diff --git a/microblog.py b/microblog.py
index 6891595..6772adc 100644
--- a/microblog.py
+++ b/microblog.py
@@ -373,13 +373,32 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         with open(config["file_output"], 'w') as f:
             print(json.dumps(profile), file=f)
 
-    import urllib.request as http
     def fn1(webring_config):    # come up with better name later
         def fetch(follow_list):
+            import urllib.request as http
+            def support_tor(proxy_var="https_proxy"):
+                if proxy_var not in os.environ:
+                    return False
+                proxy = os.environ[proxy_var]
+                if proxy.find("socks://") < 0:
+                    return False
+                import socket
+                import socks
+                host = proxy[proxy.rfind('/') + 1: proxy.rfind(':')]
+                port = proxy[proxy.rfind(':') + 1:]
+                socks.setdefaultproxy(
+                    socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, host, int(port))
+                socket.socket = socks.socksocket
+                return True
+
             other_people = []
+            proxy_handler = http.ProxyHandler(None) # use OS vars
+            if support_tor("https_proxy") or support_tor("http_proxy"):
+                proxy_handler = http.ProxyHandler({})
+            conn = http.build_opener(proxy_handler)
             for someone in follow_list:
                 try:
-                    with http.urlopen(someone) as response:
+                    with conn.open(someone) as response:
                         data = response.read()
                         other_people.append(json.loads(data))
                 except http.HTTPError as e:
@@ -389,9 +408,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
                     print(e, file=sys.stderr)
                     print("\t =>", someone, file=sys.stderr)
             return other_people
-        # list_of_json_objs = []
-        # with open("meta.json",'r') as f:
-        #     list_of_json_objs.append(json.loads(f.read()))
+
         list_of_json_objs = fetch(webring_config["list"])
         list_of_json_objs.sort(
             key=lambda e: e["last-updated"], reverse=True)
@@ -423,7 +440,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
                 __lastupdated__= strftime(
                     "%Y %b %d", localtime(epoch_timestamp))
             ))
-        # print(html, file=sys.stderr)
         return rendered
 
     def main():
@@ -488,3 +504,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     except toml.decoder.TomlDecodeError:
         traceback.print_exc()
         print("\n\tYour configuration file is malformed.")
+    except ModuleNotFoundError:
+        traceback.print_exc()
+        print("\n\tIf the module is 'socks', Tor support has recently been added (install PySocks package)")