Removed requests dependency

setup.py

@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ setup(
         "beautifulsoup4>=4.3.2",
         "lxml>=3.3.0",
         "BeautifulSoup==3.2.1",  # django-compressor gets confused if we have lxml but not BS3 installed
-        "requests==2.2.1",
     ],
     zip_safe=False,
 )

wagtail/wagtailembeds/embeds.py

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import sys
 from importlib import import_module
-import requests
 from django.conf import settings
 from datetime import datetime
 from django.utils import six
 from wagtail.wagtailembeds.oembed_providers import get_oembed_provider
 from wagtail.wagtailembeds.models import Embed
+import urllib2, urllib
+import json
 
 
 class EmbedNotFoundException(Exception): pass
@@ -91,10 +92,13 @@ def oembed(url, max_width=None):
         params['maxwidth'] = max_width
 
     # Perform request
-    r = requests.get(provider, params=params)
-    if r.status_code != 200:
+    request = urllib2.Request(provider + '?' + urllib.urlencode(params))
+    request.add_header('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')
+    try:
+        r = urllib2.urlopen(request)
+    except urllib2.URLError:
         raise EmbedNotFoundException
-    oembed = r.json()
+    oembed = json.loads(r.read())
 
     # Convert photos into HTML
     if oembed['type'] == 'photo':