diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## HEAD
 
+## 0.2.1
+
+- Made Scraper an instance of MonadPlus.
+
 ## 0.2.0.1
 
 - Fixed examples in documentation and added an examples folder for ready to
diff --git a/scalpel.cabal b/scalpel.cabal
--- a/scalpel.cabal
+++ b/scalpel.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                scalpel
-version:             0.2.0.1
+version:             0.2.1
 synopsis:            A high level web scraping library for Haskell.
 description:
     Scalpel is a web scraping library inspired by libraries like Parsec and
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 source-repository this
   type:     git
   location: https://github.com/fimad/scalpel.git
-  tag:      v0.2.0.1
+  tag:      v0.2.1
 
 library
   other-extensions:
diff --git a/src/Text/HTML/Scalpel/Internal/Scrape.hs b/src/Text/HTML/Scalpel/Internal/Scrape.hs
--- a/src/Text/HTML/Scalpel/Internal/Scrape.hs
+++ b/src/Text/HTML/Scalpel/Internal/Scrape.hs
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@
                                                       in  b tags
                             | otherwise             = Nothing
 
+instance MonadPlus (Scraper str) where
+    mzero = empty
+    mplus = (<|>)
+
 -- | The 'chroot' function takes a selector and an inner scraper and executes
 -- the inner scraper as if it were scraping a document that consists solely of
 -- the tags corresponding to the selector.