@bro How about something like this in torrent_handling.py as an alternative workaround? It's working perfectly for me (assuming I change the https in the feed url itself to http... You might want to consider doing that automatically too) try: try: r = requests.get(torrent_url, **args) except IOError...

Sorry if this has already been answered in this thread, but I'm also getting the urlopen error on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which uses Python 2.7.6. Is there any way to fix the issue other than upgrading my python version? 14.04 depends on 2.7.6, so upgrading to python 2.7.9 where the issue is allegedly fix...