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+#!/Users/brian/Projects/twitter_scraper/venv/bin/python
+from discord_logging.handler import DiscordHandler
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+import logging
+import os
+
+def setup_logging():
+    # setup stream handler
+    fmt = '[%(asctime)s] %(levelname)s:%(filename)s:%(funcName)s:%(message)s'
+    datefmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
+    logger_level = os.getenv('LOGGER_LEVEL')
+    level = getattr(logging, logger_level.upper())
+    logging.basicConfig(format=fmt, datefmt=datefmt, level=level)
+    logger = logging.getLogger()
+    # add discord handler
+    discord_handler = DiscordHandler(
+        service_name = 'data_collection',
+        webhook_url = os.getenv('DISCORD_URL'),
+    )
+    discord_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(message)s'))
+    discord_handler.setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+    logger.addHandler(discord_handler)
+    logging.debug('finished')
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    load_dotenv()
+    setup_logging()
+    logging.warning('test')