+				// malformed
+				return $url;
 			}
-		}
 
-		if(is_array($id)){
-
-			// fuck off, let proxy.php deal with it
-			return $url;
+			$id = $id[1];
 		}
 
 		return "https://" . $image["host"] . "/th/id/" . $id;
diff --git a/src/scraper/qwant.php b/src/scraper/qwant.php
index c14e482..0283c47 100644
--- a/src/scraper/qwant.php
+++ b/src/scraper/qwant.php
@@ -971,17 +971,15 @@ class qwant{
 
 		if($id === null){
 
-			// fallback to getting ID from path
-			$id = explode("/", $image["path"]);
+			$id = explode("/th/id/", $image["path"], 2);
 
-			for($i=count($id) - 1; $i>0; $i--){
+			if(count($id) !== 2){
 
-				if(trim($id[$i]) != ""){
-
-					$id = $id[$i];
-					break;
-				}
+				// malformed
+				return $url;
 			}
+
+			$id = $id[1];
 		}
 
 		if(is_array($id)){