diff --git a/ebay_api.py b/ebay_api.py
index 4bea7fa..1cdaa19 100644
--- a/ebay_api.py
+++ b/ebay_api.py
@@ -185,17 +185,17 @@ class ShoppingApi:
             response = requests.get(url, headers=headers,timeout=24)
             response.raise_for_status()
             response = response.json()
-            response = response['Item']
-            print(response)
+            item = response['Item']
 
 
         except (requests.exceptions.RequestException, KeyError):
             print('connection error. IP limit possibly exceeded')
-            return # returns NoneType. Handle at conky()
+            print(response)
+            return # returns NoneType. Handled at conky()
 
-        return response
+        return item
 
-    def conky(self):
+    def conky(self, twenty_ids_list):
         '''
         Runs get_item_from_findItemsByCategory in multiple threads to get relevant
         data for creating training sets
@@ -206,15 +206,8 @@ class ShoppingApi:
         except (FileNotFoundError, ValueError):
             data = []
 
-        try:
-            with open('item_id_results.txt') as f: # TODO fix here
-                item_id_results = json.load(f)
-
-        except (FileNotFoundError, ValueError):
-            item_id_results = scrape_ids.main()# TODO fix here
-
         with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor() as executor:
-            for future in executor.map(self.get_item_from_findItemsByCategory, item_id_results):
+            for future in executor.map(self.get_item_from_findItemsByCategory, twenty_ids_list):
                 if future is not None:
                     for item in future:
                         data.append(item) # The end result should be a list of dicts where each dict in the list is a listing