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diff --git a/python/fatcat_export.py b/python/fatcat_export.py
index eadf69ab..60c1caf1 100755
--- a/python/fatcat_export.py
+++ b/python/fatcat_export.py
@@ -1,11 +1,18 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Note: this is *not* the tool used to generate "official" metadata dumps; that
+tool is written in rust and runs on the production infrastructure for speed.
+These scripts are just a demonstration of how the API *could* be scraped
+without permission by an third party.
+"""
+
import sys
import json
import argparse
import fatcat_client
from fatcat_client.rest import ApiException
-from fatcat_tools.fcid import uuid2fcid
+from fatcat_tools import uuid2fcid
def run_export_releases(args):
conf = fatcat_client.Configuration()