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 You should fork this project and submit Pull Requests with your changes, ready to be code reviewed and merged into this project.
 
+If you want to test this code you will need to contact jcreek to get the `elasticsearch_address` and `token` needed in `config.json`. These must not be shared online or committed to the repo.
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 ## Add a command
 
 To add a command, edit the `commands.js` file.