diff --git a/ebay_api.py b/ebay_api.py
index f6117c0..2fb04bd 100644
--- a/ebay_api.py
+++ b/ebay_api.py
@@ -9,29 +9,33 @@ big_data = pd.read_csv('big_data.csv')
 
 class FindingApi:
     '''Some docstring to get rid of linting errors'''
-    def __init__(self):
+    def __init__(self, service, pageNumber):
         self.service = [
             'findItemsAdvanced', 'findCompletedItems',
             'findItemsByKeywords', 'findItemsIneBayStores', 'findItemsByCategory',
             'findItemsByProduct'
-            ]
-        self.pageNumber = list(range(1, 63))
+            ][service]
+        self.pageNumber = list(range(1, pageNumber)) # 64 pages is recommended
+        # this will give equal weights to cats given call restraints
 
     # departments = ["3034","93427"] (womens and mens)
 
     def get_ids_from_cats(self):
-        '''Stop bothering me for docstrings.'''
+        '''
+        get_ids_from cats creates a 20-itemId list to use for the ShoppingApi
+        call
+        '''
         itemid_results_list = []
         for category_id in cat_list:
             for i in self.pageNumber:
                 params = {
-                    "OPERATION-NAME":self.service[4],
+                    "OPERATION-NAME":self.service, # make sure this works as intended
                     "SECURITY-APPNAME":"scottbea-xlister-PRD-6796e0ff6-14862949",
                     "SERVICE-VERSION":"1.13.0",
                     "RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT":"JSON",
                     "categoryId":category_id,
                     "paginationInput.entriesPerPage":"100",
-                    "paginationInput.PageNumber":self.pageNumber[i]
+                    "paginationInput.PageNumber":i # might need to change this
                     }
                 response = requests.get("https://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1",
                         params=params)
@@ -46,7 +50,8 @@ class FindingApi:
 
 class ShoppingApi(FindingApi):
     '''
-    I don't need no stinkin' dockstring, foo
+    Creates objects from ShoppingApi service calls that can interact with
+    pandas dataframes
     '''
     def get_item_from_findItemsByCategory(self, item_id_results):
         for twenty_id in item_id_results: