diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b0a51a4..3f8731e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Requirements
 	* python3
 	* html5lib
 	* requests (settext)
-	* python-datutil, jinja2 (index subcommand)
+	* python-dateutil, jinja2 (index subcommand)
 
 Installation
 -------------
diff --git a/etherdump/commands/index.py b/etherdump/commands/index.py
index 23d09f5..4e915cf 100644
--- a/etherdump/commands/index.py
+++ b/etherdump/commands/index.py
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
-import sys, json, re, os, urlparse
+import sys, json, re, os
 from datetime import datetime
-from urllib import urlencode
-from urllib2 import HTTPError
+
+try:
+    # python2
+    from urllib2 import urlopen, URLError, HTTPError
+    from urllib import urlencode
+    from urlparse import urlparse, urlunparse
+except ImportError:
+    # python3
+    from urllib.parse import urlparse, urlunparse, urlencode, quote
+    from urllib.request import urlopen, URLError, HTTPError
+
 from jinja2 import FileSystemLoader, Environment
-from common import *
+from etherdump.commands.common import *
 from time import sleep
 import dateutil.parser
 
@@ -44,9 +53,9 @@ def absurl (url, base=None):
     return url
 
 def url_base (url):
-    (scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment) = urlparse.urlparse(url)
+    (scheme, netloc, path, params, query, fragment) = urlparse(url)
     path, _ = os.path.split(path.lstrip("/"))
-    ret = urlparse.urlunparse((scheme, netloc, path, None, None, None))
+    ret = urlunparse((scheme, netloc, path, None, None, None))
     if ret:
         ret += "/"
     return ret
@@ -116,14 +125,14 @@ def main (args):
 
     pads = map(loadmeta, inputs)
     pads = map(fixdates, pads)
-    args.pads = pads
+    args.pads = list(pads)
 
     if args.timestamp == None:
         args.timestamp = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
 
     padurlbase = re.sub(r"api/1.2.9/$", "p/", info["apiurl"])
-    if type(padurlbase) == unicode:
-        padurlbase = padurlbase.encode("utf-8")
+    # if type(padurlbase) == unicode:
+    #     padurlbase = padurlbase.encode("utf-8")
     args.siteurl = args.siteurl or padurlbase
     args.utcnow = datetime.utcnow().strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S +0000")
 
@@ -150,14 +159,15 @@ def main (args):
     linkbase = args.linkbase or url_base(args.feedurl)
     # print ("linkbase", linkbase, args.linkbase, args.feedurl)
 
-    for p in pads:
+    for p in args.pads:
+        print ("p", p, file=sys.stderr)
         versions_by_type = {}
         p["versions_by_type"] = versions_by_type
         for v in p["versions"]:
             t = v["type"]
             versions_by_type[t] = v
         with open (versions_by_type["text"]["path"]) as f:
-            p["text"] = f.read().decode("utf-8")
+            p["text"] = f.read()
 
         # ADD IN LINK
         for v in linkversions:
@@ -171,6 +181,6 @@ def main (args):
 
     if args.output:
         with open(args.output, "w") as f:
-            print (template.render(vars(args)).encode("utf-8"), file=f)
+            print (template.render(vars(args)), file=f)
     else:
-            print (template.render(vars(args)).encode("utf-8"))
+            print (template.render(vars(args)))