diff --git a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/newWeb.js b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/newWeb.js
index 6007816f61..330d79e492 100644
--- a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/newWeb.js
+++ b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/newWeb.js
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ async function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		if (items) {
 			await Promise.all(
 				Object.keys(items)
-					.map(url => requestDocument(url).then(doc => scrape(doc, url)))
+					.map(url => requestDocument(url).then(scrape))
 			);
 		}
 	}
@@ -65,3 +65,8 @@ async function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		await scrape(doc, url);
 	}
 }
+
+function scrape(doc, url = doc.location.href) {
+	// TODO: implement or add a scrape function template
+}
+
diff --git a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeBibTeX.js b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeBibTeX.js
index 3d99ddfa72..42f8d7eecf 100644
--- a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeBibTeX.js
+++ b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeBibTeX.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-async function scrape(doc, url) {
+async function scrape(doc, url = doc.location.href) {
 	// TODO adjust the url building
 	let m = url.match(/FId=([\w\d]+)&/);
 	if (m) {
diff --git a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeEM.js b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeEM.js
index 44dedb1082..b2b827ee6c 100644
--- a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeEM.js
+++ b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeEM.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-async function scrape(doc, url) {
+async function scrape(doc, url = doc.location.href) {
 	let translator = Zotero.loadTranslator('web');
 	// Embedded Metadata
 	translator.setTranslator('951c027d-74ac-47d4-a107-9c3069ab7b48');
diff --git a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeMARC.js b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeMARC.js
index edcc6407dd..fa6dda282c 100644
--- a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeMARC.js
+++ b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeMARC.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-async function scrape(doc, url) {
+async function scrape(doc, url = doc.location.href) {
 	// TODO adjust the selector for the lines here
 	let lines = doc.querySelectorAll('table#marcData tr');
 
diff --git a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeRIS.js b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeRIS.js
index cb480af1bc..d0ed037aa7 100644
--- a/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeRIS.js
+++ b/chrome/content/scaffold/templates/scrapeRIS.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-async function scrape(doc, url) {
+async function scrape(doc, url = doc.location.href) {
 	let DOI = url.match(/\/(10\.[^#?]+)/)[1];
 	// TODO adjust the URL here
 	let risURL = `http://citation-needed.services.springer.com/v2/references/${DOI}?format=refman&flavour=citation`;