diff --git a/workers/app/task/worker.py b/workers/app/task/worker.py
index 1431f7a7..e65ac03c 100644
--- a/workers/app/task/worker.py
+++ b/workers/app/task/worker.py
@@ -782,4 +782,8 @@ def run(self):
         self.check_scraper_artifacts_upload()
 
         # done with processing, cleaning-up and exiting
-        self.shutdown("succeeded" if self.scraper_succeeded else "failed")
+        self.shutdown(
+            "succeeded"
+            if (self.scraper_succeeded and len(self.zim_files) > 0)
+            else "failed"
+        )