diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index a8495d2..c40a258 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@
   :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.5.1"]
                  [enlive "1.1.1"]
                  [ring "1.2.0"]
+                 [clj-http "1.0.0"]
                  [net.cgrand/moustache "1.1.0"]])
diff --git a/src/tutorial/scrape1.clj b/src/tutorial/scrape1.clj
index c13f8d7..39018ef 100644
--- a/src/tutorial/scrape1.clj
+++ b/src/tutorial/scrape1.clj
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 (ns tutorial.scrape1
-  (:require [net.cgrand.enlive-html :as html]))
+  (:require [clj-http.client]
+            [net.cgrand.enlive-html :as html]))
 
 (def ^:dynamic *base-url* "https://news.ycombinator.com/")
 
 (defn fetch-url [url]
-  (html/html-resource (java.net.URL. url)))
+  (-> url clj-http.client/get :body java.io.StringReader. html/html-resource))
 
 (defn hn-headlines []
   (map html/text (html/select (fetch-url *base-url*) [:td.title :a])))
diff --git a/src/tutorial/scrape2.clj b/src/tutorial/scrape2.clj
index 6f0f726..40ecb21 100644
--- a/src/tutorial/scrape2.clj
+++ b/src/tutorial/scrape2.clj
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 (ns tutorial.scrape2
-  (:require [net.cgrand.enlive-html :as html]))
+  (:require [clj-http.client]
+            [net.cgrand.enlive-html :as html]))
 
 (def ^:dynamic *base-url* "https://news.ycombinator.com/")
 
 (defn fetch-url [url]
-  (html/html-resource (java.net.URL. url)))
+  (-> url clj-http.client/get :body java.io.StringReader. html/html-resource))
 
 (defn hn-headlines-and-points []
   (map html/text