diff --git a/src/nplinker/genomics/antismash/antismash_downloader.py b/src/nplinker/genomics/antismash/antismash_downloader.py
index 2ef1b018..a2192f93 100644
--- a/src/nplinker/genomics/antismash/antismash_downloader.py
+++ b/src/nplinker/genomics/antismash/antismash_downloader.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 from os import PathLike
 from pathlib import Path
 import shutil
-from urllib.error import HTTPError
 from nplinker.logconfig import LogConfig
 from nplinker.utils import download_and_extract_archive
 from nplinker.utils import list_dirs
@@ -74,12 +73,10 @@ def download_and_extract_antismash_data(antismash_id: str,
         logger.info('antiSMASH BGC data of %s is downloaded and extracted.',
                     antismash_id)
 
-    except HTTPError as e:
+    except Exception as e:
         shutil.rmtree(extract_path)
         logger.warning(e)
-        raise HTTPError(e.url, e.code,
-                        f"Could not find a valid url for {antismash_id}",
-                        e.headers, e.fp) from e
+        raise e
 
 
 def _check_roots(download_root: PathLike, extract_root: PathLike):
diff --git a/tests/genomics/antismash/test_antismash_downloader.py b/tests/genomics/antismash/test_antismash_downloader.py
index d73aa1a7..0a548980 100644
--- a/tests/genomics/antismash/test_antismash_downloader.py
+++ b/tests/genomics/antismash/test_antismash_downloader.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def test_nonexisting_id(self, tmp_path):
         extract_root = tmp_path / "extracted"
         extract_root.mkdir()
         for test_id in nonexisting_ids:
-            with pytest.raises(HTTPError):
+            with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
                 download_and_extract_antismash_data(test_id, download_root,
                                                     extract_root)
             extracted_folder = extract_root / "antismash" / test_id