diff --git a/lib/xeno-canto.js b/lib/xeno-canto.js
index 0cd6004..8d592c0 100644
--- a/lib/xeno-canto.js
+++ b/lib/xeno-canto.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 'use strict';
 
 /** @dependencies */
-var rest = require('rest');
+var request = require('request');
 
 /** @constructor */
 function XenoCanto(){
@@ -93,12 +93,23 @@ XenoCanto.prototype.search = function(query, success){
 };
 
 function get(that, url, success){
-	rest(url).then(function(response) { 
-			// store response in instance var
-			that.entity = JSON.parse(response.entity);
-			success(that);
-		}
-	);
+
+    var opts = {
+        url: url,
+        method: 'GET',
+        timeout: (10*1000),
+        headers:
+        {
+            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163 Safari/537.36'
+        }
+    };
+
+    request(opts, function (err, res, url) {
+        // store response in instance var
+        that.entity = JSON.parse(res.body);
+        success(that);
+	});
+	
 }