diff --git a/src/webtranspose/scrape.py b/src/webtranspose/scrape.py
index c8c2d4b..86479ba 100644
--- a/src/webtranspose/scrape.py
+++ b/src/webtranspose/scrape.py
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.scraper_id = scraper_id
         if self.scraper is None:
             self.scraper = OpenAIScraper()
-        self.scraper_id = None
-        if self.api_key is None:
+        if self.scraper_id is None:
             self.scraper_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
         self.created = _created