diff --git a/generateRepoList.sh b/generateRepoList.sh
index cd08bc0..5977141 100755
--- a/generateRepoList.sh
+++ b/generateRepoList.sh
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ pageCounter=1
 timestamp=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
 empty="false"
 echo "" > allp.json
+
+#query all the pages until an empty result is returned
 while [ $empty = "false" ]
 do
   page=$(curl -X GET "https://code-repo.d4science.org/api/v1/orgs/${organization}/repos?page=${pageCounter}&limit=100000" -H "accept: application/json")
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@ do
   fi
 done
 
+#generate a file with one repo name for each line
 grep "\"name\": " allp.json > all_filtered.json
 sed "s/^[ \t]*\"name\": \"//g" all_filtered.json > all_filtered1.txt
 sed 's/\",//g' all_filtered1.txt > all_filtered2.txt