diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/peertube.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/peertube.py
index 252295f97..728b0acc4 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/peertube.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/peertube.py
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ class PeerTubeIE(InfoExtractor):
             'https://%s/api/v1/videos/%s' % (host, video_id), video_id)
 
         video_description = self._download_json(
-            'https://%s/api/v1/videos/%s/description' % (host, video_id), video_id)
+            'https://%s/api/v1/videos/%s/description' % (host, video_id), video_id, fatal=False)
 
         video_captions = self._download_json(
             'https://%s/api/v1/videos/%s/captions' % (host, video_id), video_id)