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 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
+
+
+# Added by cargo
+
+/target
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 # ferrisfind
 
-Find publicly available files given a company name, download them, and extract the metadata out of them.
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+Find publicly available files given a company name, download them, and extract the metadata out of them.
+
+# Usage:
+
+```
+ferrisfind [OPTIONS] --name <NAME> --key <KEY>
+-n, --name <NAME>
+        company name
+
+-k, --key <KEY>
+        serpapi key
+
+-p, --pages <PAGES>
+        number of pages of results to get (note each page is a credit on your sperapi key, defaults to 10)
+
+-t, --threads <THREADS>
+        the number of threads to use, will default to the rayon default
+
+-d, --download-path <DOWNLOAD_PATH>
+        folder to download found files into defaults to ./found_files
+
+-c, --csv <CSV>
+        save metadata as csv
+
+-m, --markdown <MARKDOWN>
+        save metadata as csv
+
+-h, --help
+        Print help (see a summary with '-h')
+
+-V, --version
+        Print version
+```
+
+# Examples:
+Find PDFs for google and print metadata to console without saving it to a file:
+
+`ferrisfind -k {serpapi key} -n google`
+
+find PDFs for google and save to a csv file:
+
+`ferrisfind -k {serpapi key} -n google -c ./metadata.csv`
+
+find PDFs for google and save to a markdwon file:
+
+`ferrisfind -k {serpapi key} -n google -m ./metadata.md`
+
+find PDFs for google and save to both a CSV and Markdown file:
+
+`ferrisfind -k {serpapi key} -n google -c ./metadata.csv -m ./metadata.md`