diff --git a/sherlock/resources/data.json b/sherlock/resources/data.json
index 25aab490..d7d5dab0 100644
--- a/sherlock/resources/data.json
+++ b/sherlock/resources/data.json
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 {
-  "$schema": "data.schema.json",
   "1337x": {
     "errorMsg": [
       "<title>Error something went wrong.</title>",
diff --git a/sherlock/sites.py b/sherlock/sites.py
index 009a05c1..ba6c930a 100644
--- a/sherlock/sites.py
+++ b/sherlock/sites.py
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ class SitesInformation:
                 raise ValueError(
                     f"Problem parsing json contents at '{data_file_path}':  Missing attribute {error}."
                 )
+            except TypeError as error:
+                print(f"Encountered TypeError parsing json contents for target '{site_name}' at {data_file_path}\nSkipping target.\n")
 
         return