--- a/query.py	Tue Apr 24 13:29:16 2018 -0400
+++ b/query.py	Fri Jan 18 10:12:19 2019 -0500
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
     # create a session
     session = requests.Session();
     # make a synchronous post request to the query route
-    QUERY_URL.replace("<tree_id>", str(options.treeid));
     req = session.post(QUERY_URL.replace("<tree_id>", str(options.treeid)), headers=headers, json=payload);
     resp_code = req.status_code;
     #print(str(req.content)+"\n\n");
@@ -193,7 +192,7 @@
                     action="store", dest="search", help="search mode");
     parser.add_option("-e", "--exact", type="int", default=0,
                     action="store", dest="exact", help="exact algorithm (required if search is 1 only)");
-    parser.add_option("-k", "--tree", type="int", default=0,
+    parser.add_option("-k", "--tree", type="string", default=0,
                     action="store", dest="treeid", help="the id of the tree that will be queried");
     parser.add_option("-t", "--sthreshold", type="float",
                     action="store", dest="sthreshold", help="threshold applied to the search algrithm");