diff --git a/changedetectionio/content_fetcher.py b/changedetectionio/content_fetcher.py
index ce83ebe0..d82775b9 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/content_fetcher.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/content_fetcher.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ class Fetcher():
     error = None
     status_code = None
     content = None # Should always be bytes.
+    headers = None
 
     fetcher_description ="No description"
 
@@ -113,6 +114,7 @@ class html_webdriver(Fetcher):
         # @todo - dom wait loaded?
         time.sleep(5)
         self.content = driver.page_source
+        self.headers = {}
 
         driver.quit()
 
@@ -156,4 +158,5 @@ class html_requests(Fetcher):
 
         self.status_code = r.status_code
         self.content = html
+        self.headers = r.headers
 
diff --git a/changedetectionio/fetch_site_status.py b/changedetectionio/fetch_site_status.py
index 82108306..98c0be1d 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/fetch_site_status.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/fetch_site_status.py
@@ -103,9 +103,16 @@ class perform_site_check():
             # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41817578/basic-method-chaining ?
             # return content().textfilter().jsonextract().checksumcompare() ?
 
-            is_html = True
+            is_json = fetcher.headers.get('Content-Type', '') == 'application/json'
+            is_html = not is_json
             css_filter_rule = watch['css_filter']
-            if css_filter_rule and len(css_filter_rule.strip()):
+
+            has_filter_rule = css_filter_rule and len(css_filter_rule.strip())
+            if is_json and not has_filter_rule:
+                css_filter_rule = "json:$"
+                has_filter_rule = True
+
+            if has_filter_rule:
                 if 'json:' in css_filter_rule:
                     stripped_text_from_html = html_tools.extract_json_as_string(content=fetcher.content, jsonpath_filter=css_filter_rule)
                     is_html = False
@@ -116,7 +123,7 @@ class perform_site_check():
             if is_html:
                 # CSS Filter, extract the HTML that matches and feed that into the existing inscriptis::get_text
                 html_content = fetcher.content
-                if css_filter_rule and len(css_filter_rule.strip()):
+                if has_filter_rule:
                     html_content = html_tools.css_filter(css_filter=css_filter_rule, html_content=fetcher.content)
 
                 # get_text() via inscriptis
diff --git a/changedetectionio/tests/test_jsonpath_selector.py b/changedetectionio/tests/test_jsonpath_selector.py
index 39529642..5a4b7959 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/tests/test_jsonpath_selector.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/tests/test_jsonpath_selector.py
@@ -111,6 +111,21 @@ def set_original_response():
         f.write(test_return_data)
     return None
 
+
+def set_response_with_html():
+    test_return_data = """
+    {
+      "test": [
+        {
+          "html": "<b>"
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+    """
+    with open("test-datastore/endpoint-content.txt", "w") as f:
+        f.write(test_return_data)
+    return None
+
 def set_modified_response():
     test_return_data = """
     {
@@ -138,6 +153,37 @@ def set_modified_response():
 
     return None
 
+def test_check_json_without_filter(client, live_server):
+    # Request a JSON document from a application/json source containing HTML
+    # and be sure it doesn't get chewed up by instriptis
+    set_response_with_html()
+
+    # Give the endpoint time to spin up
+    time.sleep(1)
+
+    # Add our URL to the import page
+    test_url = url_for('test_endpoint_json', _external=True)
+    client.post(
+        url_for("import_page"),
+        data={"urls": test_url},
+        follow_redirects=True
+    )
+
+    # Trigger a check
+    client.get(url_for("api_watch_checknow"), follow_redirects=True)
+
+    # Give the thread time to pick it up
+    time.sleep(3)
+
+    res = client.get(
+        url_for("preview_page", uuid="first"),
+        follow_redirects=True
+    )
+
+    assert b'&#34;&lt;b&gt;' in res.data
+    assert res.data.count(b'{\n') >= 2
+
+
 def test_check_json_filter(client, live_server):
     json_filter = 'json:boss.name'
 
diff --git a/changedetectionio/tests/util.py b/changedetectionio/tests/util.py
index 80eb9820..2e30be25 100644
--- a/changedetectionio/tests/util.py
+++ b/changedetectionio/tests/util.py
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ def live_server_setup(live_server):
         with open("test-datastore/endpoint-content.txt", "r") as f:
             return f.read()
 
+    @live_server.app.route('/test-endpoint-json')
+    def test_endpoint_json():
+
+        from flask import make_response
+
+        with open("test-datastore/endpoint-content.txt", "r") as f:
+            resp = make_response(f.read())
+            resp.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
+            return resp
+
     # Just return the headers in the request
     @live_server.app.route('/test-headers')
     def test_headers():