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+# Schwift
+
+this is a Go client library for [OpenStack Swift](https://github.com/openstack/swift). I made this after growing
+frustrated with the bad API design of [`ncw/swift`](https://github.com/ncw/swift).
+
+<p style="color:red;font-weight:bold">WARNING: This is in a pre-alpha stage and neither complete nor tested.</p>
+
+## Installation
+
+You can get this with `go get github.com/majewsky/schwift`. When using this in an application, vendoring is recommended.
+
+## Usage
+
+This library uses [Gophercloud](https://github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud) to handle authentication, so to use Schwift, you have to first build a `gophercloud.ServiceClient` and then pass that to `schwift.Account()` to get a handle on the Swift account.
+
+For example, to connect to Swift using OpenStack Keystone authentication:
+
+```go
+import (
+  "log"
+
+  "github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud"
+  "github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack"
+  "github.com/majewsky/schwift"
+)
+
+authOptions, err := openstack.AuthOptionsFromEnv()
+handle(err)
+provider, err := openstack.AuthenticatedClient(authOptions)
+handle(err)
+client, err := openstack.NewObjectStorageV1(provider, gophercloud.EndpointOpts {})
+handle(err)
+
+account, err := schwift.AccountFromClient(client)
+handle(err)
+```
+
+To connect to Swift using Swift's built-in authentication:
+
+```go
+import (
+  "log"
+
+  "github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud"
+  "github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack"
+  "github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud/openstack/objectstore/v1/swauth"
+  "github.com/majewsky/schwift"
+)
+
+provider, err := openstack.NewClient("http://swift.example.com:8080")
+handle(err)
+client, err := swauth.NewObjectStorageV1(provider, swauth.AuthOpts {
+    User: "project:user",
+    Key:  "password",
+})
+handle(err)
+
+account, err := schwift.AccountFromClient(client)
+handle(err)
+```
+
+From this point, follow the [API documentation](https://godoc.org/github.com/majewsky/schwift) for what you can do with
+the `schwift.Account` object.