Issue:
version: 0.4.9
os: parrot
description: whatweb --log-json write an open square brackets " [ " in json output file if the input file ( -i ) does not contains targets.

Use case:
Running a custom script you may need to pass an output file containing a list of websites to whatweb.

Workaround
For sure this issue should be handled by developers who uses whatweb.

Example:

root@parrot:/tmp# cat websites.txt  # empty file
root@parrot:/tmp# whatweb --log-json=testwhatweb.json -i websites.txt 
No targets selected
root@parrot:/tmp# cat testwhatweb.json 
[
root@parrot:/tmp#