diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d8938c7..0a9a317 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,3 +8,11 @@ pdftotext:
 
 extract:
 	@perl extract_urls.pl data/text/*.txt > $$(date +"output/links-%FT%T.txt")
+
+init:
+ifneq (,$(wildcard ./data/text))
+	@mkdir -p data/text
+endif
+ifneq (,$(wildcard ./ouput))
+	@mkdir output
+endif