--- a/documents/scrape.py
+++ b/documents/scrape.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 def getLastAttachment(docsdb, url):
     hash = mkhash(url)
     doc = docsdb.get(hash)
-    if doc != None:
+    if doc != None and "_attachments" in doc.keys():
         last_attachment_fname = doc["_attachments"].keys()[-1]
         last_attachment = docsdb.get_attachment(doc, last_attachment_fname)
         return last_attachment
@@ -112,10 +112,15 @@
     else:
         if (('page_scraped' in doc) and ((time.time() - doc['page_scraped']) < 60 * 24 * 14) or (scrape_again == False)):
             print "Uh oh, trying to scrape URL again too soon!" + hash
-            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.read())
+	    if "_attachments" in doc.keys():
+	            last_attachment_fname = doc["_attachments"].keys()[-1]
+	            last_attachment = docsdb.get_attachment(doc, last_attachment_fname)
+        	    content = last_attachment.read()
+		    mime_type = doc['mime_type']
+	    else:
+		    content = None
+		    mime_type = None
+            return (doc['url'], mime_type, content)
 
     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