diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ff1df78..de5c821 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b6.dev84',
+        version='1.1b6.dev85',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',
diff --git a/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.py b/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7e073aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.py
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+'''
+vagrant-brozzler-new-site.py - runs brozzler-new-site inside the vagrant vm to
+queue a site for your vagrant brozzler deployment.
+
+Fills in the --proxy option automatically. some other options are passed
+through.
+
+This is a standalone script with no dependencies other than python, and should
+work with python 2.7 or python 3.2+. The only reason it's not a bash script is
+so we can use the argparse library.
+
+Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Internet Archive
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+'''
+
+import sys
+import os
+import argparse
+import subprocess
+try:
+    from shlex import quote
+except:
+    from pipes import quote
+
+def main(argv=[]):
+    arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog=os.path.basename(argv[0]))
+    arg_parser.add_argument('seed', metavar='SEED', help='seed url')
+    arg_parser.add_argument(
+            '--time-limit', dest='time_limit', default=None,
+            help='time limit in seconds for this site')
+    arg_parser.add_argument(
+            '--ignore-robots', dest='ignore_robots', action='store_true',
+            help='ignore robots.txt for this site')
+    arg_parser.add_argument(
+            '--warcprox-meta', dest='warcprox_meta',
+            help=(
+                'Warcprox-Meta http request header to send with each request; '
+                'must be a json blob, ignored unless warcprox features are '
+                'enabled'))
+    arg_parser.add_argument(
+            '-q', '--quiet', dest='quiet', action='store_true')
+    arg_parser.add_argument(
+            '-v', '--verbose', dest='verbose', action='store_true')
+
+    args = arg_parser.parse_args(args=argv[1:])
+
+    options = []
+    if args.time_limit:
+        options.append('--time-limit=%s' % args.time_limit)
+    if args.ignore_robots:
+        options.append('--ignore-robots')
+    if args.warcprox_meta:
+        # I think this shell escaping is correct?
+        options.append(
+                '--warcprox-meta=%s' % quote(args.warcprox_meta))
+    if args.quiet:
+        options.append('--quiet')
+    if args.verbose:
+        options.append('--verbose')
+
+    # cd to path with Vagrantfile so "vagrant ssh" knows what to do
+    os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+
+    cmd = (
+        'PYTHONPATH=/home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34/lib/python3.4/site-packages '
+        '/home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34/bin/python '
+        '/home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34/bin/brozzler-new-site '
+        '--proxy=localhost:8000 --enable-warcprox-features %s %s') % (
+                ' '.join(options), args.seed)
+    subprocess.call(['vagrant', 'ssh', '--', cmd])
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main(sys.argv)
+
diff --git a/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.sh b/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index bf45648..0000000
--- a/vagrant/vagrant-brozzler-new-site.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# vagrant-brozzler-new-site.sh - run brozzler-new-site inside the vagrant vm to
-# queue a job for your vagrant brozzler deployment
-#
-
-# cd to path with Vagrantfile so "vagrant ssh" knows what to do
-script_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-cd $script_dir
-
-vagrant ssh -- \
-        PYTHONPATH=/home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34/lib/python3.4/site-packages \
-        /home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34/bin/python \
-        /home/vagrant/brozzler-ve34/bin/brozzler-new-site "$@"