diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 866e590..a79a4d4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ image boards and publishes serialised JSON to RabbitMQ
 Compatible image boards: 4chan, lainchan, uboachan,
 22chan, wizchan, 1chan, 2ch.hk, endchan, 38chan, alokal,
 horochan, doushio, desuchan, tgchan, lolnada, 7chan, chanon,
-chan.org.li.
+chan.org.li, hispachan, 8kun, nowere, iichan and more.
 
 Can optionally push monitoring data to InfluxDB. Below is an
 example of Grafana being used to display it.
diff --git a/monitoring.png b/monitoring.png
index ae76b18..a965698 100644
Binary files a/monitoring.png and b/monitoring.png differ
diff --git a/post_process.py b/post_process.py
index 158b2c9..a00f316 100644
--- a/post_process.py
+++ b/post_process.py
@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
-import base64
 import hashlib
-import re
 import zlib
 from io import BytesIO
 from urllib.parse import urljoin
 
 import imagehash
 from PIL import Image
+from hexlib.imhash import b64hash
 
 from util import logger
 
-LINK_RE = re.compile(r"(https?://[\w\-_.]+\.[a-z]{2,4}([^\s<'\"]*|$))")
-HTML_HREF_RE = re.compile(r"href=\"([^\"]+)\"")
+from hexlib.regex import HTML_HREF_RE, LINK_RE
 
 IMAGE_FILETYPES = (
     # :orig for twitter cdn
@@ -33,12 +31,6 @@ def _is_image(url):
     return url.lower().endswith(IMAGE_FILETYPES)
 
 
-def b64hash(imhash, bcount):
-    return base64.b64encode(
-        sum(1 << i for i, b in enumerate(imhash.hash.flatten()) if b).to_bytes(bcount, "big")
-    ).decode("ascii")
-
-
 def image_meta(url, url_idx, web):
     r = web.get(url)
     if not r:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c0188c8..fe9c1d1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,6 @@ requests[socks]
 stem
 influxdb
 pika
-bs4
\ No newline at end of file
+bs4
+urllib3
+git+git://github.com/simon987/hexlib.git
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
index 1a87491..0b188ce 100644
--- a/run.py
+++ b/run.py
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ BYPASS_RPS = False
 
 
 class ChanScanner:
-    def __init__(self, helper):
-        self.web = Web(monitoring if MONITORING else None, rps=helper.rps)
+    def __init__(self, helper, proxy):
+        self.web = Web(monitoring if MONITORING else None, rps=helper.rps, proxy=proxy)
         self.helper = helper
         self.state = ChanState()
 
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ class ChanState:
             conn.commit()
 
 
-def publish_worker(queue: Queue, helper):
+def publish_worker(queue: Queue, helper, p):
     channel = connect()
-    web = Web(monitoring if MONITORING else None, rps=helper.rps)
+    web = Web(monitoring if MONITORING else None, rps=helper.rps, proxy=p)
 
     while True:
         try:
@@ -203,6 +203,12 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     chan = sys.argv[2]
     chan_helper = CHANS[chan]
 
+    proxy = None
+    if len(sys.argv) > 3:
+        proxy = sys.argv[3]
+        logger.info("Using proxy %s" % proxy)
+
+    BYPASS_RPS = True
     if BYPASS_RPS:
         chan_helper.rps = 10
 
@@ -212,10 +218,10 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     publish_q = Queue()
     for _ in range(5):
-        publish_thread = Thread(target=publish_worker, args=(publish_q, chan_helper))
+        publish_thread = Thread(target=publish_worker, args=(publish_q, chan_helper, proxy))
         publish_thread.start()
 
-    s = ChanScanner(chan_helper)
+    s = ChanScanner(chan_helper, proxy)
     while True:
         for p, b in s.all_posts():
             publish_q.put((p, b))
diff --git a/util.py b/util.py
index cd7d30a..8bb8e7a 100644
--- a/util.py
+++ b/util.py
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 import logging
 import sys
-import time
 import traceback
 from datetime import datetime
 from logging import FileHandler, StreamHandler
 
 import requests
+from hexlib.misc import rate_limit
+from urllib3 import disable_warnings
+
+disable_warnings()
 
 last_time_called = dict()
 
@@ -21,35 +24,26 @@ logger.addHandler(file_handler)
 logger.addHandler(StreamHandler(sys.stdout))
 
 
-def rate_limit(per_second):
-    min_interval = 1.0 / float(per_second)
-
-    def decorate(func):
-        last_time_called[func] = 0
-
-        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
-            elapsed = time.perf_counter() - last_time_called[func]
-            wait_time = min_interval - elapsed
-            if wait_time > 0:
-                time.sleep(wait_time)
-
-            last_time_called[func] = time.perf_counter()
-            return func(*args, **kwargs)
-
-        return wrapper
-
-    return decorate
-
-
 class Web:
-    def __init__(self, monitoring, rps=1/2):
+    def __init__(self, monitoring, rps=1 / 2, proxy=None):
         self.session = requests.Session()
+        if proxy:
+            self.session.proxies = {"http": proxy, "https": proxy}
+            self.session.verify = False
         self._rps = rps
         self.monitoring = monitoring
 
         @rate_limit(self._rps)
         def _get(url, **kwargs):
-            return self.session.get(url, **kwargs)
+            retries = 3
+
+            while retries > 0:
+                retries -= 1
+                try:
+                    return self.session.get(url, **kwargs)
+                except Exception as e:
+                    logger.warning("Error with request %s: %s" % (url, str(e)))
+            raise Exception("Gave up request after maximum number of retries")
 
         self._get = _get