diff --git a/src/main/java/de/jeyp91/gists/GistProvider.java b/src/main/java/de/jeyp91/gists/GistProvider.java
index e9186f7..a0b9436 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/jeyp91/gists/GistProvider.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/jeyp91/gists/GistProvider.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package de.jeyp91.gists;
 
 import com.google.api.client.util.DateTime;
+import com.google.common.io.Resources;
 import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
 import org.apache.http.HttpHeaders;
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
@@ -18,16 +19,37 @@ import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 public class GistProvider {
 
     private static GistProvider prov = null;
-    private JSONArray gistList = null;
+    private JSONArray gistList;
+    private String username;
+    private String password;
 
     private GistProvider() {
         this.gistList = listAllGists();
+        readConfig();
+    }
+
+    private void readConfig() {
+        JSONParser jsonParser = new JSONParser();
+        URL url = Resources.getResource("Gist_Config.json");
+        JSONObject gistConfig;
+
+        try {
+            String jsonConfig = Resources.toString(url, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+            //Read JSON file
+            gistConfig = (JSONObject) jsonParser.parse(jsonConfig);
+            this.username = gistConfig.get("username").toString();
+            this.password = gistConfig.get("password").toString();
+
+        } catch (IOException | ParseException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
     }
 
     public static GistProvider getInstance() {
@@ -68,9 +90,7 @@ public class GistProvider {
 
     public String updateGist(String id, String file, String content) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
         String requestUrl = "https://api.github.com/gists/" + id;
-        String username = "tippligawuerzburg";
-        String password = "1154f448eae29212971cb82ca8850f54bff23629";
-        String auth = username + ":" + password;
+        String auth = this.username + ":" + this.password;
         byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.encodeBase64(
                 auth.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1));
         String authHeader = "Basic " + new String(encodedAuth);
@@ -157,9 +177,7 @@ public class GistProvider {
 
     private String getRawData(String requestUrl) {
 
-        String username = "tippligawuerzburg";
-        String password = "1154f448eae29212971cb82ca8850f54bff23629";
-        String auth = username + ":" + password;
+        String auth = this.username + ":" + this.password;
         byte[] encodedAuth = Base64.encodeBase64(
                 auth.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1));
         String authHeader = "Basic " + new String(encodedAuth);
diff --git a/src/main/resources/Gist_Config.json b/src/main/resources/Gist_Config.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9f4d963
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/Gist_Config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  "username": "tippligawuerzburg",
+  "password": "1154f448eae29212971cb82ca8850f54bff23629"
+}
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