diff --git a/website/search.py b/website/search.py
index 812948b..6d7319a 100755
--- a/website/search.py
+++ b/website/search.py
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ pathSearchMessageParts = sys.argv[2].split(' ')
 pathSearch = pathSearchMessageParts[1]
 message = ' '.join(pathSearchMessageParts[2:])
 
+pathSearchRegex = re.compile(pathSearch)
+messageRegex = re.compile(message)
+
 isPathSearchAChannelId = re.match(r'[a-zA-Z0-9-_]{24}', pathSearch)
 
 searchOnlyCaptions = pathSearchMessageParts[0] == 'search-only-captions'
@@ -52,14 +55,14 @@ for fileIndex, file in enumerate(files):
         if searchOnlyCaptions and not endsWithVtt:
             continue
         toWrite = f'{file}/{fileInZip}'
-        if not bool(re.search(pathSearch, toWrite)):
+        if not bool(pathSearchRegex.search(toWrite)):
             continue
         with zip.open(fileInZip) as f:
             if endsWithVtt:
                 content = f.read().decode('utf-8')
                 stringIOf = StringIO(content)
                 wholeCaption = ' '.join([cleanCaption(caption.text) for caption in webvtt.read_buffer(stringIOf)])
-                messagePositions = [m.start() for m in re.finditer(message, wholeCaption)]
+                messagePositions = [m.start() for m in messageRegex.finditer(wholeCaption)]
                 if messagePositions != []:
                     timestamps = []
                     for messagePosition in messagePositions: