diff --git a/.github/workflows/announcements.yml b/.github/workflows/announcements.yml
index 6e6d49c6..acb62d09 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/announcements.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/announcements.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Update Announcements
     if: |
       !github.event.issue.pull_request &&
-      github.event.issue.number == 181 &&
+      github.event.issue.number == 469 &&
       (github.event.comment.author_association == 'OWNER' ||
       github.event.comment.author_association == 'MEMBER' ||
       github.event.comment.author_association == 'CONTRIBUTOR' ||
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install -r .github/python_requirements.txt
       - name: Run update_announcements script
         run: |
-          python update_announcements.py
+          python src/scripts/update_announcements.py
       - name: Create Pull Request
         uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v4
         with:
diff --git a/github/workflows/announcements.yml b/github/workflows/announcements.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0519ecba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/github/workflows/announcements.yml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ 
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diff --git a/src/scripts/update_announcements.py b/src/scripts/update_announcements.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7c8c3f77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/scripts/update_announcements.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# Initial function:
+# Inputs: Github API credentials (not using for now)
+# call the github API to get all the comments for a certain issue on the hoth github
+# format the data into a json containing the data that we want
+# inject the json into a json file
+
+import requests
+import json
+import sys
+import os
+
+# User whitelist and issue number we are looking for
+user_whitelist = ['jamesmwu', 'danielhzhou']
+# HOTH repository issues accessed via Github API
+repo_issues = "https://api.github.com/repos/uclaacm/hoth.uclaacm.com/issues"
+
+issue_num = '469'
+
+url = repo_issues + '/' + issue_num + '/' + 'comments'
+
+# Get given issue
+try:
+    announcements = requests.get(url)
+except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
+    raise SystemExit(e)
+print("Request completed with status code: ", announcements.status_code)
+
+# Decode json to Python dictionary for parsing
+try:
+    announcements_json = announcements.json()
+except requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError as e:
+    raise SystemExit(e)
+valid_comments = []
+
+# Keep track of every comment from valid usernames
+for index, element in enumerate(announcements_json):
+    if element['user']['login'] in user_whitelist:
+        body = element['body']
+        # If there is no partition, subject will contain the entire string
+        subject, partition, comment = body.partition('(Subject)')
+        comment = {'id': index, 'subject': subject.strip(), 'body': comment.strip(), 'timestamp': element['created_at']}
+        valid_comments.append(comment)
+
+# Insert all valid comment json objects into a file in reverse order
+filename = 'src/data/announcements.json'
+json_string = json.dumps(valid_comments[::-1], indent=4)
+try:
+    with open(filename, 'w') as f:
+        f.write(json_string)
+except EnvironmentError:
+    print("Error opening/writing to file. ")
+
+print("Finished.")
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