diff --git a/websucker/cli.py b/websucker/cli.py
index ce63fa1..862cd66 100644
--- a/websucker/cli.py
+++ b/websucker/cli.py
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ from websucker.agent import Connection,visit_links,visit_domain
 from websucker.agent import ParsedDocument
 from websucker.parser import BaseParser
 from websucker.parser import normalize_link,urlunparse
+from websucker.parser import load_parser
 from websucker.db import Data
 from websucker.db import get_schema
 import click
 import pprint
 
 
-
 def create_database_from_context(ctx):
     return Data(ctx.obj["cassandra_keyspace"],ctx.obj["cassandra_host"],ctx.obj["cassandra_port"])
 
@@ -17,13 +17,16 @@ def create_database_from_context(ctx):
 @click.option("--cassandra-keyspace",metavar="CASSANDRA_KEYSPACE",help="cassandra keyspace (if defined, value read from CASSANDRA_KEYSPACE env variable)",envvar="CASSANDRA_KEYSPACE",default="websucker",show_default=True)
 @click.option("--cassandra-host",metavar="CASSANDRA_HOST",help="cassandra host (if defined, value read from CASSANDRA_HOST env variable)",envvar="CASSANDRA_HOST",default="127.0.0.1",show_default=True)
 @click.option("--cassandra-port",metavar="CASSANDRA_PORT",help="cassandra port (if defined, value read from CASSANDRA_PORT env variable)",envvar="CASSANDRA_PORT",default=9042,show_default=True)
-
 @click.option("--justext-language",metavar="JUSTEXT_LANGUAGE",help="Target language (if defined, value read from JUSTEXT_LANGUAGE env variable)",envvar="JUSTEXT_LANGUAGE",default="English",show_default=True)
+@click.option("--parser",metavar="file_name",help="zzz")
 @click.option("--visit",is_flag=True)
-def cli(ctx,cassandra_keyspace,cassandra_host,cassandra_port,justext_language,visit):
+def cli(ctx,cassandra_keyspace,cassandra_host,cassandra_port,justext_language,parser,visit):
     ctx.ensure_object(dict)
     p = BaseParser()
     p.justext_language = justext_language
+    if parser is not None:
+        p = load_parser(parser)
+        assert p is not None
     ctx.obj["parser"] = p
     ctx.obj["cassandra_host"] = cassandra_host
     ctx.obj["cassandra_port"] = cassandra_port
diff --git a/websucker/parser.py b/websucker/parser.py
index 86bb9f7..05b6428 100644
--- a/websucker/parser.py
+++ b/websucker/parser.py
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ import lxml.etree
 import urllib.parse
 import os.path
 
+import importlib
+import sys
+import os
+import inspect
+
 
 datere = re.compile("\d{1,2}\.\s*\d{1,2}\.\s*[12]\d{3}")
 yearre = re.compile(r"\s\d{4}\s")
@@ -333,3 +338,40 @@ class EnglishParser(BaseParser):
         self.justext_language = "English"
         self.allowdomains = set(["com","org","io"])
 
+# https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/blob/master/scrapy/commands/runspider.py
+def _import_file(filepath):
+    abspath = os.path.abspath(filepath)
+    dirname, file = os.path.split(abspath)
+    fname, fext = os.path.splitext(file)
+    if fext != '.py':
+        raise ValueError("Not a Python source file: %s" % abspath)
+    if dirname:
+        sys.path = [dirname] + sys.path
+    try:
+        module = importlib.import_module(fname)
+    finally:
+        if dirname:
+            sys.path.pop(0)
+    return module
+
+def iter_parser(module):
+    """Return an iterator over all spider classes defined in the given module
+    that can be instantiated (i.e. which have name)
+    """
+    # this needs to be imported here until get rid of the spider manager
+    # singleton in scrapy.spider.spiders
+    for obj in vars(module).values():
+
+        if inspect.isclass(obj) and \
+           obj.__module__ == module.__name__ and \
+           issubclass(obj, BaseParser):
+           yield obj
+
+def load_parser(file_name):
+    pmodule = _import_file(file_name)
+    parsers = [m for m in iter_parser(pmodule)]
+    p = None
+    if len(parsers)> 0:
+        pc = parsers[-1]
+        p = pc()
+    return p