diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1fd6b44..5eb3450 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,21 +1,15 @@
 [package]
 name="stc"
-version="0.0.1"
+version="0.0.2"
 authors=["Adrian Malacoda <adrian.malacoda@monarch-pass.net>"]
 
 [dependencies]
-log = "0.3.6"
-env_logger = "0.4.0"
+log = "0.4.1"
+env_logger = "0.5.10"
 sqlite = "0.23.4"
-select = "0.3.0"
-
-# 26 February 2017: Would ideally like to use up-to-date libraries here
-# but this depends on openssl 0.9.7 which conflicts with the openssl 0.7.17 dependency
-# used in tenquestionmarks (ultimately brought in by discord-rs which uses hyper 0.9). So, as a necessary evil,
-# we need to keep to those versions as well to be compatible with tenquestionmarks.
-#reqwest = "0.4.0"
-hyper = "0.9.18"
-serde_json = "0.9"
+select = "0.4.2"
+reqwest = "0.8.5"
+serde_json = "1.0.17"
 retry = { git = "https://github.com/jimmycuadra/retry", rev = "3fa812e650d64ede61ea243fb83ef1a222ff0f84" }
 mopa = "0.2.2"
-linked-hash-map = "0.4.1"
+linked-hash-map = "0.5.1"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index b264b60..37e1f83 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-extern crate hyper;
+extern crate reqwest;
 extern crate select;
 extern crate serde_json;
 extern crate retry;
diff --git a/src/searchers/mediawiki.rs b/src/searchers/mediawiki.rs
index 095c0e1..b151b33 100644
--- a/src/searchers/mediawiki.rs
+++ b/src/searchers/mediawiki.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 use Link;
 use searchers::Searcher;
 
-use hyper;
-use hyper::Client;
-use hyper::status::StatusCode;
+use reqwest;
+use reqwest::StatusCode;
 
 use select::document::Document;
 use select::predicate::Name;
@@ -42,14 +41,12 @@ impl Link for WikiPage {
 }
 
 pub struct MediawikiSearcher {
-    client: Client,
     baseurl: String
 }
 
 impl MediawikiSearcher {
     pub fn new (url: String) -> MediawikiSearcher {
         MediawikiSearcher {
-            client: Client::new(),
             baseurl: url
         }
     }
@@ -58,10 +55,10 @@ impl MediawikiSearcher {
         let mut contents = String::new();
         let api_url = &format!("{}{}", self.baseurl, name);
         let mut response = retry(Fixed::from_millis(RETRY_WAIT_MILLIS).take(NUM_RETRIES), || {
-            self.client.get(api_url).send()
+            reqwest::get(api_url)
         })?;
 
-        match response.status {
+        match response.status() {
             StatusCode::Ok => {
                 response.read_to_string(&mut contents)?;
                 Result::Ok(contents)
@@ -74,7 +71,7 @@ impl MediawikiSearcher {
 
     fn parse_entry (&self, page: String) -> Result<WikiPage, Error> {
         let document = Document::from(&page[..]);
-        let page_name = String::from(document.find(Name("h1")).iter().next().expect("expected h1").text());
+        let page_name = String::from(document.find(Name("h1")).into_iter().next().expect("expected h1").text());
         let page_url = format!("{}{}", self.baseurl, page_name.replace(" ", "_"));
 
         Result::Ok(WikiPage {
@@ -92,13 +89,13 @@ impl Searcher<WikiPage> for MediawikiSearcher {
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 enum Error {
-    Http(hyper::error::Error),
+    Http(reqwest::Error),
     Io(std::io::Error),
     Other(String)
 }
 
-impl From<hyper::error::Error> for Error {
-    fn from (error: hyper::error::Error) -> Error {
+impl From<reqwest::Error> for Error {
+    fn from (error: reqwest::Error) -> Error {
         Error::Http(error)
     }
 }
@@ -109,8 +106,8 @@ impl From<std::io::Error> for Error {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<retry::Error<hyper::Error>> for Error {
-    fn from (err: retry::Error<hyper::Error>) -> Error {
+impl From<retry::Error<reqwest::Error>> for Error {
+    fn from (err: retry::Error<reqwest::Error>) -> Error {
         match err {
             retry::Error::Operation { error, total_delay, tries } => {
                 Error::Http(error)
diff --git a/src/searchers/yugioh.rs b/src/searchers/yugioh.rs
index 852dd25..8404469 100644
--- a/src/searchers/yugioh.rs
+++ b/src/searchers/yugioh.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 use Link;
 use searchers::Searcher;
 
-use hyper;
-use hyper::Client;
+use reqwest;
 
 use serde_json;
 use serde_json::Value;
@@ -48,22 +47,18 @@ impl Link for YugiohCard {
     }
 }
 
-pub struct YugiohSearcher {
-    client: Client
-}
+pub struct YugiohSearcher {}
 
 impl YugiohSearcher {
     pub fn new () -> YugiohSearcher {
-        YugiohSearcher {
-            client: Client::new()
-        }
+        YugiohSearcher {}
     }
 
     fn do_search (&self, name: &str) -> Result<String, Error> {
         let mut contents = String::new();
         let api_url = &format!("http://yugiohprices.com/api/card_data/{}", name);
         let mut response = retry(Fixed::from_millis(RETRY_WAIT_MILLIS).take(NUM_RETRIES), || {
-            self.client.get(api_url).send()
+            reqwest::get(api_url)
         })?;
         response.read_to_string(&mut contents)?;
         Result::Ok(contents)
@@ -102,14 +97,14 @@ impl Searcher<YugiohCard> for YugiohSearcher {
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 enum Error {
-    Http(hyper::error::Error),
+    Http(reqwest::Error),
     Io(std::io::Error),
     Json(serde_json::Error),
     Other(String)
 }
 
-impl From<hyper::error::Error> for Error {
-    fn from (error: hyper::error::Error) -> Error {
+impl From<reqwest::Error> for Error {
+    fn from (error: reqwest::Error) -> Error {
         Error::Http(error)
     }
 }
@@ -126,8 +121,8 @@ impl From<serde_json::Error> for Error {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<retry::Error<hyper::Error>> for Error {
-    fn from (err: retry::Error<hyper::Error>) -> Error {
+impl From<retry::Error<reqwest::Error>> for Error {
+    fn from (err: retry::Error<reqwest::Error>) -> Error {
         match err {
             retry::Error::Operation { error, total_delay, tries } => {
                 Error::Http(error)