diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7fcc1ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.dst/*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 5529c15..89c7973 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 package main
 
-import "fmt"
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/go-getter"
+)
 
 // TODO add support for `status-react`
 
@@ -17,13 +20,37 @@ const (
 	ignore    = statusDir + "/vendor"
 )
 
+type Repo struct {
+	Dst string
+	Src string
+	FileTypes []string // To be used with (tf TodoFinder) isValidFile
+}
+
+var (
+	repos = []Repo{
+		{"./.dst/status-go", "github.com/status-im/status-go", []string{"go"}},
+		{"./.dst/status-react", "github.com/status-im/status-react", []string{"cljs"}},
+	}
+)
+
 func main() {
-	tf, err := NewTodoFinder()
+	repo := &Repo{
+		Dst:  ".dst/todos-to-docs",
+		Src: "github.com/status-im/todo-to-docs",
+		FileTypes: []string{"go"},
+	}
+
+	err := getter.Get(repo.Dst, repo.Src)
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
 
-	err = tf.FindInDir(statusDir)
+	tf, err := NewTodoFinder(repo)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	err = tf.Find()
 	if err != nil {
 		panic(err)
 	}
diff --git a/todo_finder.go b/todo_finder.go
index a2bb149..38f3960 100644
--- a/todo_finder.go
+++ b/todo_finder.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"regexp"
@@ -22,13 +23,16 @@ type TodoFinder struct {
 	openTodo *todo
 
 	keywords []string
+
+	repo *Repo
 }
 
-func NewTodoFinder() (TodoFinder, error) {
+func NewTodoFinder(repo *Repo) (TodoFinder, error) {
 	tf := TodoFinder{
 		FoundTable: []*todo{},
 		foundTree:  &node{Name: "root", Type: DIR},
 		keywords:   []string{"todo", "fixme"},
+		repo: repo,
 	}
 
 	return tf, tf.init()
@@ -58,6 +62,14 @@ func (tf *TodoFinder) AddTodo(t *todo) {
 	tf.foundTree.AddToTree(t.Path(), t)
 }
 
+func (tf *TodoFinder) Find() error {
+	if tf.repo == nil {
+		return errors.New("repo not set")
+	}
+
+	return tf.FindInDir(tf.repo.Dst)
+}
+
 func (tf *TodoFinder) FindInDir(dir string) error {
 	files, err := ioutil.ReadDir(dir)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -78,7 +90,7 @@ func (tf *TodoFinder) FindInDir(dir string) error {
 			}
 		}
 
-		if !tf.isGoFile(f.Name()) {
+		if !tf.isValidFile(f.Name()) {
 			continue
 		}
 
@@ -122,16 +134,23 @@ func (tf *TodoFinder) FindInDir(dir string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (tf TodoFinder) isGoFile(name string) bool {
-	if len(name) < 3 {
-		return false
+func (tf TodoFinder) isValidFile(name string) bool {
+	valid := false
+	for _, ft := range tf.repo.FileTypes {
+		ftl := len(ft) + 1
+		if len(name) < ftl {
+			return false
+		}
+		last := name[ftl:]
+		valid = last == "."+ft
 	}
-	last := name[len(name)-3:]
-	return last == ".go"
+	return valid
 }
 
 func (tf TodoFinder) buildRegexPattern() string {
 	kwp := tf.makeRegexKeywords()
+	// TODO add functionality for other types of commenting out
+	//  example ';;' or ';' for clojure, '#' and '/* */' blocks
 	return fmt.Sprintf("//.*((%s)(.*))", kwp)
 }
 
diff --git a/todo_finder_test.go b/todo_finder_test.go
index 6a4eea2..34001d5 100644
--- a/todo_finder_test.go
+++ b/todo_finder_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/go-getter"
 	"testing"
 )
 
@@ -18,3 +19,11 @@ func TestNode_AddToTree(t *testing.T) {
 
 	spew.Dump(n)
 }
+
+// TODO use `getter` to get a local copy of the repo.
+//  getter checks if the local files are upto date with the repo, if not updates otherwise continues
+func TestNewTodoFinder(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, repo := range repos {
+		spew.Dump(getter.Get(repo.Dst, repo.Src))
+	}
+}