diff --git a/backend/src/events/process.py b/backend/src/events/process.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c957b03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/events/process.py
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from src.events.generate_events import CategoryAnalysis
+from src.events.models import Analysis, Article, Category, Event
+from src.common.database import engine
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+from functools import cache
+
+
+class EventLLM(BaseModel):
+    """This is EventPublic from generate_events.py without the id field minus date plus rating"""
+
+    title: str
+    description: str
+    analysis_list: list[CategoryAnalysis]
+    duplicate: bool
+    is_singapore: bool
+    original_article_id: int
+    # categories: list[str] --> derived from analysis list, not needed
+    rating: int
+
+
+@cache
+def get_categories():
+    with Session(engine) as session:
+        categories = session.scalars(select(Category))
+        if not categories:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "You don't have any categories in your db. Type `uv run src/scripts/seed.py`"
+            )
+        return {category.name: category.id for category in categories}
+
+
+def add_event_to_db(event: EventLLM) -> bool:
+    """Returns whether adding the event was successful.
+    Can fail if category does not exist/article is invalid."""
+    categories = get_categories()
+
+    with Session(engine) as session:
+        try:
+            article = session.get(Article, event.original_article_id)
+            if not article:
+                print(f"article {event.original_article_id} does not exist")
+                raise ValueError()
+
+            eventORM = Event(
+                title=event.title,
+                description=event.description,
+                duplicate=False,
+                date=article.date,
+                is_singapore=event.is_singapore,
+                original_article_id=event.original_article_id,
+                rating=event.rating,
+            )
+
+            for analysis in event.analysis_list:
+                category = analysis.category
+                content = analysis.analysis
+
+                # noticed a mismatch between seed and llm prompt
+                if category == "Economic":
+                    category = "Economics"
+
+                analysisORM = Analysis(
+                    category_id=categories[category], content=content
+                )
+
+                eventORM.analysises.append(analysisORM)
+
+            session.add(eventORM)
+            session.commit()
+
+        except Exception as e:  # noqa: E722
+            print("something went wrong:", event)
+            print(e)
+            return False
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # example usage
+    add_event_to_db(
+        EventLLM(
+            title="test",
+            description="test",
+            analysis_list=[
+                CategoryAnalysis(analysis="a", category="Science & Tech"),
+                CategoryAnalysis(analysis="b", category="Media"),
+            ],
+            duplicate=False,
+            rating=5,
+            original_article_id=14,
+            is_singapore=False,
+        )
+    )
diff --git a/backend/src/scrapers/guardian/scrape.py b/backend/src/scrapers/guardian/scrape.py
index 4b735820..007be6ba 100644
--- a/backend/src/scrapers/guardian/scrape.py
+++ b/backend/src/scrapers/guardian/scrape.py
@@ -25,17 +25,20 @@ def query_page(page: int):
     return data["results"]
 
 
-parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", help="output file path")
-parser.add_argument("-s", "--start", type=int, help="start index of page", default=0)
-parser.add_argument("-n", "--number", type=int, help="number of pages", default=50)
-args = parser.parse_args()
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", help="output file path")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-s", "--start", type=int, help="start index of page", default=0
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("-n", "--number", type=int, help="number of pages", default=50)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
 
-result = []
-for i in range(args.start, args.start + args.number):
-    result += query_page(i)
-    print("scraped:", i)
-    time.sleep(1)
+    result = []
+    for i in range(args.start, args.start + args.number):
+        result += query_page(i)
+        print("scraped:", i)
+        time.sleep(1)
 
-with open(args.output, "w") as f:
-    json.dump(result, f)
+    with open(args.output, "w") as f:
+        json.dump(result, f)
diff --git a/backend/src/scripts/seed.py b/backend/src/scripts/seed.py
index 387b6da2..ee76df83 100644
--- a/backend/src/scripts/seed.py
+++ b/backend/src/scripts/seed.py
@@ -97,4 +97,4 @@ def test_associations():
         # session.delete(original_article)
 
 
-test_associations()
+# test_associations()