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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Copyright (C) 2015  The Software Heritage developers
+# See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
+# License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
+# See top-level LICENSE file for more information
+
+import logging
+import sys
+
+from swh.core.logger import PostgresHandler
+from swh.loader.dir import DirLoader
+
+
+ADDITIONAL_CONFIG = {
+    'dir_path': ('str', None),
+
+    # origin information
+    'origin_url': ('str', 'file:///dev/null'),
+    # occurrence information
+    'branch': ('str', 'master'),
+    'authority': ('int', 1),
+    'validity': ('str', '2015-01-01 00:00:00+00'),
+    # revision information
+    'revision_date': ('str', '2015-01-01 00:00:00+00'),
+    'revision_offset': ('str', '2'),
+    'revision_committer_date': ('str', '2015-01-01 00:00:00+00'),
+    'revision_committer_offset': ('str', '2'),
+    'revision_type': ('str', 'dir'),
+    'revision_message': ('str', 'synthetic revision message'),
+    'revision_author': ('str', 'swh author'),
+    'revision_committer': ('str', 'swh committer')
+}
+
+
+my_config = BulkLoader.parse_config_file(config_filename=sys.argv[1],
+                                         additional_configs=[ADDITIONAL_CONFIG])
+
+
+logging.basicConfig(
+    level=logging.DEBUG,
+    format='%(asctime)s %(name)s %(levelname)s %(message)s',
+    handlers=[
+        logging.StreamHandler(),
+        PostgresHandler(my_config['log_db']),
+    ],
+)
+
+requests_log = logging.getLogger("requests")
+requests_log.setLevel(logging.CRITICAL)
+
+
+
+loader = DirLoader(my_config)
+loader.process(my_config['dir_path'])