diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c2a4bd6..740ae78 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rs-jsonpath"
-version = "1.0.0"
+version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["freestrings <freestrings@gmail.com>"]
 
 [dependencies]
@@ -12,3 +12,11 @@ indexmap = "1.0.2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 bencher = "0.1.5"
+
+[lib]
+name = "jsonpath"
+path = "src/lib.rs"
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "jsonpath"
+path = "src/bin.rs"
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diff --git a/benches/bench.rs b/benches/bench.rs
index 606e165..69538e5 100644
--- a/benches/bench.rs
+++ b/benches/bench.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #![feature(test)]
-extern crate rs_jsonpath;
+extern crate jsonpath;
 extern crate serde_json;
 extern crate test;
 
diff --git a/src/bin.rs b/src/bin.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea3850b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/bin.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+fn main() {
+}
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diff --git a/src/jsonpath/json_filter/mod.rs b/src/jsonpath/json_filter/mod.rs
index a45d964..b882466 100644
--- a/src/jsonpath/json_filter/mod.rs
+++ b/src/jsonpath/json_filter/mod.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 mod cmp;
 mod term;
-mod value_filter;
+pub mod value_filter;
 mod value_wrapper;
 
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     extern crate env_logger;
diff --git a/src/jsonpath/json_filter/value_filter.rs b/src/jsonpath/json_filter/value_filter.rs
index fb8b64e..2f7ba03 100644
--- a/src/jsonpath/json_filter/value_filter.rs
+++ b/src/jsonpath/json_filter/value_filter.rs
@@ -260,6 +260,15 @@ impl JsonValueFilter {
         })
     }
 
+    pub fn new_from_value(json: Value) -> result::Result<Self, String> {
+        Ok(JsonValueFilter {
+            json: Rc::new(Box::new(json)),
+            filter_stack: Vec::new(),
+            token_stack: Vec::new(),
+            term_stack: Vec::new(),
+        })
+    }
+
     fn is_peek_token_array(&self) -> bool {
         if let Some(ParseToken::Array) = self.token_stack.last() {
             true
@@ -309,6 +318,13 @@ impl JsonValueFilter {
         }
     }
 
+    pub fn take_value(&mut self) -> Value {
+        match self.filter_stack.last_mut() {
+            Some(v) => v.vw.get_val_mut().take(),
+            _ => Value::Null
+        }
+    }
+
     fn token_union<F: ArrayIndex>(&mut self, indices: Vec<F>) {
         self.token_stack.pop();
 
diff --git a/src/jsonpath/mod.rs b/src/jsonpath/mod.rs
index 97d5fa0..7d8f948 100644
--- a/src/jsonpath/mod.rs
+++ b/src/jsonpath/mod.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 mod path_reader;
 mod tokenizer;
-mod parser;
-mod json_filter;
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+pub mod parser;
+pub mod json_filter;
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diff --git a/src/jsonpath/parser.rs b/src/jsonpath/parser.rs
index 59a5cab..031a000 100644
--- a/src/jsonpath/parser.rs
+++ b/src/jsonpath/parser.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ mod utils {
     }
 }
 
-#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
 pub enum ParseToken {
     // '$'
     Absolute,
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ pub enum ParseToken {
     Eof,
 }
 
-#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Clone)]
 pub enum FilterToken {
     Equal,
     NotEqual,
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ pub enum FilterToken {
     Or,
 }
 
-#[derive(Debug)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct Node {
     left: Option<Box<Node>>,
     right: Option<Box<Node>>,
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
         Parser { tokenizer: PreloadedTokenizer::new(input) }
     }
 
+    pub fn compile(&mut self) -> Result<Node> {
+        Ok(self.json_path()?)
+    }
+
     pub fn parse<V: NodeVisitor>(&mut self, visitor: &mut V) -> Result<()> {
         let node = self.json_path()?;
         visitor.visit(node);
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index ff7b8c4..348441f 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -6,4 +6,35 @@ extern crate serde;
 extern crate serde_json;
 extern crate core;
 extern crate indexmap;
-pub mod jsonpath;
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+
+mod jsonpath;
+
+use jsonpath::parser::*;
+use jsonpath::json_filter::value_filter::*;
+
+use std::result;
+use serde_json::Value;
+
+type Result = result::Result<Value, String>;
+
+pub fn compile<'a>(path: &'a str) -> impl FnMut(Value) -> Result + 'a {
+    let mut parser = Parser::new(path);
+    let node = parser.compile();
+    move |json| {
+        match &node {
+            Ok(n) => {
+                let mut jf = JsonValueFilter::new_from_value(json)?;
+                jf.visit(n.clone());
+                Ok(jf.take_value())
+            },
+            Err(e) => Err(e.clone())
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn filter(json: Value, path: &str) -> Result {
+    let mut jf = JsonValueFilter::new_from_value(json)?;
+    let mut parser = Parser::new(path);
+    parser.parse(&mut jf)?;
+    Ok(jf.take_value())
+}
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