diff --git a/rdflib_jsonld/util.py b/rdflib_jsonld/util.py
index b2bcea1..2eb06c6 100644
--- a/rdflib_jsonld/util.py
+++ b/rdflib_jsonld/util.py
@@ -4,21 +4,48 @@
     assert json  # workaround for pyflakes issue #13
 except ImportError:
     import simplejson as json
-
-from ._compat import IS_PY3 as PY3
+from html.parser import HTMLParser
 
 from os import sep
 from os.path import normpath
+from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlsplit, urlunsplit
+from rdflib.parser import create_input_source
+from io import StringIO
 
-if PY3:
-    from urllib.parse import urljoin, urlsplit, urlunsplit
-else:
-    from urlparse import urljoin, urlsplit, urlunsplit
 
-from rdflib.parser import create_input_source
+class HTMLJSONParser(HTMLParser):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.json = []
+        self.contains_json = False
+
+    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
+        self.contains_json = False
+
+        # Only set self. contains_json to True if the
+        # type is 'application/ld+json'
+        if tag == "script":
+            for (attr, value) in attrs:
+                if attr == 'type' and value == 'application/ld+json':
+                    self.contains_json = True
+                else:
+                    # Nothing to do
+                    continue
 
-if PY3:
-    from io import StringIO
+    def handle_data(self, data):
+        # Only do something when we know the context is a
+        # script element containing application/ld+json
+
+        if self.contains_json is True:
+            if data.strip() == "":
+                # skip empty data elements
+                return
+
+            # Try to parse the json
+            self.json.append(json.loads(data))
+
+    def get_json(self):
+        return self.json
 
 
 def source_to_json(source):
@@ -27,10 +54,17 @@ def source_to_json(source):
 
     stream = source.getByteStream()
     try:
-        if PY3:
-            return json.load(StringIO(stream.read().decode("utf-8")))
-        else:
-            return json.load(stream)
+        return json.load(StringIO(stream.read().decode('utf-8')))
+    except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
+        # The document is not a JSON document, let's see whether we can parse
+        # it as HTML
+
+        # Reset stream pointer to 0
+        stream.seek(0)
+        parser = HTMLJSONParser()
+        parser.feed(stream.read().decode('utf-8'))
+
+        return parser.get_json()
     finally:
         stream.close()