diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorJS.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorJS.java
index 815a280d..0757deb6 100644
--- a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorJS.java
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorJS.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public class ExtractorJS extends ContentExtractor {
     // (areas between paired ' or " characters, possibly backslash-quoted
     // on the ends, but not in the middle)
     protected static final String JAVASCRIPT_STRING_EXTRACTOR =
-            "(\\\\{0,8}+['\"\\\\u{0027}\\\\u{0022}])([^\\s'\"]{1,"+UURI.MAX_URL_LENGTH+"})(?:\\1)";
+    		"(\\\\{0,8}+['\"])([^\\s'\"]{1,"+UURI.MAX_URL_LENGTH+"})(?:\\1)";
     
     // GROUPS:
     // (G1) ' or " with optional leading backslashes
@@ -142,13 +142,16 @@ public class ExtractorJS extends ContentExtractor {
     public long considerStrings(Extractor ext, 
             CrawlURI curi, CharSequence cs, boolean handlingJSFile) {
         long foundLinks = 0;
+        
+        String unescapedJavaScript = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJavaScript(cs.toString());
+        
         Matcher strings =
-            TextUtils.getMatcher(JAVASCRIPT_STRING_EXTRACTOR, cs);
+            TextUtils.getMatcher(JAVASCRIPT_STRING_EXTRACTOR, unescapedJavaScript);
         
         int startIndex = 0;
         while (strings.find(startIndex)) {
             CharSequence subsequence =
-                cs.subSequence(strings.start(2), strings.end(2));
+            		unescapedJavaScript.subSequence(strings.start(2), strings.end(2));
             
             if (UriUtils.isPossibleUri(subsequence)) {
                 if (considerString(ext, curi, handlingJSFile, subsequence.toString())) {
diff --git a/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorJSTest.java b/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorJSTest.java
index cc095078..72900776 100644
--- a/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorJSTest.java
+++ b/modules/src/test/java/org/archive/modules/extractor/ExtractorJSTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.List;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils;
 import org.archive.modules.CrawlURI;
 import org.archive.net.UURI;
 import org.archive.net.UURIFactory;
@@ -113,6 +114,12 @@ public class ExtractorJSTest extends StringExtractorTestBase {
         
         "var blah='/good/query/value/with/url-escaping.html?foo=bar%20bar';",
         "http://www.archive.org/good/query/value/with/url-escaping.html?foo=bar%20bar",
+        
+        "\\u0027project_detail.aspx?guid=unicodesinglequote\\u0027",
+        "http://www.archive.org/foo/project_detail.aspx?guid=unicodesinglequote",
+        
+        "\\u0022project_detail.aspx?guid=unicodedoublequote\\u0022",
+        "http://www.archive.org/foo/project_detail.aspx?guid=unicodedoublequote",        
     };
        
     @Override
@@ -122,6 +129,7 @@ public class ExtractorJSTest extends StringExtractorTestBase {
     
     @Override
     protected Extractor makeExtractor() {
+    	
         ExtractorJS result = new ExtractorJS();
         UriErrorLoggerModule ulm = new UnitTestUriLoggerModule();  
         result.setLoggerModule(ulm);