diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
index 226142b..18f3e6c 100644
--- a/.vscode/settings.json
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -18,9 +18,12 @@
     "luacheckrc",
     "lualogging",
     "Luarocks",
+    "luasec",
+    "luasocket",
     "mkdir",
     "setopt",
     "Stylua",
+    "tablex",
     "tmpl",
     "wibox",
     "writefunction"
diff --git a/rockspecs/awesomewm.d.tl-dev-1.rockspec b/rockspecs/awesomewm.d.tl-dev-1.rockspec
index a846424..d91ae98 100644
--- a/rockspecs/awesomewm.d.tl-dev-1.rockspec
+++ b/rockspecs/awesomewm.d.tl-dev-1.rockspec
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@ dependencies = {
    "lualogging 1.6.0",
    "inspect 3.1.3",
    "ansicolors 1.0.2",
-   "lua-curl 0.3.13",
    "htmlparser 0.3.9",
    "web_sanitize 1.3.0",
    "penlight 1.13.1",
+   "luasocket 3.1.0-1",
+   "luasec 1.2.0-1",
 }
 build = {
    type = "builtin",
diff --git a/src/awesomewm.d.tl/crawler/init.lua b/src/awesomewm.d.tl/crawler/init.lua
index 5482bf1..1305b9c 100644
--- a/src/awesomewm.d.tl/crawler/init.lua
+++ b/src/awesomewm.d.tl/crawler/init.lua
@@ -1,37 +1,52 @@
-local curl = require "cURL"
+local file = require "pl.file"
+local http = require "socket.http"
 local inspect = require "inspect"
 local log = require "logger"
+local tablex = require "pl.tablex"
 
 local crawler = {}
 
-function crawler.request(url)
-   local queue = {}
-   local easy = curl.easy():setopt_url(url):setopt_writefunction(function(buf)
-      table.insert(queue, buf)
-   end)
+local function http_request(url)
+   local body, code_or_error = http.request(url)
 
-   local ok, err = easy:perform()
-   if not ok then
-      easy:close()
-      error { message = "curl.easy failed", err = err }
+   if not body then
+      local err = code_or_error
+      error { "Request failed", err = err, url = url }
    end
 
-   local code, body = easy:getinfo_response_code(), table.concat(queue)
-   easy:close()
+   local code = code_or_error
 
    if code < 200 and code >= 300 then
       error {
-         message = "curl response code is not 200",
+         "Request successful, but returned non-200 code",
          code = code,
          body = body,
       }
    end
 
-   return queue
+   return body
+end
+
+local function get_resource_by_protocol(url)
+   local protocol, resource = url:match "^(%a+)://(.*)$"
+
+   if not not tablex.find({ "http", "https" }, protocol) then
+      local success, result = pcall(http_request, url)
+      return success, result
+   elseif protocol == "file" then
+      local res, err = file.read(resource, false)
+      if res then
+         return true, res
+      else
+         return false, err
+      end
+   else
+      error { "Unsupported protocol", protocol = protocol }
+   end
 end
 
 function crawler.fetch(url)
-   local success, result = pcall(crawler.request, url)
+   local success, result = get_resource_by_protocol(url)
 
    if not success then
       log:error(inspect { "Fetch failed", status = success, error = result })
@@ -40,7 +55,7 @@ function crawler.fetch(url)
 
    log:info(inspect { message = "Successfully fetched resource", url = url })
 
-   return table.concat(result, "")
+   return result
 end
 
 return crawler