diff --git a/noisy.py b/noisy.py
index c1830ee9..a2d3a62f 100644
--- a/noisy.py
+++ b/noisy.py
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ def _browse_from_links(self, depth=0):
                 self._remove_and_blacklist(random_link)
         except (requests.exceptions.RequestException, UnicodeDecodeError):
             logging.debug(
-                "Exception on URL: %s, removing from list and trying again!" % random_link
+                "Exception on URL: %s, removing from list and trying again!".format(random_link)
             )
             self._remove_and_blacklist(random_link)
         self._browse_from_links(depth + 1)
@@ -225,11 +225,11 @@ def crawl(self):
                 logging.debug("found {} links", len(self._links))
                 self._browse_from_links()
             except (requests.exceptions.RequestException, UnicodeDecodeError):
-                logging.warning("Error connecting to root url: {}", url)
+                logging.warning("Error connecting to root url: {}".format(url))
             except MemoryError:
-                logging.warning("Error: content at url: {} is exhausting the memory", url)
+                logging.warning("Error: content at url: {} is exhausting the memory".format(url))
             except LocationParseError:
-                logging.warning("Error encountered during parsing of: {}", url)
+                logging.warning("Error encountered during parsing of: {}".format(url))
             except self.CrawlerTimedOut:
                 logging.info("Timeout has exceeded, exiting")
                 return