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Click **Save** and Netlify will start building your comment threads\n\n### Setting up the API\n\nYou'll need to run the API on a server. On the server, we recommend settings these environment variables:\n\n```bash\nGOTELL_SITE_URL=https://mysite.example.com # URL to your static site\nGOTELL_REPOSITORY=user/repo # Username/repo of the GitHub repository created from netliy-comments-starter\nGOTELL_ACCESS_TOKEN=1253523421313 # A Personal GitHub Access Token with write permissions to the repository\n```\n\nWith these environment variables in place, run:\n\n```bash\ngotell api\n```\n\n### Integrating with your site\n\nEach post on your static site that should have comments, needs to add a metadata tag to it's page like this:\n\n```html\n\u003cscript id=\"gotell\" type=\"application/json\"\u003e{\"created_at\":\"2016-07-07T08:20:36Z\"}\u003c/script\u003e\n```\n\nTo configure GoTell add a file called `/gotell/settings.json` to your site (this is optional). It should look like this:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"banned_ips\": [],\n\t\"banned_keywords\": [],\n\t\"banned_emails\": [],\n\t\"timelimit\": 604800\n}\n```\n\nThese settings controls the rudimentary spam filter and the time limit from a post is created and until\ncommenting is closed for the thread.\n\nTo allow people to comment you'll need your comment form to send a request to the comment API. 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