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+**Objective**
+
+These Python scripts allow to extract records from the DineConnect API and post them to a Mongo database.
+
+**Requirements**
+
+* Python installed on the machine running this application.
+* Credentials for accessing the DineConnect API - you need to request to DineConnect for your credentials.
+* Credentials for writing to a MongDB database - this database will be used for storing the data extracted from the DineConnect API.
+
+**How to run this application**
+
+* Copy the file `config-sample.py` to `config.py`.
+* Edit `config.py` with your credentials and defaults.
+* To extract the tickets records from the DineConnect API and post them to the Mongo database, run `python3 extract_tickets.py` and follow the instructions of the script.
+