diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/issuu.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/issuu.py
index f6170c28..54c6539f 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/issuu.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/issuu.py
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ class IssuuPublicationExtractor(IssuuBase, GalleryExtractor):
     example = "https://issuu.com/issuu/docs/TITLE/"
 
     def metadata(self, page):
+        pos = page.rindex('id="initial-data"')
         data = util.json_loads(text.rextract(
-            page, '<script data-json="', '"')[0].replace("&quot;", '"'))
+            page, '<script data-json="', '"', pos)[0].replace("&quot;", '"'))
 
         doc = data["initialDocumentData"]["document"]
         doc["date"] = text.parse_datetime(