diff --git a/rpopfetch.py b/rpopfetch.py
index b7c4ef6..d5bee45 100644
--- a/rpopfetch.py
+++ b/rpopfetch.py
@@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ def convert_monthly_content_to_json(content, year, month):
             
             # remove the "th", "st", "nd", "rd" from the day
             parts[0] = parts[0].replace('th', '').replace('st', '').replace('nd', '').replace('rd', '')
+
+            # make the links an empty list if it's null
+            if parts[5] == None:
+                parts[5] = []
             
             # create a json entry from the parsed data
             json_entry = {