Custom method to handle exceptions not working as expected

[Yoriz]

This won't work because in the line

title = get_element(title_selector[0].text, 'Untitled') # Returns first element in title_selector if there is one; if IndexError returns 'Untitled'

that is where the IndexError will be raised before it gets to the function as it is trying to index the list

You could check if the list is empty

if not title_selector:
    title = 'Untitled'
else:
    title = whatever_you_want_to_do_instead