diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c709f350..b4e27e9d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 *~
 *.pyc
+*.html
 .*.swp
diff --git a/stagingapi.py b/stagingapi.py
index 1caeb979..e8da653a 100644
--- a/stagingapi.py
+++ b/stagingapi.py
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ class StagingApi(object):
         # * removed linked packages
         try:
             data = yaml.load(description.text)
+            data['requests']
         except:
             data = yaml.load('requests: []')
         return data
diff --git a/tests/api_tests.py b/tests/api_tests.py
index c19a9d3d..457a4927 100644
--- a/tests/api_tests.py
+++ b/tests/api_tests.py
@@ -125,18 +125,23 @@ class TestApiCalls(unittest.TestCase):
         rq = { 'id': '123', 'package': 'test-package' }
 
         # Initiate the pretty overrides
-        self._register_pretty_url_get('http://localhost/source/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test/_meta',
+        self._register_pretty_url_get('http://localhost/source/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test1/_meta',
                                       'staging-project-meta.xml')
+        self._register_pretty_url_get('http://localhost/source/openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test2/_meta',
+                                      'staging-project-broken-meta.xml')
 
         # Initiate the api with mocked rings
         with mock_generate_ring_packages():
             api = oscs.StagingApi('http://localhost')
 
         # Ensure the output is equal to what we expect
-        data = api.get_prj_pseudometa('openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test')
+        data = api.get_prj_pseudometa('openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test1')
         for i in rq.keys():
             self.assertEqual(rq[i],data['requests'][0][i])
 
+        data = api.get_prj_pseudometa('openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test2')
+        self.assertEqual(len(data['requests']),0)
+
     @httpretty.activate
     def test_list_projects(self):
         """
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/staging-project-broken-meta.xml b/tests/fixtures/staging-project-broken-meta.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4e6f7510
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/staging-project-broken-meta.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<project name="openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test">
+  <title>Staging project "openSUSE:Factory:Staging:test"</title>
+  <description>
+</description>
+  <link project="openSUSE:Factory"/>
+  <person userid="Admin" role="maintainer"/>
+  <build>
+    <enable/>
+  </build>
+  <publish>
+    <disable/>
+  </publish>
+  <debuginfo>
+    <enable/>
+  </debuginfo>
+  <repository name="standard" rebuild="direct" linkedbuild="all">
+    <path project="openSUSE:Factory:Build" repository="standard"/>
+    <arch>i586</arch>
+    <arch>x86_64</arch>
+  </repository>
+  <repository name="images" rebuild="direct" linkedbuild="all">
+    <path project="openSUSE:Factory" repository="standard"/>
+    <arch>x86_64</arch>
+    <arch>i586</arch>
+  </repository>
+</project>