diff --git a/espial/config.py b/espial/config.py
index 75b1074..1c79022 100644
--- a/espial/config.py
+++ b/espial/config.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ def __init__(self):
         self.port = 5002  # port to run Espial on
         self.host = "127.0.0.1"
         self.IGNORE = []  # sub-directories to ignore when crawling
+        self.ALLOWED_ORIGINS = []  # websites allowed to fetch data from Espial
 
     def get_item_id(self, item):
         """
diff --git a/espial/load.py b/espial/load.py
index 11ada98..2015c87 100644
--- a/espial/load.py
+++ b/espial/load.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ def load_mesh(config):
                     doc._.id in items
                     and doc._.hash == items[doc._.id]["hash"]
                     and not excluded_path
+                    and Path(doc._.path).exists()
                 ):
                     docs.append(doc)
                 else: