diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1fcea7b..2e122ad 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ This is a simple webhook to push new cardiParties into the cardiParty channel.
 
 1. Create and activate [virtual env](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html)
 2. Install requirements: `pip install -r requirements.txt`
-3. Set up a cronjob
-    1. set the env values (see below)
-    2. set a time to run e.g. every 30 mins
-    3. set the command listed below under "Cron job command"
+3. Set up a cronjob (see below)
 4. Test cronjob works
 5. Relax
 
@@ -17,29 +14,36 @@ This is a simple webhook to push new cardiParties into the cardiParty channel.
 
 We run this on the newcardigan wordpress server.
 
-1. With a cron job we call the civiCRM API use `cv` to grab the details of the latest cardiParty
-2. We pipe that string into a python script
-3. The script checks a custom RSS feed for new parties
-4. If no new party, end
-5. If new party,
+1. With a cron job we call `get_party.sh`
+2. The shell script set env values and uses the civiCRM API using `cv` to grab the details of the latest cardiParty
+3. We pipe that string into `webhook.py`
+4. The script checks a custom RSS feed for new parties
+5. If no new party, end
+6. If new party,
     1. save the guid to `latest_post.txt` for the next round of checking
     2. use the image and title from the RSS feed and the details from the cv API call
     3. publish via a webhook to Discord
 
 ## env values
 
+These are all set in `get_party.sh`, not in crontab. Because we need most of them in a subsequent call (either inside `cv` or in `webhook.py`) we `export` them all.
+
 We need to include some secrets via environment values:
 
 **channel** is the channel ID (`DISCORD_CHANNEL`)
 **token** is the secret token for the webhook (`DISCORD_TOKEN`)
 **cardiparty_ping** is the ID of the `@cardiParty ping` role (`DISCORD_CARDIPARTY_PING`)
 
+There are also a couple of other things we need to do:
+**civicrm_settings** - set `CIVICRM_SETTINGS` so that `cv` can find it
+**venv** - we need to activate the venv using `source <path/to/venv>`
+
 ## Cron job command
 
 ```sh
-cv api4 Event.get '{"select":["title","address.city","start_date","summary"],"join":[["Address AS address","LEFT",["loc_block_id.address_id","=","address.id"]]],"orderBy":{"start_date":"DESC"},"limit":1}' | ./webhook.py
+*/15 * * * * cd /home/cardigan/rss-discord-bot && ./get_party.sh
 ```
-This should pipe a string like this into the script:
+`get_party.sh` should pipe a string like this into `webhook.py`:
 
 ```
 [{"id":108,"title":"Melbourne Art Library","address.city":"Melbourne","start_date":"2024-04-06 16:30:00","summary":"Melbourne Art Library (MAL) is a not-for-profit lending library that collects specialised art and design texts. They are proudly independent and are curious about what being a 'library' means."}]
@@ -49,4 +53,4 @@ This should pipe a string like this into the script:
 
 The rss feed is `https://newcardigan.org/category/cardiparties/?feed=cardipartyfeed`.
 
-This special `cardipartyfeed` is a slightly modified RSS2 feed. The only thing it does differently is include the featured image in an `enclosure` so that we can pick it up directly from the feed. See the newcardigan WordPress theme for how this works.
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+This special `cardipartyfeed` is a slightly modified RSS2 feed. The only thing it does differently is filter out everything that isn't a cardiparty ,and include the featured image in an `enclosure` so that we can pick it up directly from the feed. See the newcardigan WordPress theme for how this works.
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diff --git a/get_party.sh b/get_party.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 7b7d4ca..7fda6c0
--- a/get_party.sh
+++ b/get_party.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # set envs and paths
+export PATH=/home/cardigan/rss-discord-bot/venv/bin:usr/local/bin:usr/bin:
 source /home/cardigan/rss-discord-bot/venv/bin/activate
-python /home/cardigan/rss-discord-bot/venv/bin/python3.11
-DISCORD_CHANNEL=""
-DISCORD_TOKEN=""
-DISCORD_CARDIPARTY_PING=""
+export CIVICRM_SETTINGS="/var/www/html/wp-content/uploads/civicrm/civicrm.settings.php"
+export DISCORD_SERVER="<server_id>"
+export DISCORD_TOKEN="<token>"
+export DISCORD_CARDIPARTY_PING="<group_id>"
 
-# let's go
-cv api4 Event.get '{"select":["title","address.city","start_date","summary"],"join":[["Address AS address","LEFT",["loc_block_id.address_id","=","address.id"]]],"orderBy":{"start_date":"DESC"},"limit":1}' | ./webhook.py
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+cv api4 Event.get '{"select":["title","address.city","start_date","summary"],"join":[["Address AS address","LEFT",["loc_block_id.address_id","=","address.id"]]],"orderBy":{"start_date":"DESC"},"limit":1}' | ./webhook.py >> /home/cardigan/discord.log 2>&1
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diff --git a/webhook.py b/webhook.py
index 18aec8e..35281fd 100755
--- a/webhook.py
+++ b/webhook.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/home/cardigan/rss-discord-bot/venv/python/python3.11
 
 from datetime import datetime
 import json
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ import sys
 import feedparser
 import requests
 
-channel = os.getenv("DISCORD_CHANNEL")
-token = os.getenv("DISCORD_TOKEN")
+dc_server = os.getenv("DISCORD_SERVER") # this is actually the instance, not a channel
+token = os.getenv("DISCORD_TOKEN") # token for this bot
 cardiparty_ping = os.getenv("DISCORD_CARDIPARTY_PING")
 
 # get the latest cardiparty with image as enclosure
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ if guid != first.guid:
         }]
 
     headers = {'user-agent': 'cardiParty-discord-bot/1.0.0'}
-    url = f"https://discord.com/api/webhooks/{channel}/{token}"
+    url = f"https://discord.com/api/webhooks/{dc_server}/{token}"
     payload = {
         "thread_name": f"{first.title} | {title}",
         "content": content,
@@ -57,4 +57,5 @@ if guid != first.guid:
     }
 
     r = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
-    r.raise_for_status() # if we got a 4xx response this will log it out
+    print(r)
+    r.raise_for_status() # if we got a 4xx response this will log it