diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de288e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "python.formatting.provider": "black"
+}
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diff --git a/automod_updater/__init__.py b/automod_updater/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/automod_updater/main.py b/automod_updater/main.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b5a2e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/automod_updater/main.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import praw
+import os
+import re
+import ruamel.yaml
+
+sub_name = os.environ["SUBREDDIT_NAME"]
+client_id = os.environ["REDDIT_CLIENT_ID"]
+client_secret = os.environ["REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET"]
+reddit_pass = os.environ["REDDIT_PASSWORD"]
+username = os.environ["REDDIT_USERNAME"]
+
+# Create a Reddit instance
+reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id=client_id,
+                     client_secret=client_secret,
+                     user_agent=f"Automod reader by u/{username}",
+                     username=username,
+                     password=reddit_pass)
+
+# Get the subreddit object
+subreddit = reddit.subreddit(sub_name)
+
+for wikipage in subreddit.wiki:
+    if wikipage == f"{sub_name}/config/automoderator":
+        content = subreddit.wiki["config/automoderator"]
+        break
+
+if content is None:
+    print("AutoModerator configuration page not found in the subreddit's wiki")
+    exit(1)
+
+# Read the AutoModerator configuration
+automod_config = content.content_md
+
+config_text = content.content_md
+yaml_sections = re.split(r'(?m)^---\n', config_text)[1:]
+
+rules = []
+
+# Parse each YAML section to get the rules
+for yaml_text in yaml_sections:
+    rule = {}
+    comment_pattern = r"^\s*#\s*(.*)$"
+    comments = [
+        match.group(1)
+        for match in re.finditer(comment_pattern, yaml_text, re.MULTILINE)
+    ]
+    # Load the YAML data using ruamel.yaml
+    yaml_data = ruamel.yaml.safe_load(yaml_text)
+
+    if len(comments) > 0:
+        rule[comments[0]] = yaml_data
+        rules.append(rule)
+
+for rule in rules:
+    for key, value in rule.items():
+        print("rule name: ", key)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 102d7f2..af66743 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 praw
-feedparser
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+feedparser
+pyyaml
+ruamel.yaml
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