diff --git a/homegrown/email/Cargo.toml b/homegrown/email/Cargo.toml
index b373d29..f1770d8 100644
--- a/homegrown/email/Cargo.toml
+++ b/homegrown/email/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json"] }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
 lettre = "0.11"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_yaml_ng = "0.9"
 serde_json = "1"
 google-youtube3 = "*"
 
diff --git a/homegrown/email/readme.md b/homegrown/email/readme.md
index 619440d..80bb5f3 100644
--- a/homegrown/email/readme.md
+++ b/homegrown/email/readme.md
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@
 sends me an email every monday with all the new videos from channels i like on youtbue
 
 # status
-man, idk why but the request for my raw content just gives {} rn. i'm too tired to figure it out, it's for tomorrow
+can read the json, now to actually implement the youtube api calls. 
+Prolly just gonna call the api directly with reqwest.
+add <option> datafields in the struct. cleanup the "listje" 
diff --git a/homegrown/email/src/main.rs b/homegrown/email/src/main.rs
index 9b75bbd..088aecc 100644
--- a/homegrown/email/src/main.rs
+++ b/homegrown/email/src/main.rs
@@ -1,14 +1,11 @@
 use serde::Deserialize; 
-#[derive(Deserialize)]
-struct listje {
-    items: Vec<Channel>,
-}
 
 #[derive(Deserialize)]
 struct Channel {
     id: String,
     name: String,
     kind: String
+    channel
 }
 
 #[tokio::main]
@@ -25,5 +22,8 @@ async fn main() {
 //        Err(error) => println!("NOPE"),
 //    };                                          //
     let channels =serde_json::from_str::<Vec<Channel>>(&resp).unwrap();
+    for i in channels {
+        println!{"{:#?}", i.name};
+    }
 
 }
diff --git a/static/yters.json b/static/yters.json
index ea6ac4b..3805fa4 100644
--- a/static/yters.json
+++ b/static/yters.json
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [
-{ "name":"squibquib", 
+{ 
+  "name":"squibquib", 
   "id": "UC-9-sjOyxoDCdQlVzObzGsw", 
   "kind": "letsplay"
 },