diff --git a/createDiffHTML.py b/createDiffHTML.py
index 2ae417a..cf5ecbb 100755
--- a/createDiffHTML.py
+++ b/createDiffHTML.py
@@ -10,17 +10,11 @@ p.add_argument("padid")
 p.add_argument("--startrev", type=int, default=0, help="starting revision")
 p.add_argument("--endrev", type=int, default=None, help="ending revision, default: last")
 p.add_argument("--padinfo", default="padinfo.json", help="padinfo, default: padinfo.json")
-p.add_argument("--protocol", default="http")
 p.add_argument("--showurl", default=False, action="store_true")
 args = p.parse_args()
 
 with open(args.padinfo) as f:
 	info = json.load(f)
-if "protocol" not in info:
-	info['protocol'] = args.protocol
-if "port" not in info:
-	info['port'] = 9001
-
 apiurl =  "{0[protocol]}://{0[hostname]}:{0[port]}{0[apiurl]}{0[apiversion]}/".format(info)
 data = {}
 data['apikey'] = info['apikey']
diff --git a/listAllPads.py b/listAllPads.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5fbfe36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/listAllPads.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+import json
+from urllib import urlencode
+from urllib2 import urlopen, HTTPError, URLError
+
+p = ArgumentParser("")
+p.add_argument("--padinfo", default="padinfo.json", help="padinfo, default: padinfo.json")
+p.add_argument("--showurl", default=False, action="store_true")
+args = p.parse_args()
+
+with open(args.padinfo) as f:
+	info = json.load(f)
+apiurl =  "{0[protocol]}://{0[hostname]}:{0[port]}{0[apiurl]}{0[apiversion]}/".format(info)
+data = {}
+data['apikey'] = info['apikey']
+requesturl = apiurl+'listAllPads?'+urlencode(data)
+if args.showurl:
+	print requesturl
+else:
+	print json.dumps(json.load(urlopen(requesturl))['data']['padIDs'])
+
diff --git a/padinfo.sample.json b/padinfo.sample.json
index a6f17b4..bfa3bbd 100644
--- a/padinfo.sample.json
+++ b/padinfo.sample.json
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
+	"protocol": "http",
     "hostname": "localhost",
     "port": 9001,
     "apiurl": "/api/",