diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0926936..ff2dbec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ If you get a [permission failure](https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo/issues/206)
             ;; optional signature for posts
             :signature "#newsbot"
             ;; optionally try to resolve URLs in posts to skip URL shorteners
-            ;; requires cURL to be installed and defaults to false
+            ;; defaults to false
             :resolve-urls? true
             ;; optional content filter regexes
             ;; any posts matching the regexes will be filtered out
diff --git a/mastodon-bot.cljs b/mastodon-bot.cljs
index 5e456cb..18eefdd 100755
--- a/mastodon-bot.cljs
+++ b/mastodon-bot.cljs
@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@
    [cljs.reader :as edn]
    [clojure.set :refer [rename-keys]]
    [clojure.string :as string]
-   ["child_process" :as cp]
+   ["deasync" :as deasync]
+   ["request" :as request]
    ["fs" :as fs]
-   ["http" :as http]
-   ["https" :as https]
    ["mastodon-api" :as mastodon]
    ["rss-parser" :as rss]
    ["tumblr" :as tumblr]
@@ -62,15 +61,18 @@
 (defn delete-status [status]
   (.delete mastodon-client (str "statuses/" status) #js {}))
 
-(defn resolve-url [[url]]
+(defn resolve-url [[uri]]
   (try
     (or
-      (some-> (str (.execSync cp (str "curl -sIL " url) #js{}))
-              (->> (re-seq #"[Ll]ocation: .*"))
-              (first)
-              (string/replace #"[Ll]ocation: " ""))
-      url)
-    (catch js/Error _ url)))
+      (some-> ((deasync request)
+               #js {:method "GET"
+                    :uri (if (string/starts-with? uri "https://") uri (str "https://" uri))
+                    :followRedirect false})
+              (.-headers)
+              (.-location)
+              (string/replace "?mbid=social_twitter" ""))
+      uri)
+    (catch js/Error _ uri)))
 
 (def shortened-url-pattern #"(https?://)?(?:\S+(?::\S*)?@)?(?:(?!(?:10|127)(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})(?!(?:169\.254|192\.168)(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?!172\.(?:1[6-9]|2\d|3[0-1])(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[01]\d|22[0-3])(?:\.(?:1?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])){2}(?:\.(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-4]))|(?:(?:[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]-*)*[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]+)(?:\.(?:[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]-*)*[a-z\u00a1-\uffff0-9]+)*(?:\.(?:[a-z\u00a1-\uffff]{2,}))\.?)(?::\d{2,5})?(?:[/?#]\S*)?")
 
@@ -104,9 +106,11 @@
    (post-status-with-images status-text urls []))
   ([status-text [url & urls] ids]
    (if url
-     (.get (if (string/starts-with? url "https://") https http) url
+     (-> request
+         (.get url)
+         (.on "response"
            (fn [image-stream]
-             (post-image image-stream status-text #(post-status-with-images status-text urls (conj ids %)))))
+             (post-image image-stream status-text #(post-status-with-images status-text urls (conj ids %))))))
      (post-status status-text (not-empty ids)))))
 
 (defn get-mastodon-timeline [callback]
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 2b757a6..a17ca9d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
     "mastodon-api": "1.3.0",
     "rss-parser": "3.1.2",
     "tumblr": "0.4.1",
-    "twitter": "1.7.1"
+    "twitter": "1.7.1",
+    "deasync": "0.1.13",
+    "request": "2.88.0"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "start": "./mastodon-bot.cljs"