diff --git a/bin/swh-loader-dir b/bin/swh-loader-dir
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-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-
-# NOT FOR PRODUCTION
-
-# 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.loader.dir.loader import DirLoader
-from swh.core import config
-
-config_filename = sys.argv[1]
-
-logging.basicConfig(
-    level=logging.DEBUG,
-    format='%(asctime)s %(name)s %(levelname)s %(message)s',
-    handlers=[
-        logging.StreamHandler()
-    ],
-)
-
-requests_log = logging.getLogger("requests")
-requests_log.setLevel(logging.CRITICAL)
-
-
-def load_keys_from_properties(conf, key_pattern):
-    """Load keys from the dictionary conf which match the key_pattern.
-
-    """
-    m = {
-        key[len(key_pattern):]: value
-        for key, value in conf.items()
-        if key.startswith(key_pattern)
-    }
-    return m
-
-
-# full configuration needed to instantiate misc objects (release,
-# revision, etc...)
-simple_config = config.read(config_filename)
-
-dir_path = simple_config['dir_path']
-
-origin = load_keys_from_properties(simple_config, 'origin_')
-
-release = load_keys_from_properties(simple_config, 'release_')
-release['date'] = int(release['date'])  # hackish
-
-revision = load_keys_from_properties(simple_config, 'revision_')
-revision['committer_date'] = int(revision['committer_date'])  # hackish
-revision['author_date'] = int(revision['author_date'])  # hackish
-
-occurrence_2 = load_keys_from_properties(simple_config, 'occurrence2_')
-occurrence = load_keys_from_properties(simple_config, 'occurrence_')
-
-dir_loader_config = DirLoader.parse_config_file(config_filename)
-loader = DirLoader(dir_loader_config)
-loader.process(dir_path, origin, revision, release, [occurrence, occurrence_2])