diff --git a/input.py b/input.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a41b7f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/input.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+import sys
+
+filename = sys.argv[1]
+
+print(filename)
+
+with open(filename) as file:
+    text = file.readlines()
+
+tokenised = [line.strip().split() for line in text]
+
+videoCount = tokenised[0][0]
+endpointCount = tokenised[0][1]
+requestDescriptionCount = tokenised[0][2]
+cacheCount = tokenised[0][3]
+cacheSize = tokenised[0][4]
+
+print(videoCount)