diff --git a/archiver/archive.py b/archiver/archive.py
index fa48b497..5da9325f 100755
--- a/archiver/archive.py
+++ b/archiver/archive.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ from config import (
     OUTPUT_DIR,
     ANSI,
     TIMEOUT,
+    GIT_SHA,
 )
 from util import (
     download_url,
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ from util import (
     pretty_path,
 )
 
+__AUTHOR__ = 'Nick Sweeting <git@nicksweeting.com>'
+__VERSION__ = GIT_SHA
 __DESCRIPTION__ = 'Bookmark Archiver: Create a browsable html archive of a list of links.'
 __DOCUMENTATION__ = 'https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver'
 
diff --git a/archiver/config.py b/archiver/config.py
index 0a49e2b3..56b6b393 100644
--- a/archiver/config.py
+++ b/archiver/config.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ if not USE_COLOR:
 try:
     GIT_SHA = run(["git", "rev-list", "-1", "HEAD", "./"], stdout=PIPE, cwd=REPO_DIR).stdout.strip().decode()
 except Exception:
-    GIT_SHA = None
+    GIT_SHA = 'unknown'
     print('[!] Warning, you need git installed for some archiving features to save correct version numbers!')
 
 if sys.stdout.encoding.upper() != 'UTF-8':