diff --git a/scripts/umap-extractor.py b/scripts/umap-extractor.py
index 19b8ae8..8fbef1a 100755
--- a/scripts/umap-extractor.py
+++ b/scripts/umap-extractor.py
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ def normalize_name(name) :
     return name.replace("/", "_").replace("-","").replace(" ","").replace(".","")
 
 datadir = os.path.join(outdir,"data")
+if not os.path.exists(outdir) :
+    os.mkdir(outdir)
 if not os.path.exists(datadir) :
     os.mkdir(datadir)