diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b3a5bb3..5cfff0a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,12 +11,11 @@ A command-line tool to fetch [Blacklight](https://themarkup.org/series/blackligh
 
 - `nvm use`
 - `npm install`
-- Create `urls.txt` file, with newline-separated absolute URLs to scan
-- `npm run main`
+- `./blacklight-query urls.txt` where `urls.txt` has newline-separated absolute URLs to scan
 
 ## Inputs
 
-Write all URLs you wish to scan as **absolute URLs** (including protocol, domain, and path) in a file named `urls.txt` in the root directory. Separate urls by newline.
+Write all URLs you wish to scan as **absolute URLs** (including protocol, domain, and path). Separate each URL with a newline.
 
 ### Sample `urls.txt` file
 
@@ -25,6 +24,13 @@ https://www.themarkup.org
 https://www.calmatters.org
 ```
 
+### You can use pipes
+
+You can also pipe your list of URLs.
+
+- `echo "https://themarkup.org/" | ./blacklight-query`
+- `./blacklight-query < urls.txt`
+
 ### Collector Options
 
 All of the [`blacklight-collector`](https://github.com/the-markup/blacklight-collector?tab=readme-ov-file#collector-configuration) options can be specified using this tool, by editing the `config` object in `main.ts`.
diff --git a/blacklight-query b/blacklight-query
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2cf5f70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/blacklight-query
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o pipefail
+set -o nounset
+
+dir=$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )
+
+if [ -t 0 ]; then
+    # URLs are passed as an argument value
+    if (( $# != 1 )) ; then
+        echo "Usage: blacklight-query urls.txt"
+        echo "       echo \"https://themarkup.org\" | blacklight-query"
+        echo "       blacklight-query < urls.txt"
+        echo
+        echo "Please provide a list of URLs, where each URL is on its own line."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    "$dir/node_modules/.bin/ts-node" --project "$dir/tsconfig.json" "$dir/src/main.ts" $1
+else
+    # URLs are piped to stdin
+    time=$(date +%s)
+    while read -r line ; do
+        echo $line >> "$dir/.urls-$time.txt"
+    done
+    "$dir/node_modules/.bin/ts-node" --project "$dir/tsconfig.json" "$dir/src/main.ts" "$dir/.urls-$time.txt"
+    rm "$dir/.urls-$time.txt"
+fi
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c446d37..63e0516 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
     "name": "@themarkup/blacklight-query",
     "version": "1.0.0",
     "description": "A simple tool to generate Blacklight-Collector scans of a list of urls",
-    "main": "build/index.js",
+    "main": "src/main.ts",
+    "bin": "./blacklight-query",
     "funding": {
         "type": "individual",
         "url": "https://themarkup.org/donate"
diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index e34bb5f..2bb3c59 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -6,12 +6,17 @@ import { collect } from "@themarkup/blacklight-collector";
 import { reportFailures } from "./utils";
 
 // Gather URLs from input file
-const urlsPath = join(__dirname, '../urls.txt');
+const urlsFile = process.argv[2];
+let urlsPath;
+if (urlsFile[0] == '/' || urlsFile[0] == '~') {
+  urlsPath = urlsFile;
+} else {
+  urlsPath = join(process.cwd(), urlsFile);
+}
+
 if (!fs.existsSync(urlsPath)) {
-  console.log(
-    "Please create a file named 'urls.txt', containing a newline-separated list of urls to scan."
-  );
-  exit();
+  console.log(`Could not find ${urlsPath}.`);
+  exit(1);
 }
 const urls = fs.readFileSync(urlsPath, "utf8");
 const urlsList = urls.trim().split(/\r?\n|\r|\n/g);