diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b59d7d5..e217dad 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -136,7 +136,10 @@ name = "crawler"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "config",
+ "dirs",
+ "serde",
  "tokio",
+ "url",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -159,12 +162,42 @@ dependencies = [
  "crypto-common",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "dirs"
+version = "5.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "44c45a9d03d6676652bcb5e724c7e988de1acad23a711b5217ab9cbecbec2225"
+dependencies = [
+ "dirs-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "dirs-sys"
+version = "0.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "520f05a5cbd335fae5a99ff7a6ab8627577660ee5cfd6a94a6a929b52ff0321c"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "option-ext",
+ "redox_users",
+ "windows-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "dlv-list"
 version = "0.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0688c2a7f92e427f44895cd63841bff7b29f8d7a1648b9e7e07a4a365b2e1257"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "form_urlencoded"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a62bc1cf6f830c2ec14a513a9fb124d0a213a629668a4186f329db21fe045652"
+dependencies = [
+ "percent-encoding",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "frontend"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -211,6 +244,16 @@ version = "0.3.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "443144c8cdadd93ebf52ddb4056d257f5b52c04d3c804e657d19eb73fc33668b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "idna"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7d20d6b07bfbc108882d88ed8e37d39636dcc260e15e30c45e6ba089610b917c"
+dependencies = [
+ "unicode-bidi",
+ "unicode-normalization",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.9"
@@ -323,6 +366,12 @@ version = "1.18.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "dd8b5dd2ae5ed71462c540258bedcb51965123ad7e7ccf4b9a8cafaa4a63576d"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "option-ext"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "04744f49eae99ab78e0d5c0b603ab218f515ea8cfe5a456d7629ad883a3b6e7d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ordered-multimap"
 version = "0.4.3"
@@ -351,7 +400,7 @@ checksum = "93f00c865fe7cabf650081affecd3871070f26767e7b2070a3ffae14c654b447"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
  "libc",
- "redox_syscall",
+ "redox_syscall 0.3.5",
  "smallvec",
  "windows-targets",
 ]
@@ -362,6 +411,12 @@ version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8835116a5c179084a830efb3adc117ab007512b535bc1a21c991d3b32a6b44dd"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "percent-encoding"
+version = "2.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9b2a4787296e9989611394c33f193f676704af1686e70b8f8033ab5ba9a35a94"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pest"
 version = "2.7.1"
@@ -430,6 +485,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "redox_syscall"
+version = "0.2.16"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fb5a58c1855b4b6819d59012155603f0b22ad30cad752600aadfcb695265519a"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "redox_syscall"
 version = "0.3.5"
@@ -439,6 +503,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "redox_users"
+version = "0.4.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b033d837a7cf162d7993aded9304e30a83213c648b6e389db233191f891e5c2b"
+dependencies = [
+ "getrandom",
+ "redox_syscall 0.2.16",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ron"
 version = "0.7.1"
@@ -576,6 +651,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tinyvec"
+version = "1.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "87cc5ceb3875bb20c2890005a4e226a4651264a5c75edb2421b52861a0a0cb50"
+dependencies = [
+ "tinyvec_macros",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "tinyvec_macros"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1f3ccbac311fea05f86f61904b462b55fb3df8837a366dfc601a0161d0532f20"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio"
 version = "1.29.1"
@@ -628,12 +718,39 @@ version = "0.1.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ed646292ffc8188ef8ea4d1e0e0150fb15a5c2e12ad9b8fc191ae7a8a7f3c4b9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-bidi"
+version = "0.3.13"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "92888ba5573ff080736b3648696b70cafad7d250551175acbaa4e0385b3e1460"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-ident"
 version = "1.0.11"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "301abaae475aa91687eb82514b328ab47a211a533026cb25fc3e519b86adfc3c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-normalization"
+version = "0.1.22"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5c5713f0fc4b5db668a2ac63cdb7bb4469d8c9fed047b1d0292cc7b0ce2ba921"
+dependencies = [
+ "tinyvec",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "url"
+version = "2.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "50bff7831e19200a85b17131d085c25d7811bc4e186efdaf54bbd132994a88cb"
+dependencies = [
+ "form_urlencoded",
+ "idna",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "version_check"
 version = "0.9.4"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c88d74c..a1480f4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ license = "AGPL-3.0-or-later"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
 config = "0.13.3"
+dirs = "5.0.1"
 chrono = "0.4.26"
 tokio = { version = "1.29.1", features = ["full"] }
+url = { version = "2.4.0", features = [ "serde" ] }
 
 [profile.release]
 strip = true
diff --git a/crawler/Cargo.toml b/crawler/Cargo.toml
index 03c5d6c..1fcc54f 100644
--- a/crawler/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crawler/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,3 +9,6 @@ license.workspace = true
 [dependencies]
 tokio.workspace = true
 config.workspace = true
+dirs.workspace = true
+url.workspace = true
+serde = { version = "1.0.175", features = [ "derive" ] }
diff --git a/crawler/src/main.rs b/crawler/src/main.rs
index 94f4cc1..818db0e 100644
--- a/crawler/src/main.rs
+++ b/crawler/src/main.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
+mod settings;
+
+use settings::Settings;
+
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() {
-    println!("meow!");
+    let settings = Settings::new();
+
+    println!("{:?}", settings);
 }
diff --git a/crawler/src/settings.rs b/crawler/src/settings.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d768b84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crawler/src/settings.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+use config::{Config, ConfigError, Environment, File};
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use url::Url;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
+#[allow(unused)]
+pub struct Settings {
+    strict: bool,
+    timeout: u8,
+    sitemap: Vec<Url>,
+}
+
+impl Settings {
+    pub fn new() -> Result<Self, ConfigError> {
+        let mut config_dir = match dirs::config_dir() {
+            Some(v) => v,
+            None => PathBuf::new(),
+        };
+        config_dir.push("ferret/crawler");
+
+        let s = Config::builder()
+            .add_source(File::from(config_dir))
+            .build()?;
+
+        s.try_deserialize()
+    }
+}