diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint.yml b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
index 19366ec9..71513a62 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: django CMS linters.yml
+name: json2xml linters.yml
 
 on: [push, pull_request]
 
diff --git a/json2xml/utils.py b/json2xml/utils.py
index 0859fe27..d5109bdf 100644
--- a/json2xml/utils.py
+++ b/json2xml/utils.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 """Utils methods to convert XML data to dict from various sources"""
 import json
 
-import requests
+import urllib3
 
 
 class JSONReadError(Exception):
@@ -43,11 +43,12 @@ def readfromurl(url: str, params: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> dict[str, str
     """
     Loads json from an URL over the internets
     """
-    # TODO: See if we can remove requests too from the deps too. Then, we will become
-    # zero deps. refernce link here: https://bit.ly/3gzICjU
-    response = requests.get(url, params=params)
-    if response.status_code == 200:
-        data = response.json()
+    # we need a PoolManager for connection pooling with urllib3. Also, params
+    # needs to be encoded too
+    http = urllib3.PoolManager()
+    response = http.request("GET", url, fields=params)
+    if response.status == 200:
+        data = json.loads(response.data.decode('utf-8'))
         return data
     raise URLReadError("URL is not returning correct response")
 
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 27964c51..89b27cee 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-requests>=2.20.0
 defusedxml==0.7.1
+urllib3==1.26.13
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..83c88aca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    pip-compile
+#
+defusedxml==0.7.1
+    # via -r requirements.in
+urllib3==1.26.13
+    # via -r requirements.in