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 PostgreSQL storage persists in a docker volume.  The PostgreSQL server can be found at <DOCKER_IP_HOST_HERE>:5432
 
 ## History
-Iris is almost entirely forked from an abondoned project Manoj Saha (https://github.com/manojps/google-play-apps-crawler-scrapy) -- so credit goes to him for most of this.  My intentions are do dockerize both it and the postgresql storage into one easy to run application.
+Iris is almost entirely forked from an abandoned project Manoj Saha (https://github.com/manojps/google-play-apps-crawler-scrapy) -- so credit goes to him for most of this.  My intentions are do dockerize both it and the postgresql storage into one easy to run application.
 
 docker build . -t behren/gplaycrawler && docker push behren/gplaycrawler
-docker-compose up --scale gplay-crawler=2
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+docker-compose up --scale gplay-crawler=2