diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index d5158b4..50b3b49 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ const fs              = require('fs')
     "allPackagesOutput"  : "/path/to/allpackages.json"
   , "repositoriesOutput" : "/path/to/repositories.json"
   , "githubOutput"       : "/path/to/githubusers.json"
+  , "aussieOutput"       : "/path/to/aussieOutput.json"
   , "githubAuthToken"    : "yourgithubauthtoken"
 }
 
diff --git a/load-npm-data.js b/load-npm-data.js
index 8610d8e..e7e8e88 100644
--- a/load-npm-data.js
+++ b/load-npm-data.js
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 // if your GitHub location field matches this then we'll guess you're Aussie
 const GITHUB_REPO_REGEX = /github.com[:\/]([\.\-\w]+)\/([^$\/\.]+)/
-
-const npm = require('npm')
+    , NPM_ALL_PACKAGES_URL = 'https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry/_all_docs'
+    , NPM_SINGLE_PACKAGE_URL = 'https://registry.npmjs.org/{packageId}/latest'
+    , request = require('request').defaults({json:true})
+    , async = require('async');
 
 function matchGitHubRepo (npmPackage, repo) {
   var match = repo
@@ -15,34 +17,59 @@ function matchGitHubRepo (npmPackage, repo) {
   }
 }
 
-// load the list of all npm libs with 'repo' pointing to GitHub
-function loadNpmData (callback) {
+function getPackageData (repositories, allPackages, packageData, callback) {
+  request(NPM_SINGLE_PACKAGE_URL.replace('{packageId}', packageData.id), function (err, response, data) {
+    if (err) {
+      // log and continue usually just a timeout, possibly needs retry logic
+      console.log('error getting data for package: ' + packageData.id, err.message)
+      return callback()
+    }
+
+    // Bad maintainers property there are MANY just skip for much speed increase
+    if (!data.maintainers || !Array.isArray(data.maintainers)) {
+      return callback()
+    }
+
+    var repo = matchGitHubRepo(data.name, data.repository);
+
+    if (repo) {
+      repositories.push(repo)
+    }
+
+    allPackages.push({
+        name        : data.name
+      , maintainers : (data.maintainers || []).map(function (m) { return m && m.name })
+      , githubUser  : repo ? repo.githubUser : null
+      , githubRepo  : repo ? repo.githubRepo : null
+      , description : data.description
+    })
+
+    callback()
+  })
+}
+
+function getAllPackages (callback) {
   var repositories = []
     , allPackages  = []
 
-  npm.load(function (err) {
-    if (err) return callback(err)
-
-    npm.registry.get('/-/all', function (err, data) {
-      if (err) return callback(err)
+  // https://github.com/npm/npm-registry-couchapp/issues/162
+  request(NPM_ALL_PACKAGES_URL, function(err, response, body){
+    if (err) {
+      return callback(err);
+    }
 
-      Object.keys(data).forEach(function (k) {
-        var repo = matchGitHubRepo(data[k].name, data[k].repository)
-        if (repo)
-          repositories.push(repo)
+    if (!body || !body.rows) {
+      body = { rows: [] };
+    }
 
-        allPackages.push({
-            name        : data[k].name
-          , maintainers : (data[k].maintainers || []).map(function (m) { return m.name })
-          , githubUser  : repo ? repo.githubUser : null
-          , githubRepo  : repo ? repo.githubRepo : null
-          , description : data[k].description
-        })
-      })
+    async.mapLimit(body.rows, 10, getPackageData.bind(null, repositories, allPackages), function (err) {
+      if (err) {
+        return callback(err);
+      }
 
       callback(null, { repositories: repositories, allPackages: allPackages })
     })
   })
 }
 
-module.exports = loadNpmData
\ No newline at end of file
+module.exports = getAllPackages
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ac44b1a..8d59053 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@
   "author": "",
   "license": "MIT",
   "dependencies": {
-    "npm": "~1.2.18",
-    "async": "~0.2.7",
-    "request": "~2.20.0",
-    "function-rate-limit": "0.0.1"
+    "async": "~1.5.0",
+    "function-rate-limit": "0.0.1",
+    "request": "~2.67.0"
   },
   "private": true
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}