diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# reading_time_estimator
+Python script for estimating an article's reading time
+ this works with python3 
diff --git a/reading_time_estimator.py b/reading_time_estimator.py
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--- a/reading_time_estimator.py
+++ b/reading_time_estimator.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import bs4
 import urllib, re
+import sys
 
 # Words per minute
 WPM = 200
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@
 
 # 1
 def extract_text(url):
-	html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
+	html = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
 	soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
 	texts = soup.findAll(text=True)
 	return texts
@@ -38,4 +39,5 @@ def estimate_reading_time(url):
 	total_words = count_words_in_text(filtered_text, WORD_LENGTH)
 	return total_words/WPM
 
-print estimate_reading_time("http://www.assafelovic.com/blog/2017/6/27/estimating-an-articles-reading-time")
+
+print( estimate_reading_time(sys.argv[1]))