diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 504afef..b53b2c2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 node_modules/
 package-lock.json
+source_output.txt
diff --git a/follow-src/source_output.txt b/follow-src/source_output.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 612a888..354a7bc 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ fi
 
 echo "install: installing requests python package for the source script"
 pip3 install --user requests
+cd follow-src
+touch source_output.txt
+cd ..
 
 echo
 echo "install: installing tmi node module for the twitch bot"