diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 8e4dd09..f49434a 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ Talk to ChatGPT without a browser.
 
 Requirements:
 * python3
-* python3-openai (See: https://pypi.org/project/openai/)
 
 Usage:
 * Put your OpenAI API key into the environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY or the file $USER/.config/me.fier.simpleGPT/api_key.txt (Linux) / %appdata%\me.fier.simpleGPT/api_key.txt (Windows)
diff --git a/simpleGPT.py b/simpleGPT.py
index 233d37e..3d02f81 100755
--- a/simpleGPT.py
+++ b/simpleGPT.py
@@ -12,11 +12,15 @@ if "HOME" in os.environ: userDir = os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"],".config")
 userDir = os.path.join(userDir,distro)
 os.makedirs(os.path.join(userDir,"conversations"),exist_ok = True)
 
-import openai
+api_key = False
 if "OPENAI_API_KEY" in os.environ:
-	openai.api_key = os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"]
+	api_key = os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"]
 elif os.path.isfile(os.path.join(userDir,"api_key.txt")):
-	openai.api_key = open(os.path.join(userDir,"api_key.txt"),"r").read().strip(" \t\r\n")
+	api_key = open(os.path.join(userDir,"api_key.txt"),"r").read().strip(" \t\r\n")
+
+if api_key == False:
+	print("Couldn't find API key, please set OPENAI_API_KEY or create " +os.path.join(userDir,"api_key.txt"))
+	os.exit(1)
 
 rolePrefix = "* "
 roleSuffix = " says:"
@@ -49,6 +53,22 @@ def convertHumanReadableToList(txt):
 	lst.append(message)
 	return lst
 
+import urllib.parse
+import urllib.request
+def chatCompletion(lst):
+	lstOut = {}
+	lstOut["model"] = "gpt-3.5-turbo"
+	lstOut["messages"] = lst
+	data = json.dumps(lstOut).encode("utf-8")
+	dataLength = len(data)
+	request = urllib.request.Request("https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions",data=data)
+	request.add_header("Content-Type","application/json")
+	request.add_header("Authorization","Bearer " + api_key)
+	response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
+	rtn = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
+	response.close()
+	return rtn
+
 userFile = os.path.join(userDir,"conversations",sys.argv[2] + ".txt")
 userFileTmp = userFile + ".tmp"
 if not os.path.isfile(userFile):
@@ -60,10 +80,11 @@ if not os.path.isfile(userFile):
 while True:
 	subprocess.Popen([sys.argv[1],userFile]).wait()
 	lst = convertHumanReadableToList(open(userFile,"r",encoding="utf8").read())
-	if lst[-1]["role"] != "user" or lst[-1]["content"].strip(" \t\r\n") == "": sys.exit(0)
+	lst[-1]["content"] = lst[-1]["content"].strip(" \t\r\n")
+	if not (lst[-1]["role"] in ["user","system"]) or lst[-1]["content"] == "": sys.exit(0)
 	print("Awaiting response ...")
-	response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(model="gpt-3.5-turbo",messages=lst)
-	lst.append({"role": "assistant", "content": response["choices"][0]["message"].content})
+	response = chatCompletion(lst)
+	lst.append({"role": "assistant", "content": response["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]})
 	lst.append({"role": "user", "content": ""})
 	open(userFileTmp,"w",encoding="utf-8").write(convertListToHumanReadable(lst).strip(" \t\r\n") + "\n")
 	os.replace(userFileTmp,userFile)