diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 560024d..3a746b9 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,13 +19,11 @@ serde_yaml = "0.9.21"
 clap = {version = "4.3.8", features = ["derive", "cargo"]}
 thiserror = "1.0.40"
 rand = "0.8.5"
-isahc = "1.7"
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.5", default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls"] }
 phf = { version = "0.11", features = ["macros"] }
 # linked list to store the containers in the order they appear in the docker-compose.yaml
 indexmap = { version = "2.0.0", features = ["serde"] }
-
-# https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl/issues/1021
-openssl = { version = "0.10", features = ["vendored"] }
+tokio = { version = "1", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 
 [profile.release]
 debug = false
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/file_utils.rs b/src/file_utils.rs
index 90f2ccd..2c271b3 100644
--- a/src/file_utils.rs
+++ b/src/file_utils.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 use std::io::Read;
 use std::{fs::File, process::exit};
 
-use isahc::ReadResponseExt;
-
 use serde_yaml::{Mapping, Value};
 
 use crate::exporters::excalidraw_config::DEFAULT_CONFIG;
@@ -30,8 +28,8 @@ pub fn get_excalidraw_config(file_path: &str) -> ExcalidrawConfig {
     }
 }
 
-pub fn get_docker_compose_content(file_path: &str) -> Mapping {
-    let file_content = match get_file_content(file_path) {
+pub async fn get_docker_compose_content(file_path: &str) -> Mapping {
+    let file_content = match get_file_content(file_path).await {
         Ok(content) => content,
         Err(err) => {
             println!("{}", err);
@@ -81,10 +79,10 @@ fn read_yaml_file(file_path: &str) -> Result<String, ExcalidockerError> {
 
 /// Get file content as a String.
 /// Both remote (f.e. from Github) and local files are supported
-fn get_file_content(file_path: &str) -> Result<String, ExcalidockerError> {
+async fn get_file_content(file_path: &str) -> Result<String, ExcalidockerError> {
     if file_path.starts_with("http") {
         let url = rewrite_github_url(file_path);
-        let mut response = match isahc::get(url) {
+        let response = match reqwest::get(url).await {
             Ok(rs) => rs,
             Err(err) => {
                 return Err(RemoteFileFailedRead {
@@ -93,7 +91,7 @@ fn get_file_content(file_path: &str) -> Result<String, ExcalidockerError> {
                 })
             }
         };
-        match response.text() {
+        match response.text().await {
             Ok(data) => Ok(data),
             Err(err) => Err(RemoteFileFailedRead {
                 path: file_path.to_string(),
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 7a44800..d4626aa 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ struct RectangleStruct {
     pub bound_elements: Vec<BoundElement>,
 }
 
-fn main() {
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() {
     let cli = Cli::parse();
     let excalidraw_config: ExcalidrawConfig =
         file_utils::get_excalidraw_config(cli.config_path.as_str());
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ fn main() {
 
     let input_path = &cli.input_path.unwrap();
     let input_filepath = input_path.as_str();
-    let docker_compose_yaml = file_utils::get_docker_compose_content(input_filepath);
+    let docker_compose_yaml = file_utils::get_docker_compose_content(input_filepath).await;
 
     let alignment_mode = excalidraw_config.alignment.mode.as_str();
     let (x_margin, y_margin, x_alignment_factor, y_alignment_factor) = margins(alignment_mode);