diff --git a/aider/scrape.py b/aider/scrape.py
index 1aba38a5b..d2b45a183 100755
--- a/aider/scrape.py
+++ b/aider/scrape.py
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ class Scraper:
         soup = slimdown_html(soup)
         page_source = str(soup)
 
-        if self.pandoc_available:
+        if not self.pandoc_available:
             return page_source
 
         md = pypandoc.convert_text(page_source, "markdown", format="html")