diff --git a/crawler.js b/crawler.js
index 8e6319da..e3ed70af 100644
--- a/crawler.js
+++ b/crawler.js
@@ -107,14 +107,20 @@ class Crawler {
   }
 
   bootstrap() {
-    const opts = {stdio: "ignore", cwd: this.params.cwd};
+    let opts = {}
+    if (this.params.pywb_log) {
+      opts = {stdio: "inherit", cwd: this.params.cwd};
+    }
+    else{
+      opts = {stdio: "ignore", cwd: this.params.cwd};
+    }
 
     this.configureUA();
 
     this.headers = {"User-Agent": this.userAgent};
 
     child_process.spawn("redis-server", {...opts, cwd: "/tmp/"});
-
+    
     child_process.spawnSync("wb-manager", ["init", this.params.collection], opts);
 
     opts.env = {...process.env, COLL: this.params.collection};
@@ -222,6 +228,12 @@ class Crawler {
         default: false,
       },
       
+      "pywb-log": {
+        describe: "If set, generate pywb log file",
+         type: "boolean",
+        default: false,
+      },
+      
       "text": {
         describe: "If set, extract text to the pages.jsonl file",
         type: "boolean",
@@ -420,7 +432,7 @@ class Crawler {
       if (this.params.text){
         const client = await page.target().createCDPSession();
         const result = await client.send("DOM.getDocument", {"depth": -1, "pierce": true});
-        text = await new TextExtract(result).parseTextFromDom()
+        text = await new TextExtract(result).parseTextFromDom();
       }
     
       this.writePage(data.url, title, this.params.text, text);
@@ -717,4 +729,3 @@ class Crawler {
 }
 
 module.exports.Crawler = Crawler;
-