diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d64c55c..22c205f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,38 +1,44 @@
 This branch is the development version of furaffinity-dl rewritten in python.
 
 # FurAffinity Downloader
-**furaffinity-dl** was a bash script (now in python) for batch downloading of galleries (and scraps/favourites) from furaffinity users.
+**furaffinity-dl** is a python script for batch downloading of galleries (and scraps/favourites) from furaffinity users.
 It was written for preservation of culture, to counter the people nuking their galleries every once a while.
 
-Supports all known submission types: images, texts and audio.
+Supports all known submission types: images, text, flash and audio.
 
 ## Requirements
-Exact requirements are unknown since its still in development, but you should only need `beautifulsoup4` to be installed (`pip3 install beautifulsoup4`). I will put a `requirements.txt` file in the repo soon.
+
+`pip3 install -r requirements.txt`
 
 **The script currently only works with the "Modern" theme**
 
-furaffinity-dl has only been tested only on Linux, however it should also work on Mac, Windows and any other platform that supports python.
+furaffinity-dl has only been tested only on Linux, however it should also work on Mac, Windows or any other platform that supports python.
 
 ## Usage
-Run it with
- `./furaffinity-dl.py category username`
+
+Run it with:
+
+`./furaffinity-dl.py category username`
+
 or:
- `python3 furaffinity-dl.py category username`
+
+`python3 furaffinity-dl.py category username`
 
 All files from the given section and user will be downloaded to the current directory.
 
 ### Examples
- `python3 furaffinity-dl.py gallery koul`
 
- `python3 furaffinity-dl.py -o koulsArt gallery koul`
+`python3 furaffinity-dl.py gallery koul`
 
- `python3 furaffinity-dl.py -o mylasFavs favorites mylafox`
+`python3 furaffinity-dl.py -o koulsArt gallery koul`
+
+`python3 furaffinity-dl.py -o mylasFavs favorites mylafox`
 
 For a full list of command line arguments use `./furaffinity-dl -h`.
 
-You can also log in to download restricted content. To do that, log in to FurAffinity in your web browser, export cookies to a file from your web browser in Netscape format (there are extensions to do that [for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ganbo/) and [for Chrome base browsers](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg)), you can then pass them to the script with the `-c` flag, like this (you may also have to provide your user-agent):
+You can also log in to download restricted content. To do that, log in to FurAffinity in your web browser, export cookies to a file from your web browser in Netscape format (there are extensions to do that [for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ganbo/) and [for Chrome based browsers](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg)), you can then pass them to the script with the `-c` flag, like this (you may also have to provide your user agent):
 
- `python3 furaffinity-dl.py -c cookies.txt -u 'Mozilla/5.0 ....' gallery letodoesart`
+`python3 furaffinity-dl.py -c cookies.txt -u 'Mozilla/5.0 ....' gallery letodoesart`
 
 ## TODO
 
@@ -41,4 +47,5 @@ You can also log in to download restricted content. To do that, log in to FurAff
  - Login without having to export cookies
 
 ## Disclaimer
+
 It is your own responsibility to check whether batch downloading is allowed by FurAffinity's terms of service and to abide by them. For further disclaimers see LICENSE.
diff --git a/furaffinity-dl.py b/furaffinity-dl.py
index 491b6ab..2226c4e 100755
--- a/furaffinity-dl.py
+++ b/furaffinity-dl.py
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
 import argparse
+from tqdm import tqdm
 from argparse import RawTextHelpFormatter
 import json
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 import requests
-import urllib.request
 import http.cookiejar as cookielib
-import urllib.parse
 import re
 import os
 
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@ current ideas / things to do:
  metadata injection (gets messy easily)
  sqlite database
  support for classic theme
- using `requests` instead of `urllib`
  turn this into a module
 '''
 
@@ -61,7 +59,7 @@ if bool(re.compile(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9\-~._]').search(args.username)):
     raise Exception('Username contains non-valid characters', args.username)
 
 # Initialise a session
-session = requests.Session()
+session = requests.session()
 session.headers.update({'User-Agent': args.ua})
 
 # Load cookies from a netscape cookie file (if provided)
@@ -74,9 +72,28 @@ base_url = 'https://www.furaffinity.net'
 gallery_url = '{}/{}/{}'.format(base_url, args.category, args.username)
 page_num = args.start
 
+def download_file(url, fname, desc):
+    r = session.get(url, stream=True)
+    if r.status_code != 200:
+        print("Got a HTTP {} while downloading; skipping".format(r.status_code))
+        return False
+    
+    total = int(r.headers.get('Content-Length', 0))
+    with open(fname, 'wb') as file, tqdm(
+        desc=desc.ljust(40)[:40],
+        total=total,
+        miniters=100,
+        unit='b',
+        unit_scale=True,
+        unit_divisor=1024
+    ) as bar:
+        for data in r.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
+            size = file.write(data)
+            bar.update(size)
+    return True
 
 # The cursed function that handles downloading
-def download_file(path):
+def download(path):
     page_url = '{}{}'.format(base_url, path)
     response = session.get(page_url)
     s = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
@@ -111,7 +128,7 @@ def download_file(path):
         temp_ele = comment.find(class_='comment-parent')
         parent_cid = None if temp_ele is None else int(temp_ele.attrs.get('href')[5:])
 
-        # Comment deleted or hidden
+        # Comment is deleted or hidden
         if comment.find(class_='comment-link') is None:
             continue
 
@@ -123,21 +140,11 @@ def download_file(path):
             'date': comment.find(class_='popup_date').attrs.get('title')
         })
 
-    print('Downloading "{}"... '.format(title))
-
-    # Because for some god forsaken reason FA keeps the original filename in the upload, in the case that it contains non-ASCII
-    # characters it can make this thing blow up. So we have to do some annoying IRI stuff to make it work. Maybe consider `requests`
-    # instead of `urllib`
-    def strip_non_ascii(s): return ''.join(i for i in s if ord(i) < 128)
-    url = 'https:{}'.format(image)
-    url = urllib.parse.urlsplit(url)
-    url = list(url)
-    url[2] = urllib.parse.quote(url[2])
-    url = urllib.parse.urlunsplit(url)
-    try:
-        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, os.path.join(args.output, strip_non_ascii(filename)))
-    except urllib.error.HTTPError:
-        print("404 Not Found, skipping")
+    url ='https:{}'.format(image)
+    output_path = os.path.join(args.output, filename)
+    
+    if not download_file(url, output_path, data["title"]):
+        return False
 
     # Write a UTF-8 encoded JSON file for metadata
     with open(os.path.join(args.output, '{}.json'.format(filename)), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
@@ -156,7 +163,7 @@ while True:
             account_username = s.find(class_='loggedin_user_avatar').attrs.get('alt')
             print('Logged in as', account_username)
         else:
-            print('Not logged in, some users gallery\'s may be unaccessible and NSFW content is not downloadable')
+            print('Not logged in, NSFW content is unaccessible')
 
     # System messages
     if s.find(class_='notice-message') is not None:
@@ -174,7 +181,7 @@ while True:
 
     # Download all images on the page
     for img in s.findAll('figure'):
-        download_file(img.find('a').attrs.get('href'))
+        download(img.find('a').attrs.get('href'))
 
     page_num += 1
     print('Downloading page', page_num)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..952bbfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+beautifulsoup4
+requests
+tqdm