diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 8f50b13..6cb75b3 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -1,275 +1,26 @@
 const fs = require('fs');
 const luxon = require('luxon');
-const minimist = require('minimist');
 const path = require('path');
 const request = require('request');
-const turndown = require('turndown');
-const xml2js = require('xml2js');
+
+const shared = require('./src/shared');
+const wizard = require('./src/wizard');
+const parser = require('./src/parser');
 
 // global so various functions can access arguments
-let argv;
+let config;
 
-function init() {
-	argv = minimist(process.argv.slice(2), {
-		string: [
-			'input',
-			'output'
-		],
-		boolean: [
-			'yearmonthfolders',
-			'yearfolders',
-			'postfolders',
-			'prefixdate',
-			'saveimages',
-			'addcontentimages'
-		],
-		default: {
-			input: 'export.xml',
-			output: 'output',
-			yearmonthfolders: false,
-			yearfolders: false,
-			postfolders: true,
-			prefixdate: false,
-			saveimages: true,
-			addcontentimages: false
-		}
-	});
-
-	let content = readFile(argv.input);
-	parseFileContent(content);
-}
-
-function readFile(path) {
+async function init() {
 	try {
-		return fs.readFileSync(path, 'utf8');
+		config = wizard.getConfig();
+		let posts = await parser.parseFilePromise(config)
+		writeFiles(posts);
 	} catch (ex) {
-		console.log('Unable to read file.');
-		console.log(ex.message);
+		// appease the UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning
+		console.error(ex);
 	}
 }
 
-function parseFileContent(content) {
-	const processors = { tagNameProcessors: [ xml2js.processors.stripPrefix ] };
-	xml2js.parseString(content, processors, (err, data) => {
-		if (err) {
-			console.log('Unable to parse file content.');
-			console.log(err);        
-		} else {
-			processData(data);
-		}
-	});
-}
-
-function processData(data) {
-	let images = collectImages(data);
-	let posts = collectPosts(data);
-	mergeImagesIntoPosts(images, posts);
-	writeFiles(posts);
-}
-
-function collectImages(data) {
-	// start by collecting all attachment images
-	let images = getItemsOfType(data, 'attachment')
-		// filter to certain image file types
-		.filter(attachment => (/\.(gif|jpg|png)$/i).test(attachment.attachment_url[0]))
-		.map(attachment => ({
-			id: attachment.post_id[0],
-			postId: attachment.post_parent[0],
-			url: attachment.attachment_url[0]
-		}));
-
-	// optionally add images scraped from <img> tags in post content
-	if (argv.addcontentimages) {
-		addContentImages(data, images);
-	}
-
-	return images;
-}
-
-function addContentImages(data, images) {
-	let regex = (/<img[^>]*src="(.+?\.(?:gif|jpg|png))"[^>]*>/gi);
-	let match;
-
-	getItemsOfType(data, 'post').forEach(post => {
-		let postId = post.post_id[0];
-		let postContent = post.encoded[0];
-		let postLink = post.link[0];
-
-		// reset lastIndex since we're reusing the same regex object
-		regex.lastIndex = 0;
-		while ((match = regex.exec(postContent)) !== null) {
-			// base the matched image URL relative to the post URL
-			let url = new URL(match[1], postLink).href;
-
-			// add image if it hasn't already been added for this post
-			let exists = images.some(image => image.postId === postId && image.url === url);
-			if (!exists) {
-				images.push({
-					id: -1,
-					postId: postId,
-					url: url
-				});
-				console.log('Scraped ' + url + '.');
-			}
-		}
-	});	
-}
-
-function collectPosts(data) {
-	// this is passed into getPostContent() for the markdown conversion
-	turndownService = initTurndownService();
-
-	return getItemsOfType(data, 'post')
-		.map(post => ({
-			// meta data isn't written to file, but is used to help with other things
-			meta: {
-				id: getPostId(post),
-				slug: getPostSlug(post),
-				coverImageId: getPostCoverImageId(post)
-			},
-			frontmatter: {
-				title: getPostTitle(post),
-				date: getPostDate(post)
-			},
-			content: getPostContent(post, turndownService)
-		}));
-}
-
-function initTurndownService() {
-	let turndownService = new turndown({
-		headingStyle: 'atx',
-		bulletListMarker: '-',
-		codeBlockStyle: 'fenced'
-	});
-
-	// preserve embedded tweets
-	turndownService.addRule('tweet', {
-		filter: node => node.nodeName === 'BLOCKQUOTE' && node.getAttribute('class') === 'twitter-tweet',
-		replacement: (content, node) => '\n\n' + node.outerHTML
-	});
-
-	// preserve embedded codepens
-	turndownService.addRule('codepen', {
-		filter: node => {
-			// codepen embed snippets have changed over the years
-			// but this series of checks should find the commonalities
-			return (
-				['P', 'DIV'].includes(node.nodeName) &&
-				node.attributes['data-slug-hash'] && 
-				node.getAttribute('class') === 'codepen'
-			);
-		},
-		replacement: (content, node) => '\n\n' + node.outerHTML
-	});
-		
-	// preserve embedded scripts (for tweets, codepens, gists, etc.)
-	turndownService.addRule('script', {
-		filter: 'script',
-		replacement: (content, node) => {
-			let before = '\n\n';
-			let src = node.getAttribute('src');
-			if (node.previousSibling && node.previousSibling.nodeName !== '#text') {
-				// keep twitter and codepen <script> tags snug with the element above them
-				before = '\n';
-			}
-			let html = node.outerHTML.replace('async=""', 'async');
-			return before + html + '\n\n';
-		}
-	});
-
-	// preserve iframes (common for embedded audio/video)
-	turndownService.addRule('iframe', {
-		filter: 'iframe',
-		replacement: (content, node) => {
-			let html = node.outerHTML
-				.replace('allowfullscreen=""', 'allowfullscreen');
-			return '\n\n' + html + '\n\n';
-		}
-	});
-
-	return turndownService;
-}
-
-function getItemsOfType(data, type) {
-	return data.rss.channel[0].item.filter(item => item.post_type[0] === type);
-}
-
-function getPostId(post) {
-	return post.post_id[0];
-}
-
-function getPostCoverImageId(post) {
-	if (post.postmeta === undefined) return;
-	let postmeta = post.postmeta.find(postmeta => postmeta.meta_key[0] === '_thumbnail_id');
-	let id = postmeta ? postmeta.meta_value[0] : undefined;
-	return id;
-}
-
-function getPostSlug(post) {
-	return post.post_name[0];
-}
-
-function getPostTitle(post) {
-	return post.title[0].trim().replace(/"/g, '\\"');
-}
-
-function getPostDate(post) {
-	return luxon.DateTime.fromRFC2822(post.pubDate[0], { zone: 'utc' }).toISODate();
-}
-
-function getPostContent(post, turndownService) {
-	let content = post.encoded[0].trim();
-
-	// insert an empty div element between double line breaks
-	// this nifty trick causes turndown to keep adjacent paragraphs separated
-	// without mucking up content inside of other elemnts (like <code> blocks)
-	content = content.replace(/(\r?\n){2}/g, '\n<div></div>\n');
-
-	if (argv.addcontentimages) {
-		// writeImageFile() will save all content images to a relative /images
-		// folder so update references in post content to match
-		content = content.replace(/(<img[^>]*src=").*?([^\/"]+\.(?:gif|jpg|png))("[^>]*>)/gi, '$1images/$2$3');
-	}
-
-	// this is a hack to make <iframe> nodes non-empty by inserting a "." which
-	// allows the iframe rule declared in initTurndownService() to take effect
-	// (using turndown's blankRule() and keep() solution did not work for me)
-	content = content.replace(/(<\/iframe>)/gi, '.$1');
-
-	// use turndown to convert HTML to Markdown
-	content = turndownService.turndown(content);
-
-	// clean up extra spaces in list items
-	content = content.replace(/(-|\d+\.) +/g, '$1 ');
-
-	// clean up the "." from the iframe hack above
-	content = content.replace(/\.(<\/iframe>)/gi, '$1');
-
-	return content;
-}
-
-function mergeImagesIntoPosts(images, posts) {
-	// create lookup table for quicker traversal
-	let postsLookup = posts.reduce((lookup, post) => {
-		lookup[post.meta.id] = post;
-		return lookup;
-	}, {});
-
-	images.forEach(image => {
-		let post = postsLookup[image.postId];
-		if (post) {
-			// save full image URLs for downloading later
-			post.meta.imageUrls = post.meta.imageUrls || [];
-			post.meta.imageUrls.push(image.url);
-
-			if (image.id === post.meta.coverImageId) {
-				// save cover image filename to frontmatter
-				post.frontmatter.coverImage = getFilenameFromUrl(image.url);
-			}
-		}
-	});
-}
-
 function writeFiles(posts) {
 	let delay = 0;
 	posts.forEach(post => {
@@ -277,7 +28,7 @@ function writeFiles(posts) {
 		createDir(postDir);
 		writeMarkdownFile(post, postDir);
 
-		if (argv.saveimages && post.meta.imageUrls) {
+		if (config.saveimages && post.meta.imageUrls) {
 			post.meta.imageUrls.forEach(imageUrl => {
 				const imageDir = path.join(postDir, 'images');
 				createDir(imageDir);
@@ -307,7 +58,7 @@ function writeMarkdownFile(post, postDir) {
 }
 
 function writeImageFile(imageUrl, imageDir, delay) {
-	let imagePath = path.join(imageDir, getFilenameFromUrl(imageUrl));
+	let imagePath = path.join(imageDir, shared.getFilenameFromUrl(imageUrl));
 	let stream = fs.createWriteStream(imagePath);
 	stream.on('finish', () => {
 		console.log('Saved ' + imagePath + '.');
@@ -330,10 +81,6 @@ function writeImageFile(imageUrl, imageDir, delay) {
 	}, delay);
 }
 
-function getFilenameFromUrl(url) {
-	return url.split('/').slice(-1)[0];
-}
-
 function createDir(dir) {
 	try {
 		fs.accessSync(dir, fs.constants.F_OK);
@@ -343,18 +90,18 @@ function createDir(dir) {
 }
 
 function getPostDir(post) {
-	let dir = argv.output;
+	let dir = config.output;
 	let dt = luxon.DateTime.fromISO(post.frontmatter.date);
 
-	if (argv.yearmonthfolders) {
+	if (config.yearmonthfolders) {
 		dir = path.join(dir, dt.toFormat('yyyy'), dt.toFormat('LL'));
-	} else if (argv.yearfolders) {
+	} else if (config.yearfolders) {
 		dir = path.join(dir, dt.toFormat('yyyy'));
 	}
 
-	if (argv.postfolders) {
+	if (config.postfolders) {
 		let folder = post.meta.slug;
-		if (argv.prefixdate) {
+		if (config.prefixdate) {
 			folder = dt.toFormat('yyyy-LL-dd') + '-' + folder;
 		}
 		dir = path.join(dir, folder);
@@ -364,12 +111,12 @@ function getPostDir(post) {
 }
 
 function getPostFilename(post) {
-	if (argv.postfolders) {
+	if (config.postfolders) {
 		// the containing folder name will be unique, just use index.md here
 		return 'index.md';
 	} else {
 		let filename = post.meta.slug + '.md';
-		if (argv.prefixdate) {
+		if (config.prefixdate) {
 			let dt = luxon.DateTime.fromISO(post.frontmatter.date);
 			filename = dt.toFormat('yyyy-LL-dd') + '-' + filename;
 		}
diff --git a/src/parser.js b/src/parser.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c022877
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/parser.js
@@ -0,0 +1,232 @@
+const fs = require('fs');
+const luxon = require('luxon');
+const turndown = require('turndown');
+const xml2js = require('xml2js');
+
+const shared = require('./shared');
+
+let config;
+
+async function parseFilePromise(configIn) {
+	const content = fs.readFileSync(configIn.input, 'utf8');
+
+	const processors = { tagNameProcessors: [xml2js.processors.stripPrefix] };
+	const data = await xml2js.parseStringPromise(content, processors);
+
+	config = configIn;
+
+	let posts = processData(data);
+	return Promise.resolve(posts);
+}
+
+function processData(data) {
+	let images = collectImages(data);
+	let posts = collectPosts(data);
+	mergeImagesIntoPosts(images, posts);
+	return posts;
+}
+
+function collectImages(data) {
+	// start by collecting all attachment images
+	let images = getItemsOfType(data, 'attachment')
+		// filter to certain image file types
+		.filter(attachment => (/\.(gif|jpg|png)$/i).test(attachment.attachment_url[0]))
+		.map(attachment => ({
+			id: attachment.post_id[0],
+			postId: attachment.post_parent[0],
+			url: attachment.attachment_url[0]
+		}));
+
+	// optionally add images scraped from <img> tags in post content
+	if (config.addcontentimages) {
+		addContentImages(data, images);
+	}
+
+	return images;
+}
+
+function addContentImages(data, images) {
+	let regex = (/<img[^>]*src="(.+?\.(?:gif|jpg|png))"[^>]*>/gi);
+	let match;
+
+	getItemsOfType(data, 'post').forEach(post => {
+		let postId = post.post_id[0];
+		let postContent = post.encoded[0];
+		let postLink = post.link[0];
+
+		// reset lastIndex since we're reusing the same regex object
+		regex.lastIndex = 0;
+		while ((match = regex.exec(postContent)) !== null) {
+			// base the matched image URL relative to the post URL
+			let url = new URL(match[1], postLink).href;
+
+			// add image if it hasn't already been added for this post
+			let exists = images.some(image => image.postId === postId && image.url === url);
+			if (!exists) {
+				images.push({
+					id: -1,
+					postId: postId,
+					url: url
+				});
+				console.log('Scraped ' + url + '.');
+			}
+		}
+	});	
+}
+
+function collectPosts(data) {
+	// this is passed into getPostContent() for the markdown conversion
+	turndownService = initTurndownService();
+
+	return getItemsOfType(data, 'post')
+		.map(post => ({
+			// meta data isn't written to file, but is used to help with other things
+			meta: {
+				id: getPostId(post),
+				slug: getPostSlug(post),
+				coverImageId: getPostCoverImageId(post)
+			},
+			frontmatter: {
+				title: getPostTitle(post),
+				date: getPostDate(post)
+			},
+			content: getPostContent(post, turndownService)
+		}));
+}
+
+function initTurndownService() {
+	let turndownService = new turndown({
+		headingStyle: 'atx',
+		bulletListMarker: '-',
+		codeBlockStyle: 'fenced'
+	});
+
+	// preserve embedded tweets
+	turndownService.addRule('tweet', {
+		filter: node => node.nodeName === 'BLOCKQUOTE' && node.getAttribute('class') === 'twitter-tweet',
+		replacement: (content, node) => '\n\n' + node.outerHTML
+	});
+
+	// preserve embedded codepens
+	turndownService.addRule('codepen', {
+		filter: node => {
+			// codepen embed snippets have changed over the years
+			// but this series of checks should find the commonalities
+			return (
+				['P', 'DIV'].includes(node.nodeName) &&
+				node.attributes['data-slug-hash'] && 
+				node.getAttribute('class') === 'codepen'
+			);
+		},
+		replacement: (content, node) => '\n\n' + node.outerHTML
+	});
+		
+	// preserve embedded scripts (for tweets, codepens, gists, etc.)
+	turndownService.addRule('script', {
+		filter: 'script',
+		replacement: (content, node) => {
+			let before = '\n\n';
+			let src = node.getAttribute('src');
+			if (node.previousSibling && node.previousSibling.nodeName !== '#text') {
+				// keep twitter and codepen <script> tags snug with the element above them
+				before = '\n';
+			}
+			let html = node.outerHTML.replace('async=""', 'async');
+			return before + html + '\n\n';
+		}
+	});
+
+	// preserve iframes (common for embedded audio/video)
+	turndownService.addRule('iframe', {
+		filter: 'iframe',
+		replacement: (content, node) => {
+			let html = node.outerHTML
+				.replace('allowfullscreen=""', 'allowfullscreen');
+			return '\n\n' + html + '\n\n';
+		}
+	});
+
+	return turndownService;
+}
+
+function getItemsOfType(data, type) {
+	return data.rss.channel[0].item.filter(item => item.post_type[0] === type);
+}
+
+function getPostId(post) {
+	return post.post_id[0];
+}
+
+function getPostCoverImageId(post) {
+	if (post.postmeta === undefined) return;
+	let postmeta = post.postmeta.find(postmeta => postmeta.meta_key[0] === '_thumbnail_id');
+	let id = postmeta ? postmeta.meta_value[0] : undefined;
+	return id;
+}
+
+function getPostSlug(post) {
+	return post.post_name[0];
+}
+
+function getPostTitle(post) {
+	return post.title[0].trim().replace(/"/g, '\\"');
+}
+
+function getPostDate(post) {
+	return luxon.DateTime.fromRFC2822(post.pubDate[0], { zone: 'utc' }).toISODate();
+}
+
+function getPostContent(post, turndownService) {
+	let content = post.encoded[0].trim();
+
+	// insert an empty div element between double line breaks
+	// this nifty trick causes turndown to keep adjacent paragraphs separated
+	// without mucking up content inside of other elemnts (like <code> blocks)
+	content = content.replace(/(\r?\n){2}/g, '\n<div></div>\n');
+
+	if (config.addcontentimages) {
+		// writeImageFile() will save all content images to a relative /images
+		// folder so update references in post content to match
+		content = content.replace(/(<img[^>]*src=").*?([^\/"]+\.(?:gif|jpg|png))("[^>]*>)/gi, '$1images/$2$3');
+	}
+
+	// this is a hack to make <iframe> nodes non-empty by inserting a "." which
+	// allows the iframe rule declared in initTurndownService() to take effect
+	// (using turndown's blankRule() and keep() solution did not work for me)
+	content = content.replace(/(<\/iframe>)/gi, '.$1');
+
+	// use turndown to convert HTML to Markdown
+	content = turndownService.turndown(content);
+
+	// clean up extra spaces in list items
+	content = content.replace(/(-|\d+\.) +/g, '$1 ');
+
+	// clean up the "." from the iframe hack above
+	content = content.replace(/\.(<\/iframe>)/gi, '$1');
+
+	return content;
+}
+
+function mergeImagesIntoPosts(images, posts) {
+	// create lookup table for quicker traversal
+	let postsLookup = posts.reduce((lookup, post) => {
+		lookup[post.meta.id] = post;
+		return lookup;
+	}, {});
+
+	images.forEach(image => {
+		let post = postsLookup[image.postId];
+		if (post) {
+			// save full image URLs for downloading later
+			post.meta.imageUrls = post.meta.imageUrls || [];
+			post.meta.imageUrls.push(image.url);
+
+			if (image.id === post.meta.coverImageId) {
+				// save cover image filename to frontmatter
+				post.frontmatter.coverImage = shared.getFilenameFromUrl(image.url);
+			}
+		}
+	});
+}
+
+exports.parseFilePromise = parseFilePromise;
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diff --git a/src/shared.js b/src/shared.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5398675
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/shared.js
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+function getFilenameFromUrl(url) {
+	return url.split('/').slice(-1)[0];
+}
+
+exports.getFilenameFromUrl = getFilenameFromUrl;
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diff --git a/src/wizard.js b/src/wizard.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d601880
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/wizard.js
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+const fs = require('fs');
+const minimist = require('minimist');
+
+function getConfig() {
+	let args = process.argv.slice(2);
+	let config = minimist(args, {
+		string: [
+			'input',
+			'output'
+		],
+		boolean: [
+			'yearmonthfolders',
+			'yearfolders',
+			'postfolders',
+			'prefixdate',
+			'saveimages',
+			'addcontentimages'
+		],
+		default: {
+			input: 'export.xml',
+			output: 'output',
+			yearmonthfolders: false,
+			yearfolders: false,
+			postfolders: true,
+			prefixdate: false,
+			saveimages: true,
+			addcontentimages: false
+		}
+	});
+
+	// TODO: when wizard is implemented user will be asked to repeat input instead of bombing
+	if (!checkFileExists(config.input)) {
+		throw new Error('Input file does not exist.');
+	}
+	
+	delete config._;
+	return config;	
+}
+
+function checkFileExists(path) {
+	try {
+		return fs.existsSync(path);
+	} catch(ex) {
+		return false;
+	}
+}
+
+exports.getConfig = getConfig;
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diff --git a/src/writer.js b/src/writer.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29