diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/bitchute.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/bitchute.py
index 446a1ab19f..43b4732aa0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/bitchute.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/bitchute.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
                 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.57 Safari/537.36',
             })
 
-        title = self._search_regex(
+        title = self._html_search_regex(
             (r'<[^>]+\bid=["\']video-title[^>]+>([^<]+)', r'<title>([^<]+)'),
             webpage, 'title', default=None) or self._html_search_meta(
             'description', webpage, 'title',