diff --git a/src/articles/views.py b/src/articles/views.py
index 46a2487..8ce0067 100644
--- a/src/articles/views.py
+++ b/src/articles/views.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from .articles_scrape import get_articles
 from .models import Article
 
+testVariable = None
 
 class Articles(View):
     def get(self, requests, *args, **kwargs):