diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1269488..333cddd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
 data
+target
+.classpath
+.project
+.settings
+output
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index aa1e560..9e75a55 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
         <artifactId>lucene-analyzers-common</artifactId>
         <version>8.6.3</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+        <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
+        <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
+        <version>1.1.1</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/RI/P2/Parser.java b/src/main/java/org/RI/P2/Parser.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..642b190
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/RI/P2/Parser.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+package org.RI.P2;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+public class Parser {
+    private static List<File> files;
+
+    private static void readFiles(String directory) throws IOException {
+        files = Files.walk(Paths.get(directory)).filter(Files::isRegularFile).map(Path::toFile)
+                .collect(Collectors.toList());
+    }
+
+    private static void usage() {
+        System.out.println("Usage: Parser <directory>");
+        System.out.println("option directory: directory that contains JSON files");
+        System.exit(1);
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
+        if (args.length != 1) {
+            usage();
+        }
+        String directory = args[0];
+        readFiles(directory);
+    }
+}