diff --git a/newspaper/extractors.py b/newspaper/extractors.py
index d1caada0..7b4b74b3 100644
--- a/newspaper/extractors.py
+++ b/newspaper/extractors.py
@@ -254,12 +254,19 @@ def get_title(self, doc):
         """
         title = ''
         title_element = self.parser.getElementsByTag(doc, tag='title')
-        # no title found
-        if title_element is None or len(title_element) == 0:
-            return title
+        title_text_fb = (
+            self.get_meta_content(doc, 'meta[property="og:title"]') or
+            self.get_meta_content(doc, 'meta[name="og:title"]') or ''
+        )
 
-        # title elem found
-        title_text = self.parser.getText(title_element[0])
+        # no title found, fallback to og:title
+        if title_element is None or len(title_element) == 0:
+            title_text = title_text_fb
+            if not title_text:
+                return title
+        else:
+            # title elem found
+            title_text = self.parser.getText(title_element[0])
         used_delimeter = False
 
         # title from h1
@@ -281,11 +288,6 @@ def get_title(self, doc):
             # clean double spaces
             title_text_h1 = ' '.join([x for x in title_text_h1.split() if x])
 
-        # title from og:title
-        title_text_fb = (
-        self.get_meta_content(doc, 'meta[property="og:title"]') or
-        self.get_meta_content(doc, 'meta[name="og:title"]') or '')
-
         # create filtered versions of title_text, title_text_h1, title_text_fb
         # for finer comparison
         filter_regex = re.compile(r'[^\u4e00-\u9fa5a-zA-Z0-9\ ]')
diff --git a/tests/unit_tests.py b/tests/unit_tests.py
index 1e867d33..56583171 100644
--- a/tests/unit_tests.py
+++ b/tests/unit_tests.py
@@ -375,6 +375,10 @@ def test_get_title_quotes(self):
         html = '<title>{}</title>'.format(title)
         self.assertEqual(self._get_title(html), title)
 
+    def test_get_title_fallback_to_og_title_when_title_missing(self):
+        html = '<meta property="og:title" content="Fallback title from og">'
+        self.assertEqual(self._get_title(html), 'Fallback title from og')
+
     def _get_canonical_link(self, article_url, html):
         doc = self.parser.fromstring(html)
         return self.extractor.get_canonical_link(article_url, doc)