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--- README.md
+++ README.md
@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@ ronk: RSS-to-honk bot
 =====================
 
 Repost from RSS feed to [honk][honk-tedu].
+ONLY standard library (WITHOUT external dependencies).
 
-Installing dependencies:
-```
-$ python3 -m pip install requests
-```
-
 Periodic launch of the bot (for example: [@hourly][openbsd-crontab5]):
 ```
 $ python3 ronk.py --db ~/example --rss https://example.org/feed.rss --honk https://honk.server.org/api --token $TOKEN
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--- TODO
+++ TODO
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-* Remove dependency on `requests` (`urllib.request.urlopen`)
 * Relative links
 ```
 See <a href="cgi?action=article;sid=20240727110501">earlier report</a>
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--- ronk.py
+++ ronk.py
@@ -1,41 +1,42 @@
 """RSS-to-honk bot."""
 import dbm
-import argparse
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
-import requests
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from urllib.parse import urlencode
+from urllib.request import urlopen
 
 
-parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog='ronk', description='RSS-to-honk bot')
+parser = ArgumentParser(prog='ronk', description='RSS-to-honk bot')
 parser.add_argument('--db', required=True, help='path to local database file')
 parser.add_argument('--rss', required=True, help='source RSS URL')
 parser.add_argument('--honk', required=True, help='destination honk server URL')
 parser.add_argument('--token', required=True, help='user token, see honk(3)')
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
+
 with dbm.open(args.db, 'c') as db:
-    resp = requests.get(args.rss, timeout=10)
-    resp.raise_for_status()
+    with urlopen(args.rss, timeout=15) as response:
+        rss_content = response.read().decode("utf8")
 
     collected = []
-    for root_child in ET.fromstring(resp.text):
+    for root_child in ET.fromstring(rss_content):
         if root_child.tag == "channel":
             for channel_child in root_child:
                 if channel_child.tag == 'item':
                     collected.insert(0, {i.tag: i.text or "" for i in channel_child})
             break
 
-    honk_server = requests.Session()
     for item in collected:
         link = item.get('link')
         if link and link not in db:
-            params = {"action": "honk", "token": args.token, "format": "html"}
             p = ET.Element('p')
             a = ET.SubElement(p, 'a')
             a.attrib.update(href=link)
             a.text = item.get('title') or link
             noise = ET.tostring(p, encoding="unicode")
             noise += item.get("description", "").strip()
-            resp = honk_server.post(args.honk, params=params, files={"noise": (None, noise)}, timeout=10)
-            resp.raise_for_status()
-            db[link] = resp.text or "1"
+            post_data = {"action": "honk", "token": args.token, "format": "html", "noise": noise}
+            with urlopen(args.honk, data=urlencode(post_data).encode(), timeout=15) as response:
+                honk_url = response.read().decode("utf8")
+            db[link] = honk_url or "1"