diff --git a/gensbbsrss.py b/gensbbsrss.py
index 3cf0df8..33f5b8f 100644
--- a/gensbbsrss.py
+++ b/gensbbsrss.py
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 import os
+from io import BytesIO
 from datetime import datetime
 from xml.etree import ElementTree
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
-with open('index.html') as file:
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(file.read())
-    sbbsbase = soup.find('link', rel='canonical')['href']
+tree = ElementTree.ElementTree().parse('index.html')
+sbbsbase = tree.find('./head/link[@rel="canonical"]').attrib['href']
 
 feed = ElementTree.Element('rss', version='2.0')
 channel = ElementTree.SubElement(feed, 'channel')
@@ -17,23 +16,26 @@ description = ElementTree.SubElement(channel, 'description')
 description.text = 'just a showcase of software being broken :)'
 language = ElementTree.SubElement(channel, 'language')
 language.text = 'en-us'
+file = BytesIO()
 def parse_file(i):
-    with open(i) as file:
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(file.read())
+    tree = ElementTree.ElementTree().parse(i)
     item = ElementTree.Element('item')
     title = ElementTree.SubElement(item, 'title')
-    title.text = soup.h1.string
+    title.text = tree.find('body').find('h1').text
     link = ElementTree.SubElement(item, 'link')
-    link.text = soup.find('link', rel='canonical')['href']
+    link.text = tree.find('./head/link[@rel="canonical"]').attrib['href']
     guid = ElementTree.SubElement(item, 'guid')
     guid.text = f'sbbs/{os.path.splitext(i)[0]}'
     description = ElementTree.SubElement(item, 'description')
-    description.text = str(soup.find('div', class_='content'))
-    return (datetime.fromisoformat(soup.find('meta', {'name': 'created'})['content']), item)
+    ElementTree.ElementTree(tree.find('./body/div[@class="content"]')).write(file, 'utf-8', method='html')
+    description.text = file.getvalue().decode()
+    file.seek(0)
+    file.truncate(0)
+    return (datetime.fromisoformat(tree.find('./head/meta[@name="created"]').attrib['content']), item)
 for date, i in sorted(map(parse_file, filter(lambda i: i not in ('index.html', 'index.xml'), os.listdir('.'))), reverse=True, key=lambda i: i[0]):
     # http://johnbokma.com/blog/2019/10/09/rfc-822-and-rfc-3339-dates-in-python.html
     ctime = date.ctime()
     pubdate = ElementTree.SubElement(i, 'pubDate')
     pubdate.text = f"{ctime[0:3]}, {date.day:02d} {ctime[4:7]} {date.strftime(' %Y %H:%M:%S %z')}"
     channel.append(i)
-ElementTree.ElementTree(feed).write('index.xml', 'utf-8')
+ElementTree.ElementTree(feed).write('index.xml', 'utf-8', True)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2620f05..1b25361 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 feedparser
-beautifulsoup4