diff --git a/classes/cve_info.rb b/classes/cve_info.rb
index e35f7b4..e1d49ec 100644
--- a/classes/cve_info.rb
+++ b/classes/cve_info.rb
@@ -1,16 +1,48 @@
 class CveReport
+  attr_accessor :filename, :file
+    # 1st way:
+    # expects a hash with the following key:values # {:filename => "nvdcve-1.0-2002.json.gz",
+    # :json => {"CVE_data_type"=>"CVE",
+    #           "CVE_Items"= etc...etc...etc...}
+    # 2nd way: 
+    # a json gz compressed file of cve metadata downloaded from nvd
+    # TO ADD: 1st way. 
 
-    def cves
-        # return a list of cve data from the given filename in an array.
-        self.from_file(filename)
+    def initialize(filename) 
+      @filename = filename 
+      @file = from_file
     end
 
-    def from_file(filename)
-        # lookup info from the given json.gz filename of cve information.
+    def cve_ids
+        # return a list of cve data from the given filename in an array.
+        file["CVE_Items"].map do |item|
+          item["cve"]["CVE_data_meta"]["ID"]
+        end
+    end
+
+    def cve_id?(cve_id)
+      cve_ids.include?(cve_id)
+    end
+
+    def cve(cve_id)
+      find(cve_id)
+    end
+
+    def cves
+      file["CVE_Items"].map do |cve|
+        cve
+      end
+    end
+
+    def from_file
+        Zlib::GzipReader.open(filename) do |gz|
+            JSON.parse(gz.read)
+        end
     end
 
     def find(cve_id)
-        # this should look in the returned array of cve information from self.cves
-        # and return the given information for the cve_id
+      cves.select do |cve|
+        cve["cve"]["CVE_data_meta"]["ID"] == cve_id
+      end
     end
-end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/classes/nvd_downloader.rb b/classes/nvd_downloader.rb
index 7b2923c..b7d6e3b 100644
--- a/classes/nvd_downloader.rb
+++ b/classes/nvd_downloader.rb
@@ -53,17 +53,23 @@ module NvdTools
       JSON.parse(json_string)
     end
     
-    def one_time_import
+    def one_time_import(to_file=false)
       # experimenting with how i want to do this. 
       # right now its a loop through the filenames
       # and parse all into a json string and store in an array
       self.filenames_json.map do |filename|
         r = client.get(filename)
-        sleep(1)
+        json_string = read_gzip_stream(r.body)
+        parsed_json = parse_json(json_string)
 
-        gzip_stream = r.body
-        json_string = read_gzip_stream(gzip_stream)
-        parse_json(json_string)
+        { :filename => filename,
+          :json => parsed_json
+        }
+        
+        if to_file 
+        filepath = "../data/cve/#{filename}"
+          write_to_file(r.body, filepath)
+        end
       end
       # this should be a method that does a one-time import
       # of all of the json.gz from each year + recent + modified json feeds