diff --git a/src/webqueue2api/parser/queue.py b/src/webqueue2api/parser/queue.py
index ff5e0cc..79eff5e 100644
--- a/src/webqueue2api/parser/queue.py
+++ b/src/webqueue2api/parser/queue.py
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ def __get_items(self, headers_only: bool) -> list:
                 list: a list of items for this Queue
         """
         items = []
+        valid_items = []
+        multi_item_processes = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=multiprocessing.cpu_count())
 
         for item in os.listdir(self.path):
             item_path = Path(self.path, item)
@@ -81,7 +83,9 @@ def __get_items(self, headers_only: bool) -> list:
             is_file = True if os.path.isfile(item_path) else False
 
             if is_file and is_valid_item_name(item):
-                items.append(Item(self.name, item, headers_only))
+                valid_items.append(item)
+
+        items = multi_item_processes.starmap_async(Item, [(self.name, item, headers_only) for item in valid_items]).get()
 
         return items