diff --git a/api.php b/api.php
index b77d89a6..e9bdf0f7 100644
--- a/api.php
+++ b/api.php
@@ -48,5 +48,5 @@
     }
 
 
-    echo htmlspecialchars(json_encode($data));
+    echo json_encode(htmlspecialchars($data));
 ?>