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 # Pastebinner
 Check out the examples folder for some examples. I will add more soon.
 
-## Usage
-### Configuration
+## Configuration
 
-### Docker 
-- build the image: 
+#### Docker 
+- Build the image: 
 ```shell 
 docker build -t pastebinner .
 ```
-- run the image:
+- Run the image:
 ```shell
 docker run -it --env-file .env --network="host" pastebinner
 ```
+#### Console
 
-Set the following environment variables and source them:
+The console will launch you into a running pry session where you will have access to an elasticsearch object and a pastebinner object. From there you can poke around and investigate further how the program works.
+
+I am working on setting it up with docker-compose to connect elasticsearch and redis in docker containers. 
+Set the following environment variables in a file named .env and source them:
 
 ```
 pastebin_api_key
@@ -22,8 +25,17 @@ pastebin_username
 pastebin_password
 ```
 
+optional environment variables if planning on using elasticsearch and redis
+```
+elasticsearch_url
+redis_url
+```
+
+
 If you want to scrape pastes, you can view a json response of the latest pastes by using the ```-s``` or ```--scrape_public``` options.
-Creating pastes is built in, check ```lib/api_client.rb```, I am still working on adding in the functionality to use it on the command line.
+Creating pastes is built in, check ```lib/api_client```
+
+#### Commandline
 The command line app can be used as follows:
 
 ```shell
@@ -62,4 +74,4 @@ The data directory will then be populated with pastebin raw paste files with the
 - fulltext search of raw pastes via elastic search, mysql, postgres, sqlite, or some other method
 - adding exceptions
 - adding configuration file support
-- adding rspec tests
+- adding rspec tests
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