diff --git a/crawler/ui_exporter.py b/crawler/ui_exporter.py
index 46d1d5b..d18944e 100644
--- a/crawler/ui_exporter.py
+++ b/crawler/ui_exporter.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ async def export_immoweb(
 ):
     data_dir = ctx.obj["data_dir"]
     output_file_path = pathlib.Path(output_file)
+    output_file_path.touch(exist_ok=True)
     listing_paths = sorted(list(pathlib.Path(data_dir).glob("*/listing.json")))
     # listing_paths = listing_paths[:10]
     listings = Listing.get_all_listings([str(path) for path in listing_paths])