diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index dd72772..e0f2c3e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ profiles.clj
 *.swp
 resources/posts/
 /resources/author/
+resources/index/
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 18854a1..2f86b94 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
                  [clojure.java-time "0.3.2"]
                  [org.clojure/data.json "0.2.7"]
                  [cprop "0.1.15"]
+                 [clucy "0.4.0"]
                  [expound "0.8.3"]
                  [funcool/struct "1.4.0"]
                  [luminus-jetty "0.1.7"]
diff --git a/src/clj/shapey_shifty/index/index.clj b/src/clj/shapey_shifty/index/index.clj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea7b205
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/clj/shapey_shifty/index/index.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+(ns shapey-shifty.index.index
+  (:require [clucy.core :as clucy]
+            [shapey-shifty.posts.posts-io :as post-io]
+            ))
+
+(def index-path (atom "resources/index"))
+
+(def post-index (clucy/disk-index @index-path))
+
+(defn add-post-to-index [post]
+  (clucy/add post-index post))
+
+(defn crawl-posts!
+  ([path]
+   (crawl-posts! path post-io/read-post))
+  ([path parsing-fn] 
+   (->> path
+        clojure.java.io/file
+        file-seq
+        (filter #(.isFile %))
+        (mapv #(parsing-fn %))
+        (apply add-post-to-index))))
diff --git a/src/clj/shapey_shifty/posts/posts_io.clj b/src/clj/shapey_shifty/posts/posts_io.clj
index 13ca6a1..27bf50a 100644
--- a/src/clj/shapey_shifty/posts/posts_io.clj
+++ b/src/clj/shapey_shifty/posts/posts_io.clj
@@ -35,12 +35,11 @@
         card (get author :card)]
     (assoc post :author card)))
 
-(defn read-post [dt-path n]
-  (let [path (format "%s/%s/%s/%s" base-posts-path (pathmap-to-path dt-path) n post-filename)
-        f (clojure.java.io/file path)]
-    (when (.exists f)
-      (-> f
-          slurp
-          read-string
-          assoc-author
-          ))))
+(defn read-post
+  ([file]
+   (when (.exists file)
+     (-> file slurp read-string assoc-author)))
+  ([dt-path n]
+   (let [path (format "%s/%s/%s/%s" base-posts-path (pathmap-to-path dt-path) n post-filename)
+         f (clojure.java.io/file path)]
+     (read-post f))))