diff --git a/packages/blitz-net/src/lib.rs b/packages/blitz-net/src/lib.rs
index 478eeb83..72357ab5 100644
--- a/packages/blitz-net/src/lib.rs
+++ b/packages/blitz-net/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,18 @@ use tokio::{
 
 const USER_AGENT: &str = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0";
 
+pub async fn get_text(url: &str) -> String {
+    Client::new()
+        .get(url)
+        .header("User-Agent", USER_AGENT)
+        .send()
+        .await
+        .unwrap()
+        .text()
+        .await
+        .unwrap()
+}
+
 pub struct Provider<D> {
     rt: Handle,
     client: Client,
diff --git a/packages/blitz/Cargo.toml b/packages/blitz/Cargo.toml
index 70637444..2cd7268b 100644
--- a/packages/blitz/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages/blitz/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 [features]
 default = ["net", "accessibility", "menu", "tracing", "svg"]
 svg = ["blitz-renderer-vello/svg"]
-net = ["dep:tokio", "dep:reqwest", "dep:url", "dep:blitz-net"]
+net = ["dep:tokio", "dep:url", "dep:blitz-net"]
 accessibility = ["blitz-shell/accessibility"]
 menu = ["blitz-shell/menu"]
 tracing = ["blitz-shell/tracing"]
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ blitz-net = { path = "../blitz-net", optional = true }
 # IO & Networking
 url = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"], optional = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread"], optional = true }
-reqwest = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
 all-features = true
diff --git a/packages/blitz/src/lib.rs b/packages/blitz/src/lib.rs
index 01ec03d2..5a56cc49 100644
--- a/packages/blitz/src/lib.rs
+++ b/packages/blitz/src/lib.rs
@@ -18,15 +18,10 @@ use blitz_shell::{
 
 #[cfg(feature = "net")]
 pub fn launch_url(url: &str) {
-    use reqwest::Client;
-    use url::Url;
-
-    const USER_AGENT: &str = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0";
-    println!("{}", url);
-
     // Assert that url is valid
+    println!("{}", url);
     let url = url.to_owned();
-    Url::parse(&url).expect("Invalid url");
+    url::Url::parse(&url).expect("Invalid url");
 
     // Turn on the runtime and enter it
     let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_multi_thread()
@@ -35,18 +30,7 @@ pub fn launch_url(url: &str) {
         .unwrap();
     let _guard = rt.enter();
 
-    let client = Client::new();
-    let html = rt.block_on(async {
-        client
-            .get(&url)
-            .header("User-Agent", USER_AGENT)
-            .send()
-            .await
-            .unwrap()
-            .text()
-            .await
-            .unwrap()
-    });
+    let html = rt.block_on(blitz_net::get_text(&url));
 
     launch_internal(
         &html,