diff --git a/cadump/cadump.py b/cadump/cadump.py
index c2e0ad9..ab6df18 100644
--- a/cadump/cadump.py
+++ b/cadump/cadump.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger("logger");
 # }
 
 channel_list = ["S10-CPCL-VM1MGC:LOAD"]  # specified channel is only for test purposes
+base_url = ""
 
 
 @route('/notify', method='PUT')
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ def download_data(config):
     new_filename = filename[:-3]+"_CA"+filename[-3:]
 
     logger.info("Retrieving data for interval start: " + str(start_date) + " end: " + str(end_date))
-    data = data_api.get_data(channel_list, start=start_date, end= end_date)
+    data = data_api.get_data(channel_list, start=start_date, end= end_date, base_url=base_url)
     logger.info("Persist data to hdf5 file")
     data_api.to_hdf5(data, new_filename, overwrite=True, compression=None, shuffle=False)
 
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ def main():
     import argparse
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Channel Access archiver dump to hdf5')
     parser.add_argument('--channels', dest='channel_list', default="tests/channels.txt", help='channels to dump')
+    parser.add_argument('--url', dest='url', default=None, help='base url to retrieve data from')
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
     print(args.channel_list)
@@ -81,6 +83,10 @@ def main():
     channel_list = read_channels(args.channel_list)
     logger.info("Using channel list: " + " ".join(channel_list))
 
+    global base_url
+    base_url = args.url
+    logger.info("Using base url: " + str(base_url))
+
     run(host='localhost', port=10200)
 
 
diff --git a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
index 3f7f405..0116fa9 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package:
   name: cadump
-  version: 0.0.2
+  version: 0.0.3
 
 source:
     path: ..
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 800aafc..bbfffe3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(
     name="cadump",
-    version="0.0.2",
+    version="0.0.3",
     author="Paul Scherrer Institute",
     author_email="daq@psi.ch",
     description="Interface to dump data from archiver/databuffer",