diff --git a/oxdbarchive/cron.py b/oxdbarchive/cron.py
index 64bb6ce..7584e4d 100644
--- a/oxdbarchive/cron.py
+++ b/oxdbarchive/cron.py
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ def extractNew():
   for f in ArchiveFile.select(ArchiveFile.q.extracted == False):
     f.extractAll()
 
-def cleanScrapeitCache():
-  #remove files older than 30 days from scrapeit cache
-  os.system("""find /var/cache/scrapeit/ -type f -ctime +30 -exec rm '{}' \;""")
-
 def cleanClipMovieCache():
   cache = os.path.abspath('oxdb/cache/mini/')
   for d, p, files in os.walk(cache):
diff --git a/oxdbarchive/model.py b/oxdbarchive/model.py
index afce4ba..943db0e 100644
--- a/oxdbarchive/model.py
+++ b/oxdbarchive/model.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import shutil
 import socket
 
 import simplejson
-from scrapeit.utils import read_url
+from oxutils.net import getUrl
 import subtitles
 
 import cache
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class Archive(SQLObject):
       url = "%s/%s?md5sum=%s" % (self.baseUrlFrontend, action, md5sum)
       #print url
       try:
-        result = read_url(url)
+        result = getUrl(url)
       except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
         print e.code
         print e.read()
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ class Archive(SQLObject):
   def syncFrontend(self):
     dto = socket.getdefaulttimeout()
     socket.setdefaulttimeout(256)
-    data = read_url("%s/list" % self.baseUrlFrontend)
+    data = getUrl("%s/list" % self.baseUrlFrontend)
     md5sums = simplejson.loads(data)['files']
     socket.setdefaulttimeout(dto)
     for md5sum in md5sums: