diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2c5d1a7..d895cdb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /.idea
-.DS_Store
+**/.DS_Store
 /venv/
 /ven/
 **/__pycache__/
-*.pyc
\ No newline at end of file
+*.pyc
diff --git a/api/core/jobs/__init__.py b/api/core/jobs/__init__.py
index 77c522e..476922b 100644
--- a/api/core/jobs/__init__.py
+++ b/api/core/jobs/__init__.py
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ class JobType(Enum):
 
 class Location(BaseModel):
     country: str
-    city: str
-    state: str
+    city: str = None
+    state: str = None
     postal_code: str = None
     address: str = None
 
diff --git a/api/core/scrapers/linkedin/__init__.py b/api/core/scrapers/linkedin/__init__.py
index 6ebde13..c840272 100644
--- a/api/core/scrapers/linkedin/__init__.py
+++ b/api/core/scrapers/linkedin/__init__.py
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ class LinkedInScraper(Scraper):
 
     @staticmethod
     def get_location(metadata_card):
+        location = Location(
+            country="US",
+        )
         if metadata_card is not None:
             location_tag = metadata_card.find(
                 "span", class_="job-search-card__location"
diff --git a/api/v1/jobs/__init__.py b/api/v1/jobs/__init__.py
index 44aa6c7..bea30c9 100644
--- a/api/v1/jobs/__init__.py
+++ b/api/v1/jobs/__init__.py
@@ -9,9 +9,7 @@ router = APIRouter(prefix="/jobs")
 
 
 @router.get("/")
-async def scrape_jobs(
-    site_type: str, search_term: str, location: str, page: int = None
-):
+async def scrape_jobs(site_type: str, search_term: str, location: str, page: int = 1):
     job_response = {"message": "site type not found"}
 
     scraper_dict = {