diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0fc20fcb..e9f34867 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1103,6 +1103,7 @@ name = "examples"
 version = "0.0.0"
 dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
+ "spider",
  "swiftide",
  "tokio",
  "tracing-subscriber",
diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
index 17d902cf..6fe1251a 100644
--- a/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ edition = "2021"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
-swiftide = { path = "../swiftide/", features = ["all"] }
+swiftide = { path = "../swiftide/", features = ["all", "scraping"] }
 tracing-subscriber = "0.3"
 serde_json = "1.0"
+spider = "1.98"
 
 [[example]]
 name = "ingest-codebase"
@@ -25,3 +26,7 @@ path = "ingest_into_redis.rs"
 [[example]]
 name = "ingest-markdown-metadata"
 path = "ingest_markdown_lots_of_metadata.rs"
+
+[[example]]
+name = "scraping-ingest"
+path = "scraping_ingest_to_markdown.rs"
diff --git a/swiftide/src/integrations/scraping/loader.rs b/swiftide/src/integrations/scraping/loader.rs
index 6b837981..bc30cf49 100644
--- a/swiftide/src/integrations/scraping/loader.rs
+++ b/swiftide/src/integrations/scraping/loader.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use derive_builder::Builder;
 use spider::website::Website;
-use tokio::sync::RwLock;
+use tokio::{runtime::Handle, sync::RwLock};
 
 use crate::{
     ingestion::{IngestionNode, IngestionStream},
@@ -18,8 +18,12 @@ pub struct ScrapingLoader {
 }
 
 impl ScrapingLoader {
+    pub fn builder() -> ScrapingLoaderBuilder {
+        ScrapingLoaderBuilder::default()
+    }
+
     // Constructs a scrapingloader from a `spider::Website` configuration
-    #![allow(dead_code)]
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
     pub fn from_spider(spider_website: Website) -> Self {
         Self {
             spider_website: RwLock::new(spider_website),
@@ -35,13 +39,17 @@ impl ScrapingLoader {
 impl Loader for ScrapingLoader {
     fn into_stream(self) -> IngestionStream {
         let (tx, rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
-        let mut spider_rx = self
-            .spider_website
-            .blocking_write()
-            .subscribe(0)
-            .expect("Failed to subscribe to spider");
+        let mut spider_rx = tokio::task::block_in_place(|| {
+            Handle::current().block_on(async {
+                self.spider_website
+                    .write()
+                    .await
+                    .subscribe(0)
+                    .expect("Failed to subscribe to spider")
+            })
+        });
 
-        let _recv_thread = std::thread::spawn(|| async move {
+        let _recv_thread = tokio::spawn(async move {
             while let Ok(res) = spider_rx.recv().await {
                 let node = IngestionNode {
                     chunk: res.get_html(),
@@ -56,7 +64,7 @@ impl Loader for ScrapingLoader {
             }
         });
 
-        let _scrape_thread = std::thread::spawn(|| async move {
+        let _scrape_thread = tokio::spawn(async move {
             let mut spider_website = self.spider_website.write().await;
             spider_website.scrape().await;
         });
diff --git a/swiftide/src/integrations/scraping/mod.rs b/swiftide/src/integrations/scraping/mod.rs
index c0c23ab3..03e4aa7e 100644
--- a/swiftide/src/integrations/scraping/mod.rs
+++ b/swiftide/src/integrations/scraping/mod.rs
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 mod html_to_markdown_transformer;
 mod loader;
+
+pub use html_to_markdown_transformer::HtmlToMarkdownTransformer;
+pub use loader::ScrapingLoader;
diff --git a/swiftide/src/lib.rs b/swiftide/src/lib.rs
index cf728364..1e726f51 100644
--- a/swiftide/src/lib.rs
+++ b/swiftide/src/lib.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 pub mod ingestion;
 pub mod integrations;
 pub mod loaders;
+pub mod persist;
 pub mod traits;
 pub mod transformers;
 pub mod type_aliases;
diff --git a/swiftide/src/persist/memory_storage.rs b/swiftide/src/persist/memory_storage.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..55277d96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swiftide/src/persist/memory_storage.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
+use anyhow::Result;
+use async_trait::async_trait;
+use derive_builder::Builder;
+use tokio::sync::RwLock;
+
+use crate::{
+    ingestion::{IngestionNode, IngestionStream},
+    Persist,
+};
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Builder)]
+#[builder(pattern = "owned")]
+/// A simple in-memory storage implementation.
+///
+/// Great for experimentation and testing.
+pub struct MemoryStorage {
+    data: RwLock<HashMap<String, IngestionNode>>,
+    #[builder(default)]
+    batch_size: Option<usize>,
+}
+
+impl MemoryStorage {
+    fn key(&self, node: &IngestionNode) -> String {
+        node.path.clone().to_string_lossy().to_string()
+    }
+
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    async fn get(&self, key: &str) -> Option<IngestionNode> {
+        self.data.read().await.get(key).cloned()
+    }
+}
+
+#[async_trait]
+impl Persist for MemoryStorage {
+    async fn setup(&self) -> Result<()> {
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    async fn store(&self, node: IngestionNode) -> Result<IngestionNode> {
+        self.data
+            .write()
+            .await
+            .insert(self.key(&node), node.clone());
+        Ok(node)
+    }
+
+    async fn batch_store(&self, nodes: Vec<IngestionNode>) -> IngestionStream {
+        let mut lock = self.data.write().await;
+        for node in &nodes {
+            lock.insert(self.key(node), node.clone());
+        }
+        IngestionStream::iter(nodes.into_iter().map(Ok))
+    }
+
+    fn batch_size(&self) -> Option<usize> {
+        self.batch_size
+    }
+}
diff --git a/swiftide/src/persist/mod.rs b/swiftide/src/persist/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..73ead84a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/swiftide/src/persist/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+mod memory_storage;
+pub use memory_storage::MemoryStorage;