diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..994dcb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
+requests==2.31.0
+schedule==1.2.0
diff --git a/src/c2cscrape.py b/src/c2cscrape.py
index c5ea35b..bcba18c 100644
--- a/src/c2cscrape.py
+++ b/src/c2cscrape.py
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     # Keep main thread alive with minimal resource usage
     try:
         while True:
+            print("waiting for timer")
+            print("time is: ", datetime.datetime.now())
             time.sleep(3600)  # Check once per hour
     except KeyboardInterrupt:
         print("\nStopping scheduled downloads...")