diff --git a/scripts/misc/export-uris-from-json.sh b/scripts/misc/export-uris-from-json.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..15683c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/misc/export-uris-from-json.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+############################################################################
+##
+## This script exports URIs from a saved JSON stream. It uses the same logic
+## as stream-url.sh, except that it reads the JSON from a file.
+## It takes one argument, the input file name.
+##
+############################################################################
+
+source=$1
+
+cat "$source"|grep -A 1 "event: update"|grep "data:" | \
+while read -r line
+do
+    if [[ $line == *"uri"* ]]
+    then
+        uri=`echo $line | sed 's/data: //g' | jq .uri| sed 's/\"//g'`
+        echo "$uri"
+    fi
+done
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/misc/fireehose-from-json.sh b/scripts/misc/fireehose-from-json.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5ac1dd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/misc/fireehose-from-json.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+############################################################################
+##
+## This script sends URIs to fakerelay based on a saved JSON stream.
+## It takes one argument, the input file name.
+##
+############################################################################
+
+## Look for environmental variables. Because this script may be run outside of docker
+## there is a good change that they are not set, if they are not, attempt to set them
+## via the .env.production file. If that fails warn and keep going
+if [[ ! $loadEnv && -f  ../../.env.production ]]
+then
+    echo "[INFO] Did not detect that environmental variables are set, attempting to set via ../../.env.production"
+    source ../../.env.production
+fi
+
+if [[ ! $loadEnv  ]]
+then
+    echo "[WARN] Cannot find environemtnal variables, expect things to break ahead"
+    sleep 5s
+fi
+
+today=`date +"%Y%m%d"`
+
+## The source file we are reading from
+source=$1
+
+while true
+do
+
+    if [[ -f "./maxcurls" ]]
+    then
+        maxCurls=`cat ./maxcurls`
+    fi
+
+
+    ## Here we take the top 500 lines of the file -- so we are in FIFO 
+    ## and pipe them thru uniq so we only pass unique URIs through to the fake relay
+    ## This step easily cuts the total number of URIs in half and is the only way we can keep up
+
+    ## Make sure that you have the name number in the following two lines. In this repo, it is currently at 500
+    seed=`date +%Y%M%d%H%M%S%N`
+    backfillFile="backfilluris.$seed.txt"
+    sedExpression="1,${minURIs}d"
+    sed -i $sedExpression "$source"
+    head "$source" -n $minURIs | sort | uniq -u > "$backfillFile"
+
+    ## Start looping through the unique URIs
+    cat "$backfillFile" | \
+    while read -r line
+    do
+        if [[ "$line" != "" ]]
+        then
+
+            uri=`echo $line | sed 's/data: //g' | jq .uri| sed 's/\"//g'`
+            echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE: Posting $uri"
+
+            ## Send it to the fake relay as a background job
+            curl -X "POST" "$fakeRelayHost" \
+                -H "Authorization: Bearer $fakeRelayKey" \
+                -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8' \
+                --data-urlencode "statusUrl=$uri" \
+                --no-progress-meter &
+
+            ## Don't overload the system on open curls. Wait until they are below a certain amount to move on
+            ## Or have some fun, set this as high as you like and turn your computer into a space heater!
+            curls=`ps -ef|grep curl|wc -l`
+            until [ $curls -lt $maxCurls ]
+            do
+                curls=`ps -ef|grep curl|wc -l`
+                echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE: Waiting for existing curls to finish, at $curls"
+                linesLeft=`cat "$source"|wc -l` 
+                echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE:$linesLeft Total URIs left"
+                sleep 5s
+            done
+        fi
+
+    done
+
+    linesLeft=`cat "$source"|wc -l` 
+    echo "\n \n LINES LEFT: $linesLeft \n\n"
+    rm "$backfillFile"
+done
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/misc/firehose-from-uris.sh b/scripts/misc/firehose-from-uris.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..70cba4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/misc/firehose-from-uris.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+############################################################################
+##
+## This script sends URIs to fakerelay based on a saved file of URIS, one
+## URI per line. It takes on argument, the filename with the URIs
+##
+## The significant difference is that the JSON stream has already been processed
+## so this script can post the URIs much faster, as it doesn't have to run the
+## JSON stream through jq
+##
+############################################################################
+
+## Look for environmental variables. Because this script may be run outside of docker
+## there is a good change that they are not set, if they are not, attempt to set them
+## via the .env.production file. If that fails warn and keep going
+if [[ ! $loadEnv && -f  ../../.env.production ]]
+then
+    echo "[INFO] Did not detect that environmental variables are set, attempting to set via ../../.env.production"
+    source ../../.env.production
+fi
+
+if [[ ! $loadEnv  ]]
+then
+    echo "[WARN] Cannot find environemtnal variables, expect things to break ahead"
+    sleep 5s
+fi
+
+today=`date +"%Y%m%d"`
+
+## The source file we are reading from
+source=$1
+
+## Here we take the top $minURIs lines of the file -- so we are in FIFO 
+## and pipe them thru uniq so we only pass unique URIs through to the fake relay
+## This step easily cuts the total number of URIs in half and is the only way we can keep up
+
+seed=`date +%Y%M%d%H%M%S%N`
+backfillFile="backfilluris.$seed.txt"
+cat "$source" | sort | uniq -u > "$backfillFile"
+
+## Start looping through the unique URIs
+cat "$backfillFile" | \
+while read -r line
+do
+    if [[ "$line" != "" ]]
+    then
+
+        uri=$line
+        echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE: Posting $uri"
+        sleep 1s
+
+        ## Send it to the fake relay as a background job
+        curl -X "POST" "$fakeRelayHost" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $fakeRelayKey" \
+            -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8' \
+            --data-urlencode "statusUrl=$uri" \
+            --no-progress-meter &
+
+        ## Don't overload the system on open curls. Wait until they are below a certain amount to move on
+        ## Or have some fun, set this as high as you like and turn your computer into a space heater!
+        curls=`ps -ef|grep curl|wc -l`
+        until [ $curls -lt $maxCurls ]
+        do
+            curls=`ps -ef|grep curl|wc -l`
+            echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE: Waiting for existing curls to finish, at $curls"
+            linesLeft=`cat "$source"|wc -l` 
+            echo "[INFO] RUN-FIREHOSE:$linesLeft Total URIs left"
+            sleep 5s
+        done
+    fi
+
+done
+
+rm "$backfillFile"
\ No newline at end of file