diff --git a/defaults/config.js b/defaults/config.js
index 9f8a5493..dbd18ed7 100644
--- a/defaults/config.js
+++ b/defaults/config.js
@@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ module.exports = {
 	// This value is set to `2048` kilobytes by default.
 	prefetchMaxImageSize: 2048,
 
+	// ### prefetchMaxSearchSize
+	//
+	// This value controls the maximum request size made to find the link preview
+	// Open Graph tags. For some sites like YouTube this can easily exceed 300 kilobytes.
+	//
+	// This value is set to 50 kilobytes by default.
+	prefetchMaxSearchSize: 50,
+
 	// ### `fileUpload`
 	//
 	// Allow uploading files to the server hosting The Lounge.
diff --git a/src/plugins/irc-events/link.js b/src/plugins/irc-events/link.js
index 4a73c620..e268d9ef 100644
--- a/src/plugins/irc-events/link.js
+++ b/src/plugins/irc-events/link.js
@@ -407,9 +407,14 @@ function fetch(uri, headers) {
 						// We don't need to download the file any further after we received content-type header
 						gotStream.destroy();
 					} else {
-						// if not image, limit download to 50kb, since we need only meta tags
-						// twitter.com sends opengraph meta tags within ~20kb of data for individual tweets
-						limit = 1024 * 50;
+						// if not image, limit download to the max search size, since we need only meta tags
+						// twitter.com sends opengraph meta tags within ~20kb of data for individual tweets, the default is set to 50.
+						// for sites like Youtube the og tags are in the first 300K and hence this is configurable by the admin
+						limit =
+							"prefetchMaxSearchSize" in Helper.config
+								? Helper.config.prefetchMaxSearchSize * 1024
+								: // set to the previous size if config option is unset
+								  50 * 1024;
 					}
 				})
 				.on("error", (e) => reject(e))