ValueError: URL contains control codes "... /big<br />\n/2013/ ..."

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Scraping some site I ended up with this error when wpull tried to --convert-links after downloading:

INFO Converting links in file ‘scrubbed’ (type=html).
ERROR Fatal exception.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/application/app.py", line 152, in run
    yield from pipeline.process()
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/pipeline/pipeline.py", line 194, in process
    yield from self._process_one_worker()
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/pipeline/pipeline.py", line 215, in _process_one_worker
    task.result()
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/pipeline/pipeline.py", line 119, in process
    item = yield from self.process_one(_worker_id=worker_id)
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/pipeline/pipeline.py", line 103, in process_one
    yield from task.process(item)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/coroutines.py", line 210, in coro
    res = func(*args, **kw)
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/application/tasks/conversion.py", line 69, in process
    converter.convert_by_record(session.url_record)
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/converter.py", line 97, in convert_by_record
    filename, temp_filename, base_url=url_record.url)
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/converter.py", line 161, in convert
    self._convert_element(element, is_xhtml=is_xhtml)
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/converter.py", line 181, in _convert_element
    new_value = self._convert_plain(link_info)
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/converter.py", line 230, in _convert_plain
    url_info = URLInfo.parse(url, encoding=self._encoding)
  File "/home/scrubbed/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/wpull/url.py", line 128, in parse
    raise ValueError('URL contains control codes: {}'.format(ascii(url)))
ValueError: URL contains control codes: 'http://i53.fastpic.ru/big<br />\n/2013/scrubbed/scrubbed/scrubbed.jpg'
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INFO Exiting with status 1.

This is most likely a malformed URL from a messageboard.

$ python --version
Python 3.6.2
$ ~/.local/bin/wpull3 --version
2.0.1