diff --git a/hammond-data/Cargo.toml b/hammond-data/Cargo.toml
index de53500..8d97eef 100644
--- a/hammond-data/Cargo.toml
+++ b/hammond-data/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,24 +4,13 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["Jordan Petridis <jordanpetridis@protonmail.com>"]
 
 [dependencies]
-rfc822_sanitizer = "0.3.0"
 rayon = "0.8.2"
-regex = "0.2"
 error-chain = "0.11.0"
-structopt = "0.1.0"
-structopt-derive = "0.1.0"
 log = "0.3.8"
 loggerv = "0.3.0"
 reqwest = "0.7.3"
-hyper = "0.11.2"
 diesel = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["sqlite", "deprecated-time", "chrono"] }
 diesel_codegen = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["sqlite"] }
-time = "0.1.38"
 xdg = "2.1.0"
 lazy_static = "0.2.8"
-chrono = "0.4.0"
-rss = { version = "1.1.0", features = ["from_url"]}
-# overide diesel's dependancy that would otherwise turn a dotenv feature of
-# that rss depends upon
-dotenv = "*"
 
diff --git a/hammond-data/src/lib.rs b/hammond-data/src/lib.rs
index 2fe0501..46ca47a 100644
--- a/hammond-data/src/lib.rs
+++ b/hammond-data/src/lib.rs
@@ -15,14 +15,8 @@ extern crate diesel;
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate diesel_codegen;
 
-extern crate chrono;
-extern crate hyper;
 extern crate rayon;
-extern crate regex;
 extern crate reqwest;
-extern crate rfc822_sanitizer;
-extern crate rss;
-extern crate time;
 extern crate xdg;
 
 pub mod dbqueries;
@@ -31,33 +25,13 @@ pub mod schema;
 
 pub mod errors {
 
-    use reqwest;
-    use rss;
-    use chrono;
-    use hyper;
-    use time;
     use diesel::migrations::RunMigrationsError;
     use diesel::result;
-    use regex;
-
-    use std::io;
-    // use std::option;
-    // use std::sync;
 
     error_chain! {
         foreign_links {
-            ReqError(reqwest::Error);
-            IoError(io::Error);
-            Log(::log::SetLoggerError);
             MigrationError(RunMigrationsError);
-            RSSError(rss::Error);
             DieselResultError(result::Error);
-            ChronoError(chrono::ParseError);
-            DurationError(time::OutOfRangeError);
-            HyperError(hyper::error::Error);
-            RegexError(regex::Error);
-            // NoneError(option::NoneError);
-            // MutexPoison(sync::PoisonError);
         }
     }
 }
@@ -109,6 +83,7 @@ pub fn init() -> Result<()> {
 }
 
 pub fn run_migration_on(connection: &SqliteConnection) -> Result<()> {
+    info!("Running DB Migrations...");
     embedded_migrations::run_with_output(connection, &mut std::io::stdout())?;
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/hammond-data/src/models.rs b/hammond-data/src/models.rs
index d0fd6e9..c2b1125 100644
--- a/hammond-data/src/models.rs
+++ b/hammond-data/src/models.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 use reqwest;
-use rss::Channel;
 use diesel::SaveChangesDsl;
 use SqliteConnection;
 use reqwest::header::{ETag, LastModified};
diff --git a/other/src/downloader.rs b/other/src/downloader.rs
index ba4f88c..08281a5 100644
--- a/other/src/downloader.rs
+++ b/other/src/downloader.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use std::fs::{rename, DirBuilder, File};
 use std::io::{BufWriter, Read, Write};
 use std::path::Path;
 
-use hammond_data::errors::*;
+use errors::*;
 use hammond_data::dbqueries;
 
 // Adapted from https://github.com/mattgathu/rget .
diff --git a/other/src/errors.rs b/other/src/errors.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f989c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/other/src/errors.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+use reqwest;
+use rss;
+use hyper;
+use diesel::result;
+use hammond_data;
+
+use std::io;
+
+error_chain! {
+    foreign_links {
+        ReqError(reqwest::Error);
+        IoError(io::Error);
+        Log(::log::SetLoggerError);
+        RSSError(rss::Error);
+        DieselResultError(result::Error);
+        HyperError(hyper::error::Error);
+        HamDBError(hammond_data::errors::Error);
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/other/src/feedparser.rs b/other/src/feedparser.rs
index 672747a..29c7944 100644
--- a/other/src/feedparser.rs
+++ b/other/src/feedparser.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use rss::{Channel, Item};
 use rfc822_sanitizer::parse_from_rfc2822_with_fallback;
 
 use hammond_data::models;
-use hammond_data::errors::*;
+use errors::*;
 
 pub fn parse_podcast(chan: &Channel, source_id: i32) -> Result<models::NewPodcast> {
     let title = chan.title().to_owned();
diff --git a/other/src/index_feed.rs b/other/src/index_feed.rs
index e5d7c73..7beb575 100644
--- a/other/src/index_feed.rs
+++ b/other/src/index_feed.rs
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 
 use hammond_data::schema;
 use hammond_data::dbqueries;
-use hammond_data::errors::*;
 use hammond_data::models::*;
+
+use errors::*;
 use feedparser;
 
 fn index_source(con: &SqliteConnection, foo: &NewSource) -> Result<()> {
diff --git a/other/src/lib.rs b/other/src/lib.rs
index 98e2363..a329db0 100644
--- a/other/src/lib.rs
+++ b/other/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#![feature(use_extern_macros)]
+#![recursion_limit = "1024"]
 
 extern crate diesel;
 extern crate hammond_data;
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ extern crate rayon;
 extern crate reqwest;
 extern crate rfc822_sanitizer;
 extern crate rss;
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate error_chain;
 
 pub mod feedparser;
 pub mod downloader;
 pub mod index_feed;
+pub mod errors;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/other/src/main.rs b/other/src/main.rs
index e44ab9f..6edf81e 100644
--- a/other/src/main.rs
+++ b/other/src/main.rs
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ extern crate hammond_data;
 extern crate other;
 
 use structopt::StructOpt;
-use hammond_data::errors::*;
 use hammond_data::dbqueries;
+use other::errors::*;
 use other::downloader;
 use other::index_feed;