diff --git a/src/readability_lxml/client.py b/src/readability_lxml/client.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a1e371
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/readability_lxml/client.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+import argparse
+import sys
+
+from readability_lxmly import VERSION
+from readability_lxml.readability import Document
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    desc = "fast python port of arc90's readability tool"
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=desc)
+    parser.add_argument('--version',
+        action='version', version=VERSION)
+
+    parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose',
+        action='store_true',
+        default=False,
+        help="Increase logging verbosity to DEBUG.")
+
+    parser.add_argument('-u', '--url',
+        action='store',
+        default=None,
+        help="Indicate that this is a url path.")
+
+    parser.add_argument('path', metavar='P', type=str, nargs=1,
+        help="The url or file path to process in readable form.")
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    return args
+
+
+def main():
+    args = parse_args()
+
+    target = None
+    if args.url:
+        import urllib
+        target = urllib.urlopen(args.path[0])
+    else:
+        target = open(args.path[0], 'rt')
+
+    enc = sys.__stdout__.encoding or 'utf-8'
+
+    try:
+        doc = Document(target.read(),
+            debug=args.verbose,
+            url=args.url)
+        print doc.summary().encode(enc, 'replace')
+
+    finally:
+        target.close()
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/src/readability_lxml/readability.py b/src/readability_lxml/readability.py
index 168bc95..aaa8dab 100755
--- a/src/readability_lxml/readability.py
+++ b/src/readability_lxml/readability.py
@@ -531,59 +531,3 @@ class Document:
                 pass
 
         return clean_attributes(tounicode(node))
-
-
-class HashableElement():
-    def __init__(self, node):
-        self.node = node
-        self._path = None
-
-    def _get_path(self):
-        if self._path is None:
-            reverse_path = []
-            node = self.node
-            while node is not None:
-                node_id = (node.tag, tuple(node.attrib.items()), node.text)
-                reverse_path.append(node_id)
-                node = node.getparent()
-            self._path = tuple(reverse_path)
-        return self._path
-    path = property(_get_path)
-
-    def __hash__(self):
-        return hash(self.path)
-
-    def __eq__(self, other):
-        return self.path == other.path
-
-    def __getattr__(self, tag):
-        return getattr(self.node, tag)
-
-
-def main():
-    from optparse import OptionParser
-    parser = OptionParser(usage="%prog: [options] [file]")
-    parser.add_option('-v', '--verbose', action='store_true')
-    parser.add_option('-u', '--url', default=None, help="use URL instead of a local file")
-    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
-
-    if not (len(args) == 1 or options.url):
-        parser.print_help()
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-    file = None
-    if options.url:
-        import urllib
-        file = urllib.urlopen(options.url)
-    else:
-        file = open(args[0], 'rt')
-    enc = sys.__stdout__.encoding or 'utf-8'
-    try:
-        print Document(file.read(),
-            debug=options.verbose,
-            url=options.url).summary().encode(enc, 'replace')
-    finally:
-        file.close()
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()