diff --git a/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/mod.rs b/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/mod.rs
index 207e408..6798045 100644
--- a/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/mod.rs
+++ b/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/mod.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ mod tests;
 
 use self::config::{ConfigCollection, ConfigEntry};
 use self::error::FullTextParserError;
-use self::readability::Readability;
+pub use self::readability::Readability;
 use crate::article::Article;
 use crate::constants;
 use crate::util::Util;
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ impl FullTextParser {
         Ok(())
     }
 
-    async fn download(
+    pub async fn download(
         url: &url::Url,
         client: &Client,
         headers: HeaderMap,
diff --git a/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/readability/mod.rs b/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/readability/mod.rs
index fedf563..2de2d85 100644
--- a/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/readability/mod.rs
+++ b/article_scraper/src/full_text_parser/readability/mod.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use crate::{constants, util::Util};
 pub struct Readability;
 
 impl Readability {
-    async fn extract_from_str(
+    pub async fn extract_from_str(
         html: &str,
         base_url: Option<url::Url>,
     ) -> Result<String, FullTextParserError> {
diff --git a/article_scraper/src/lib.rs b/article_scraper/src/lib.rs
index 76244d9..b051199 100644
--- a/article_scraper/src/lib.rs
+++ b/article_scraper/src/lib.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ mod util;
 
 use article::Article;
 use error::ScraperError;
-use full_text_parser::FullTextParser;
+pub use full_text_parser::FullTextParser;
+pub use full_text_parser::Readability;
 use images::ImageDownloader;
 use reqwest::Client;
 use std::path::Path;
diff --git a/article_scraper_cli/Cargo.toml b/article_scraper_cli/Cargo.toml
index 24f8435..cccc64b 100644
--- a/article_scraper_cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/article_scraper_cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,4 +12,6 @@ article_scraper = { path  = "../article_scraper/" }
 clap =  { version = "4.2", features = [ "derive" ] }
 simplelog = "0.12"
 log = "0.4"
-url = "2.3"
\ No newline at end of file
+url = "2.3"
+reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["json", "native-tls", "gzip", "brotli"] }
+tokio = { version = "1.27", features = ["macros", "fs", "io-util", "rt-multi-thread" ] }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/article_scraper_cli/src/main.rs b/article_scraper_cli/src/main.rs
index ccec235..ceda501 100644
--- a/article_scraper_cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/article_scraper_cli/src/main.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 use std::{path::PathBuf, process::exit};
 
 use crate::args::{Args, Commands};
+use article_scraper::FullTextParser;
+use article_scraper::Readability;
 use clap::Parser;
+use reqwest::header::HeaderMap;
+use reqwest::Client;
 use simplelog::{ColorChoice, Config, LevelFilter, TermLogger, TerminalMode};
 use url::Url;
 
 mod args;
 
-pub fn main() {
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() {
     let args = Args::parse();
 
     let level = if args.debug {
@@ -28,22 +33,70 @@ pub fn main() {
             html,
             base_url,
             source_url,
-        } => extract_readability(html, source_url, base_url),
+        } => extract_readability(html, source_url, base_url, args.output).await,
     }
 
     log::info!("hello world");
 }
 
-fn extract_readability(
+async fn extract_readability(
     html_file: Option<PathBuf>,
     source_url: Option<String>,
     base_url: Option<String>,
+    output: Option<PathBuf>,
 ) {
     if html_file.is_none() && source_url.is_none() {
-        log::error!("");
+        log::error!("either need a source html file or source url");
+        exit(0);
+    }
+
+    if html_file.is_some() && source_url.is_some() {
+        log::error!("load source from html file or url? only specify one of the two options");
         exit(0);
     }
 
     let source_url = source_url.map(|url| Url::parse(&url).expect("invalid source url"));
     let base_url = base_url.map(|url| Url::parse(&url).expect("invalid base url"));
+
+    let html = if let Some(source_url) = source_url {
+        match FullTextParser::download(&source_url, &Client::new(), HeaderMap::new()).await {
+            Ok(html) => html,
+            Err(err) => {
+                log::error!("Failed to download html from url: {err}");
+                exit(0);
+            }
+        }
+    } else if let Some(source_file) = html_file {
+        match std::fs::read_to_string(&source_file) {
+            Ok(html) => html,
+            Err(err) => {
+                log::error!("Failed to read file {source_file:?}: {err}");
+                exit(0);
+            }
+        }
+    } else {
+        unreachable!()
+    };
+
+    let result = match Readability::extract_from_str(&html, base_url).await {
+        Ok(res) => res,
+        Err(err) => {
+            log::error!("Failed to extract content with readability: {err}");
+            exit(0);
+        }
+    };
+
+    let output = if let Some(output) = output {
+        output
+    } else {
+        PathBuf::from("result.html")
+    };
+
+    match std::fs::write(&output, result) {
+        Ok(()) => log::info!("successfully written result to {output:?}"),
+        Err(err) => {
+            log::error!("Failed to write to file {output:?}: {err}");
+            exit(0);
+        }
+    }
 }