diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d105ded
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./config.json
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/example.config.json b/example.config.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ca1f73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example.config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "storePath": "./data/",
+  "apiURL": "https://data.sensor.community/airrohr/v1/sensor/35943/",
+  "interval": 150
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/APIParser.java b/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/APIParser.java
index 36b6191..944cc65 100644
--- a/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/APIParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/APIParser.java
@@ -2,14 +2,11 @@ package sh.adb.sensorCommunityAPI;
 
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
 import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
-import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
 import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
-import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
@@ -17,7 +14,7 @@ import org.json.simple.parser.ParseException;
 
 public class APIParser {
     String url;
-    public APIParser(String urlString) throws MalformedURLException {
+    public APIParser(String urlString) {
         this.url = urlString;
     }
     public JSONArray getJSONObject() throws IOException, ParseException {
diff --git a/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/DataStore.java b/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/DataStore.java
index 5a96dee..e2b9798 100644
--- a/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/DataStore.java
+++ b/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/DataStore.java
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 package sh.adb.sensorCommunityAPI;
 
 import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
+import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
 
+import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
@@ -9,13 +11,25 @@ public class DataStore {
     public boolean storeJSON(String path, JSONObject json) throws IOException {
         FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(path);
         try {
+            System.out.println("store data to: " + path + " => ");
             System.out.println(json.toString());
             fw.write(json.toString());
             fw.close();
             return true;
         }catch (IOException e){
-            System.out.println("error wile soring data to: " + path);
+            System.out.println("error while soring data to: " + path);
         }
         return false;
     }
+    public JSONObject readJSON(String path){
+        JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
+
+        try {
+            System.out.println("reading file: " + path);
+            return (JSONObject) parser.parse(new FileReader(path));
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            System.out.println("error while reading file: " + path);
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/Main.java b/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/Main.java
index f30de28..3fd31fd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/Main.java
+++ b/src/main/java/sh/adb/sensorCommunityAPI/Main.java
@@ -1,10 +1,23 @@
 package sh.adb.sensorCommunityAPI;
 
+import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 public class Main {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
-        DataStoreBot bot = new DataStoreBot("./data/", "https://data.sensor.community/airrohr/v1/sensor/35943/");
-        bot.setInterval(150);
+        DataStore store = new DataStore();
+        JSONObject config = store.readJSON("config.json");
+        if (config == null){
+            config = store.readJSON("example.config.json");
+        }
+
+        DataStoreBot bot = new DataStoreBot(
+                config.get("storePath").toString(),
+                config.get("apiURL").toString()
+        );
+        bot.setInterval(Integer.parseInt(
+                config.get("interval").toString()
+        ));
     }
 }