diff --git a/newspaper/settings.py b/newspaper/settings.py
index 5add9eeb..55ae5b28 100644
--- a/newspaper/settings.py
+++ b/newspaper/settings.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
 DATA_DIRECTORY = '.newspaper_scraper'
 
-TOP_DIRECTORY = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), DATA_DIRECTORY)
+TOP_DIRECTORY = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("/tmp"), DATA_DIRECTORY)
 if not os.path.exists(TOP_DIRECTORY):
     os.mkdir(TOP_DIRECTORY)