diff --git a/toki/toki_common b/toki/toki_common
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4040cb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toki/toki_common
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# this could potentially leave a user with two jasima.json files post config
+# change but that's fine
+if test -z "$JASIMA"
+	then test -n "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" \
+		&& JASIMA="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"/tokipona/jasima.json \
+		|| JASIMA="$HOME"/.tokipona/jasima.json
+fi
+
+test -n "$JASIMA_URL" \
+	|| JASIMA_URL=https://linku.la/jasima/data.json
diff --git a/toki/toki_lipunimi b/toki/toki_lipunimi
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5740209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toki/toki_lipunimi
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+test -e toki_common \
+	&& . ./toki_common \
+	|| . toki_common
+
+test -n "$2" \
+	&& printf 'Usage: %s (lipu)\n' >&2 \
+	&& exit 64 \
+	|| true # syexits(3) EX_USAGE
+
+test -n "$1" \
+	&& JASIMA="$1"
+
+dd <"$JASIMA" 2>/dev/null
diff --git a/toki/toki_update b/toki/toki_update
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..94a8615
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toki/toki_update
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+test -e toki_common \
+	&& . ./toki_common \
+	|| . toki_common
+
+test -n "$2" \
+	&& printf 'Usage: %s (lipu nimi)\n' >&2 \
+	&& exit 64 \
+	|| true # syexits(3) EX_USAGE
+
+test -n "$1" \
+	&& JASIMA_URL="$1"
+
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$JASIMA")"
+
+curl "$JASIMA_URL" -o "$JASIMA"