--- a/documents/scrape.py
+++ b/documents/scrape.py
@@ -104,10 +104,10 @@
             last_attachment_fname = doc["_attachments"].keys()[-1]
             last_attachment = docsdb.get_attachment(doc,last_attachment_fname)
             content = last_attachment
-            return (doc['url'],doc['mime_type'],content)
+            return (doc['url'],doc['mime_type'],content.read())
         if scrape_again == False:
             print "Not scraping this URL again as requested"
-            return (None,None,None)
+            return (doc['url'],doc['mime_type'],content.read())
 
     req.add_header("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Prometheus webspider; owner maxious@lambdacomplex.org)")
     #if there is a previous version stored in couchdb, load caching helper tags
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
                 last_attachment_fname = doc["_attachments"].keys()[-1]
                 last_attachment = docsdb.get_attachment(doc,last_attachment_fname)
                 content = last_attachment
-                return (doc['url'],doc['mime_type'],content)
+                return (doc['url'],doc['mime_type'],content.read())
             else:
                 print "new webpage loaded"
                 content = url_handle.read()