diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5d1d2b9..b4e47a1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "4.2.7", features = ["cargo", "derive"] }
+regex = "1.8.1"
+reqwest = { version = "0.11.17", features = ["blocking", "json"] }
+serde_json = "1.0.96"
+spaceapi = "0.9.0"
diff --git a/src/client.rs b/src/client.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1663566
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+use regex::Regex;
+use spaceapi::Status;
+
+fn get_spaceapi(url: String) -> Status {
+    let user_agent = "spaceapi2prometheus";
+    let status: Status;
+    loop {
+        let client = reqwest::blocking::Client::builder()
+            .user_agent(user_agent)
+            .build();
+        if let Ok(c) = client {
+            let res = c.get(url).send().unwrap().text().unwrap();
+            status = serde_json::from_str(&res).unwrap();
+            break;
+        }
+        eprintln!("Failed to connect to endpoint, trying again!");
+        std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(10 * 1000));
+    }
+
+    status
+}
+
+fn parse_capacity(msg: &str) -> i8 {
+    let regex = Regex::new(r"\d*").unwrap();
+    let captures = regex.captures(msg).unwrap();
+
+    captures[0].parse::<i8>().unwrap()
+}
+
+pub fn get_prometheus_string(url: String) -> String {
+    let status = get_spaceapi(url);
+    let capacity = parse_capacity(&status.clone().state.unwrap().message.unwrap());
+    let lastchange = status.state.unwrap().lastchange.unwrap();
+
+    format!("people {} {}000\n", capacity, lastchange)
+}
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 8890ab9..89c3827 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 use clap::Parser;
 
+mod client;
+
 #[derive(Parser)]
 #[command(version, about)]
 struct Cli {