diff --git a/src/apple.py b/src/apple.py
index 8c0a5802..81e38916 100644
--- a/src/apple.py
+++ b/src/apple.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import json
-import urllib.request
 import datetime
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import json
 import re
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
 
 URLS = [
     "https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222",  # latest
@@ -55,45 +55,45 @@ def parse_date(s):
 
 
 for url in URLS:
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
-        table = soup.find(id="tableWraper")
-        for tr in reversed(table.findAll("tr")[1:]):
-            td_list = tr.findAll("td")
-            version_text = td_list[0].get_text()
-            for key, regexes in CONFIG.items():
-                for regex in regexes:
-                    matches = re.findall(regex, version_text, re.MULTILINE)
-                    if matches:
-                        for version in matches:
-                            abs_date = None
-                            try:
-                                print("== %s" % version_text.strip())
-                                abs_date = parse_date(td_list[2].get_text())
-                                print_date = abs_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-                                # Only update the date if we are adding first time
-                                # or if the date is lower
-                                if version not in release_lists[key]:
-                                    release_lists[key][version] = abs_date
-                                    print("%s-%s: %s" % (key, version, print_date))
-                                elif release_lists[key][version] < abs_date:
-                                    print(
-                                        "%s-%s: %s [IGNORED]"
-                                        % (key, version, print_date)
-                                    )
-                                elif release_lists[key][version] > abs_date:
-                                    # This is a lower date, so we mark it with a bang
-                                    print(
-                                        "%s-%s: %s [UPDATED]"
-                                        % (key, version, print_date)
-                                    )
-                                    release_lists[key][version] = abs_date
-                            except ValueError as e:
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
+    table = soup.find(id="tableWraper")
+    for tr in reversed(table.findAll("tr")[1:]):
+        td_list = tr.findAll("td")
+        version_text = td_list[0].get_text()
+        for key, regexes in CONFIG.items():
+            for regex in regexes:
+                matches = re.findall(regex, version_text, re.MULTILINE)
+                if matches:
+                    for version in matches:
+                        abs_date = None
+                        try:
+                            print("== %s" % version_text.strip())
+                            abs_date = parse_date(td_list[2].get_text())
+                            print_date = abs_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+                            # Only update the date if we are adding first time
+                            # or if the date is lower
+                            if version not in release_lists[key]:
+                                release_lists[key][version] = abs_date
+                                print("%s-%s: %s" % (key, version, print_date))
+                            elif release_lists[key][version] < abs_date:
                                 print(
-                                    "%s-%s Failed to parse Date (%s)"
-                                    % (key, version, td_list[2].get_text())
+                                    "%s-%s: %s [IGNORED]"
+                                    % (key, version, print_date)
                                 )
-                                next
+                            elif release_lists[key][version] > abs_date:
+                                # This is a lower date, so we mark it with a bang
+                                print(
+                                    "%s-%s: %s [UPDATED]"
+                                    % (key, version, print_date)
+                                )
+                                release_lists[key][version] = abs_date
+                        except ValueError as e:
+                            print(
+                                "%s-%s Failed to parse Date (%s)"
+                                % (key, version, td_list[2].get_text())
+                            )
+                            next
 
 
 for k in CONFIG.keys():
diff --git a/src/common/endoflife.py b/src/common/endoflife.py
index f3afb708..93832372 100644
--- a/src/common/endoflife.py
+++ b/src/common/endoflife.py
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 import frontmatter
+import urllib.request
 
 from glob import glob
 from os import path
 
+# See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent.
+USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0'
 
-def list_products(method, products_filter=None, pathname = "website/products"):
+
+def list_products(method, products_filter=None, pathname="website/products"):
     """Return a list of products that are using the same given update method.
     """
     products_with_method = {}
@@ -25,3 +29,21 @@ def list_products(method, products_filter=None, pathname = "website/products"):
                     products_with_method[product_name] = configs
 
     return products_with_method
+
+
+def fetch_url(url, retry_count=2, timeout=5, data=None, headers=None, encoding='utf-8'):
+    last_exception = None
+
+    headers = {'User-Agent': USER_AGENT} | {} if headers is None else headers
+    request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers)
+
+    for retry in range(0, retry_count):
+        try:
+            resp = urllib.request.urlopen(request, data=data, timeout=timeout)
+            return resp.read().decode(encoding)
+        except Exception as e:
+            last_exception = e
+            print(f"Fetch of {url} failed (retry={retry}), got: " + str(e))
+            continue
+
+    raise last_exception
diff --git a/src/cos.py b/src/cos.py
index 301474f0..cab5d0ad 100644
--- a/src/cos.py
+++ b/src/cos.py
@@ -1,46 +1,31 @@
-import urllib.request
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-import re
 import json
+import re
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
 from datetime import datetime
 
 REGEX = r"^(cos-\d+-\d+-\d+-\d+)"
 
+
 def fetch_all_milestones():
     url = "https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/release-notes/"
-    # Google Docs website often returns SSL errors, retry the request in case of failures.
-    for i in range(0,10):
-        try:
-            with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-                soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
-                break
-        except Exception as e:
-            print("Retrying Request, got error: " + str(e))
-            continue
-    else:
-      raise Exception("Failed to fetch COS milestones")
-
+    # Retry as Google Docs often returns SSL errors.
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url, retry_count=10)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
     milestones = soup.find_all('td', text=re.compile(r'COS \d+ LTS'))
     return [m.text.split(' ')[1] for m in milestones]
 
+
 def fetch_milestone(channel):
     url = "https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/release-notes/m{}".format(channel)
-    # Google Docs website often returns SSL errors, retry the request in case of failures.
-    for i in range(0,5):
-        try:
-            with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-                return BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
-        except Exception as e:
-            print("Retrying Request")
-            continue
-    raise Exception("Failed to fetch COS milestone {}".format(channel))
+    # Retry as Google Docs often returns SSL errors.
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url, retry_count=10)
+    return BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
 
 
-"""
-Takes soup, and returns a dictionary of versions and their release dates
-"""
 def parse_soup_for_versions(soup):
-    """ Parse the soup """
+    """Takes soup, and returns a dictionary of versions and their release dates
+    """
     versions = {}
     for article in soup.find_all('article', class_='devsite-article'):
         def parse_date(d):
@@ -67,21 +52,23 @@ def parse_soup_for_versions(soup):
                     d = heading.find_previous('h2').get('data-text')
                     date = parse_date(d)
                 versions[version] = date
+                print("%s: %s" % (version, date))
 
     return versions
 
+
 def get_all_versions():
     all_versions = {}
     all_milestones = fetch_all_milestones()
+    print("::group::cos")
     for milestone in all_milestones:
         soup = fetch_milestone(milestone)
-        print("::group::COS - {}".format(milestone))
         versions = parse_soup_for_versions(soup)
         all_versions |= versions
-        print("::endgroup::")
-
+    print("::endgroup::")
     return all_versions
 
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     v = get_all_versions()
     with open('releases/cos.json', "w") as f:
diff --git a/src/distrowatch.py b/src/distrowatch.py
index 669ff6fe..7c3f3cc9 100644
--- a/src/distrowatch.py
+++ b/src/distrowatch.py
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
+import json
 import re
 import sys
-import json
-import urllib.request
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-from liquid import Template
 from common import endoflife
+from liquid import Template
 
 METHOD = 'distrowatch'
 DEFAULT_TAG_TEMPLATE = (  # Same as used in Ruby (update.rb)
@@ -28,15 +27,15 @@ def get_versions_from_headline(regex, headline, template):
 def fetch_releases(distrowatch_id, regex, template):
     releases = {}
     l_template = Template(template)
-    url = "https://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=%s" % distrowatch_id
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
-        for table in soup.select("td.News1>table.News"):
-            headline = table.select_one("td.NewsHeadline a[href]").get_text().strip()
-            date = table.select_one("td.NewsDate").get_text()
-            for v in get_versions_from_headline(regex, headline, l_template):
-                print("%s: %s" % (v, date))
-                releases[v] = date
+    url = f"https://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution={distrowatch_id}"
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
+    for table in soup.select("td.News1>table.News"):
+        headline = table.select_one("td.NewsHeadline a[href]").get_text().strip()
+        date = table.select_one("td.NewsDate").get_text()
+        for v in get_versions_from_headline(regex, headline, l_template):
+            print("%s: %s" % (v, date))
+            releases[v] = date
     return releases
 
 
diff --git a/src/eks.py b/src/eks.py
index 60c2f31e..0b1b3f63 100644
--- a/src/eks.py
+++ b/src/eks.py
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-import urllib.request
 import datetime
+import json
 import markdown
 import re
-import json
-from datetime import datetime
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
+from datetime import datetime
 
 URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/awsdocs/amazon-eks-user-guide/master/doc_source/platform-versions.md"
 REGEX = r"^(?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)$"
@@ -12,20 +12,23 @@ REGEX = r"^(?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)$"
 
 def parse_platforms_page():
     all_versions = {}
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(URL, data=None, timeout=5) as contents:
-        html = markdown.markdown(contents.read().decode("utf-8"), extensions=["tables"])
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(html, features="html5lib")
-        for tr in soup.findAll("tr"):
-            td = tr.find("td")
-            if td and re.match(REGEX, td.text):
-                data = tr.findAll("td")
-                date = data[-1].text
-                if len(date) > 0:
-                    d = datetime.strptime(date, "%B %d, %Y").strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-                    k8s_version = ".".join(data[0].text.split(".")[:-1])
-                    eks_version = data[1].text.replace(".", "-")
-                    version = "%s-%s" % (k8s_version, eks_version)
-                    all_versions[version] = d
+    print("::group::eks")
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(URL)
+    html = markdown.markdown(response, extensions=["tables"])
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, features="html5lib")
+    for tr in soup.findAll("tr"):
+        td = tr.find("td")
+        if td and re.match(REGEX, td.text):
+            data = tr.findAll("td")
+            date = data[-1].text
+            if len(date) > 0:
+                d = datetime.strptime(date, "%B %d, %Y").strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+                k8s_version = ".".join(data[0].text.split(".")[:-1])
+                eks_version = data[1].text.replace(".", "-")
+                version = "%s-%s" % (k8s_version, eks_version)
+                all_versions[version] = d
+                print("%s: %s" % (version, d))
+    print("::endgroup::")
     return all_versions
 
 
diff --git a/src/firefox.py b/src/firefox.py
index a3c59ddc..d4461f13 100644
--- a/src/firefox.py
+++ b/src/firefox.py
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
+import concurrent.futures
 import json
-from typing import Tuple
-from datetime import datetime
 import re
 import requests
-import urllib.request
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-import concurrent.futures
+from common import endoflife
+from datetime import datetime
+from typing import Tuple
 
 """Fetch Firefox versions with their dates from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/"""
 URL = "https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/"
@@ -107,22 +107,9 @@ def get_version_and_date(release_page: str, release_version: str) -> Tuple[str,
     raise UnsupportedReleasePageError("Unable to find version and date for %s" % release_page)
 
 def make_bs_request(url: str) -> BeautifulSoup:
-    """ Make a request to the given url and return a BeautifulSoup object """
-    last_exception = None
-    headers = {"user-agent": "mozilla"}
-
     # requests to www.mozilla.org often time out, retry in case of failures
-    for i in range(0, 5):
-        try:
-            req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers)
-            with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=5) as response:
-                return BeautifulSoup(response.read(), features="html5lib")
-        except TimeoutError as e:
-            last_exception = e
-            print(f"Request to {url} timed out, retrying ({i})...")
-            continue
-
-    raise last_exception
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url, timeout=10, retry_count=5)
+    return BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
 
 def fetch_releases():
     releases = {}
diff --git a/src/gke.py b/src/gke.py
index 2119eda7..841cf7d8 100644
--- a/src/gke.py
+++ b/src/gke.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-import urllib.request
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-import re
 import json
+import re
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
 from datetime import datetime
 
 # https://regex101.com/r/zPxBqT/1
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ REGEX = r"\d.\d+\.\d+-gke\.\d+"
 
 def fetch_channel(channel):
     url = "https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/release-notes-{}".format(channel)
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-        return BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+    return BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
 
 """
 Takes soup, and returns a dictionary of versions and their release dates
diff --git a/src/haproxy.py b/src/haproxy.py
index 4199024c..f82fa239 100644
--- a/src/haproxy.py
+++ b/src/haproxy.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import re
-import urllib.request
-
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
 
 """Fetch HAProxy versions with their dates from https://www.haproxy.org/download/.
 """
@@ -16,16 +15,13 @@ VERSION_REGEX = r"^(\d{4})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\s+:\s+(\d+\.\d+\.\d.?)$"
 def fetch_cycles():
     cycles = []
 
-    print("Fetching cycles")
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(
-        "https://www.haproxy.org/download/") as response:
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
-        for link in soup.select("a"):
-            m = re.match(CYCLE_REGEX, link.attrs["href"])
-            if m:
-                cycle = m.groups()[0]
-                cycles.append(cycle)
-                print(f"Found {cycle}")
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url('https://www.haproxy.org/download/')
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
+    for link in soup.select("a"):
+        m = re.match(CYCLE_REGEX, link.attrs["href"])
+        if m:
+            cycle = m.groups()[0]
+            cycles.append(cycle)
 
     # No changelog in https://www.haproxy.org/download/1.0/src
     cycles.remove("1.0")
@@ -38,14 +34,13 @@ def fetch_releases(cycles):
 
     for cycle in cycles:
         url = f"https://www.haproxy.org/download/{cycle}/src/CHANGELOG"
-        print(f"Fetching version from {url}")
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
-            for line in response:
-                m = re.match(VERSION_REGEX, line.decode("utf-8"))
-                if m:
-                    year, month, day, version = m.groups()
-                    date = f"{year}-{month}-{day}"
-                    releases[version] = date
+        response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+        for line in response.split('\n'):
+            m = re.match(VERSION_REGEX, line)
+            if m:
+                year, month, day, version = m.groups()
+                date = f"{year}-{month}-{day}"
+                releases[version] = date
 
     return releases
 
diff --git a/src/linuxkernel.py b/src/linuxkernel.py
index a82de136..9dd1b8ad 100644
--- a/src/linuxkernel.py
+++ b/src/linuxkernel.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-import re
 import json
-import urllib.request
-
-from datetime import datetime, timezone
+import re
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
 
 """Fetch Linux Kernel versions with their dates from
 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/refs/tags.
@@ -25,9 +24,8 @@ def parse_date(d):
 
 
 def make_bs_request(url):
-    req = urllib.request.Request(url)
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=5) as response:
-        return BeautifulSoup(response.read(), features="html5lib")
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+    return BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
 
 
 def fetch_releases():
diff --git a/src/maven.py b/src/maven.py
index 238ae07b..1c42b27d 100644
--- a/src/maven.py
+++ b/src/maven.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-import sys
-import json
-import urllib.request
 import datetime
+import json
 import re
+import sys
 from common import endoflife
 
 METHOD = "maven"
@@ -19,20 +18,8 @@ def valid_version(version):
 
 def fetch_json(group_id, artifact_id, start):
     url = f"https://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=g:{group_id}+AND+a:{artifact_id}&core=gav&rows=100&wt=json&start={start}"
-    last_exception = None
-
-    # search.maven.org often time out lately, retry the request in case of failures.
-    for i in range(0, 5):
-        try:
-            with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-                return json.load(response)
-        except Exception as e:
-            last_exception = e
-            message = getattr(e, 'message', repr(e)) # https://stackoverflow.com/a/45532289/374236
-            print(f"Error while requesting {url} ({message}), retrying ({i})...")
-            continue
-
-    raise last_exception
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url, retry_count=5)
+    return json.loads(response)
 
 
 def fetch_releases(package_identifier):
diff --git a/src/npm.py b/src/npm.py
index 9befb616..79ae13fc 100644
--- a/src/npm.py
+++ b/src/npm.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
+import json
 import re
 import sys
-import json
-import urllib.request
 from common import endoflife
 
 METHOD = "npm"
@@ -18,18 +17,18 @@ def fetch_releases(npm_id, regex):
         regex = [regex]
 
     url = f"https://registry.npmjs.org/{npm_id}"
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-        data = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
-        for version in data["time"]:
-            matches = False
-            for r in regex:
-                if re.match(r, version):
-                    matches = True
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+    data = json.loads(response)
+    for version in data["time"]:
+        matches = False
+        for r in regex:
+            if re.match(r, version):
+                matches = True
 
-            release_datetime = data["time"][version]
-            if matches and release_datetime:
-                releases[version] = release_datetime.split("T")[0]
-                print(f"{version}: {releases[version]}")
+        release_datetime = data["time"][version]
+        if matches and release_datetime:
+            releases[version] = release_datetime.split("T")[0]
+            print(f"{version}: {releases[version]}")
 
     return releases
 
diff --git a/src/palo-alto-networks.py b/src/palo-alto-networks.py
index c03b4644..60c7737c 100644
--- a/src/palo-alto-networks.py
+++ b/src/palo-alto-networks.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import json
-import urllib.request
 import datetime
+import json
 import re
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
 
 URL = "https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/services/support/end-of-life-announcements/end-of-life-summary"
 
@@ -15,33 +15,37 @@ ID_MAPPING = {
 
 def update_releases(html_identifier, file):
     versions = {}
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(URL, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
-        table = soup.find(id=html_identifier)
-        for tr in table.findAll("tr")[3:]:
-            td_list = tr.findAll("td")
-            version = (
-                td_list[0].get_text().strip().lower().replace(" ", "-").replace("*", "")
-            )
-            if file == "pan-xdr":
-                if "xdr" not in version:
-                    continue
-            version = version.removesuffix("-(cortex-xdr-agent)")
-            version = version.removesuffix("-(vm-series-only)")
-            version = version.removesuffix("-(panorama-only)")
-            if len(td_list) > 1 and version != "":
-                # Date formats differ between different products
-                try:
-                    month, date, year = td_list[1].get_text().split("/")
-                    abs_date = f"{year}-{month:0>2}-{date:0>2}"
-                except Exception:
-                    # A few dates have 1st, 2nd, 4th etc. Fix that:
-                    d = td_list[1].get_text()
-                    d = re.sub(r'(\w+) (\d{1,2})(?:\w{2}), (\d{4})', r'\1 \2, \3', d)
-                    date = datetime.datetime.strptime(d, "%B %d, %Y")
-                    abs_date = date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
 
-                versions[version] = abs_date
+    print(f"::group::{html_identifier}")
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(URL)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
+    table = soup.find(id=html_identifier)
+    for tr in table.findAll("tr")[3:]:
+        td_list = tr.findAll("td")
+        version = (
+            td_list[0].get_text().strip().lower().replace(" ", "-").replace("*", "")
+        )
+        if file == "pan-xdr":
+            if "xdr" not in version:
+                continue
+        version = version.removesuffix("-(cortex-xdr-agent)")
+        version = version.removesuffix("-(vm-series-only)")
+        version = version.removesuffix("-(panorama-only)")
+        if len(td_list) > 1 and version != "":
+            # Date formats differ between different products
+            try:
+                month, date, year = td_list[1].get_text().split("/")
+                abs_date = f"{year}-{month:0>2}-{date:0>2}"
+            except Exception:
+                # A few dates have 1st, 2nd, 4th etc. Fix that:
+                d = td_list[1].get_text()
+                d = re.sub(r'(\w+) (\d{1,2})(?:\w{2}), (\d{4})', r'\1 \2, \3', d)
+                date = datetime.datetime.strptime(d, "%B %d, %Y")
+                abs_date = date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+
+            versions[version] = abs_date
+            print("%s: %s" % (version, abs_date))
+    print("::endgroup::")
 
     with open("releases/%s.json" % file, "w") as f:
         f.write(json.dumps(versions, indent=2))
diff --git a/src/php.py b/src/php.py
index a16ff33e..4eb56f85 100644
--- a/src/php.py
+++ b/src/php.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import urllib.request
 import datetime
 import json
+from common import endoflife
 
 PHP_MAJOR_VERSIONS = [4, 5, 7, 8]
 
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ def parse_date(date_str):
 
 def fetch_versions(major_version):
     url = f"https://www.php.net/releases/index.php?json&max=-1&version={major_version}"
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-        data = json.loads(response.read())
-        for v in data:
-            data[v] = parse_date(data[v]["date"])
-            print(f"{v}: {data[v]}")
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+    data = json.loads(response)
+    for v in data:
+        data[v] = parse_date(data[v]["date"])
+        print(f"{v}: {data[v]}")
 
-        return data
+    return data
 
 
 with open("releases/php.json", "w") as f:
diff --git a/src/plesk.py b/src/plesk.py
index a4bbd1d8..8d6e099f 100644
--- a/src/plesk.py
+++ b/src/plesk.py
@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 import json
-from datetime import datetime
-import urllib.request
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
+from datetime import datetime
 
 URL = "https://docs.plesk.com/release-notes/obsidian/change-log"
 PRODUCT = "plesk"
 
 
 def make_bs_request(url):
-    req = urllib.request.Request(url)
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=5) as response:
-        return BeautifulSoup(response.read(), features="html5lib")
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+    return BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
 
 
 # Only 18.0.20.3 and later will be picked up :
diff --git a/src/pypi.py b/src/pypi.py
index 0d0f8e0a..c14f8acf 100644
--- a/src/pypi.py
+++ b/src/pypi.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
+import json
 import re
 import sys
-import json
-import urllib.request
-from datetime import datetime
 from common import endoflife
+from datetime import datetime
 
 METHOD = "pypi"
 DEFAULT_TAG_TEMPLATE = (  # Same as used in Ruby (update.rb)
@@ -19,18 +18,18 @@ def fetch_releases(pypi_id, regex):
         regex = [regex]
 
     url = "https://pypi.org/pypi/%s/json" % pypi_id
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as response:
-        data = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
-        for version in data["releases"]:
-            R = data["releases"][version]
-            matches = False
-            for r in regex:
-                if re.match(r, version):
-                    matches = True
-            if matches and R:
-                d = datetime.fromisoformat(R[0]["upload_time"]).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-                releases[version] = d
-                print("%s: %s" % (version, d))
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+    data = json.loads(response)
+    for version in data["releases"]:
+        R = data["releases"][version]
+        matches = False
+        for r in regex:
+            if re.match(r, version):
+                matches = True
+        if matches and R:
+            d = datetime.fromisoformat(R[0]["upload_time"]).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+            releases[version] = d
+            print("%s: %s" % (version, d))
 
     return releases
 
diff --git a/src/rds.py b/src/rds.py
index 0e179c78..e8e17d91 100644
--- a/src/rds.py
+++ b/src/rds.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import re
-import urllib.request
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-from datetime import datetime
 import json
+import re
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
+from datetime import datetime
 
 dbs = {
     "mysql": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/MySQL.Concepts.VersionMgmt.html",
@@ -18,24 +18,23 @@ for db, url in dbs.items():
     print(f"::group::{db}")
     releases = {}
 
-    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=5) as contents:
-        html = contents.read().decode("utf-8")
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(html, features="html5lib")
+    response = endoflife.fetch_url(url)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
 
-        for table in soup.find_all("table"):
-            for row in table.find_all("tr"):
-                columns = row.find_all("td")
+    for table in soup.find_all("table"):
+        for row in table.find_all("tr"):
+            columns = row.find_all("td")
 
-                # Must match both the 'Supported XXX minor versions' and
-                # 'Supported XXX major versions' to have correct release dates
-                if len(columns) > 3:
-                    r = r"(?P<v>\d+(?:\.\d+)*)" # https://regex101.com/r/BY1vwV/1
-                    m = re.search(r, columns[0].text.strip(), flags=re.IGNORECASE)
-                    if m:
-                        version = m.group("v")
-                        date = parse_date(columns[2].text.strip())
-                        print(f"{version} : {date}")
-                        releases[version] = date
+            # Must match both the 'Supported XXX minor versions' and
+            # 'Supported XXX major versions' to have correct release dates
+            if len(columns) > 3:
+                r = r"(?P<v>\d+(?:\.\d+)*)" # https://regex101.com/r/BY1vwV/1
+                m = re.search(r, columns[0].text.strip(), flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+                if m:
+                    version = m.group("v")
+                    date = parse_date(columns[2].text.strip())
+                    print(f"{version} : {date}")
+                    releases[version] = date
 
     print("::endgroup::")
     with open(f"releases/amazon-rds-{db.lower()}.json", "w") as f:
diff --git a/src/rhel.py b/src/rhel.py
index 8ce16dc5..150000fe 100644
--- a/src/rhel.py
+++ b/src/rhel.py
@@ -1,29 +1,31 @@
 import json
-import urllib.request
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 import re
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
 
 URL = "https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078"
 # https://regex101.com/r/877ibq/1
 regex = r"RHEL (?P<major>\d)(\. ?(?P<minor>\d+))?(( Update (?P<minor2>\d))| GA)?"
 
 versions = {}
-headers = {"user-agent": "mozilla"}
-req = urllib.request.Request(URL, headers=headers)
 
-with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=5) as response:
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
-    for tr in soup.findAll("tr"):
-        td_list = tr.findAll("td")
-        if len(td_list) > 0:
-            version = td_list[0].get_text()
-            m = re.match(regex, version.strip()).groupdict()
-            version = m["major"]
-            if m["minor"]:
-                version += ".%s" % m["minor"]
-            if m["minor2"]:
-                version += ".%s" % m["minor2"]
-            versions[version] = td_list[1].get_text()
+print("::group::rhel")
+response = endoflife.fetch_url(URL)
+soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
+for tr in soup.findAll("tr"):
+    td_list = tr.findAll("td")
+    if len(td_list) > 0:
+        version = td_list[0].get_text()
+        m = re.match(regex, version.strip()).groupdict()
+        version = m["major"]
+        if m["minor"]:
+            version += ".%s" % m["minor"]
+        if m["minor2"]:
+            version += ".%s" % m["minor2"]
+        date = td_list[1].get_text()
+        versions[version] = date
+        print("%s: %s" % (version, date))
+print("::endgroup::")
 
 with open("releases/redhat.json", "w") as f:
     f.write(json.dumps(versions, indent=2))
diff --git a/src/ros.py b/src/ros.py
index 21088d5c..b7feebba 100644
--- a/src/ros.py
+++ b/src/ros.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import json
-import urllib.request
 import datetime
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+import json
 import re
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from common import endoflife
 
 URL = "https://wiki.ros.org/Distributions"
 # https://regex101.com/r/c1ribd/1
@@ -10,27 +10,29 @@ regex = r"^ROS (?P<name>(\w| )+)"
 
 versions = {}
 
-with urllib.request.urlopen(URL, timeout=5) as response:
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
-    for tr in soup.findAll("tr"):
-        td_list = tr.findAll("td")
-        if len(td_list) > 0:
-            version = td_list[0].get_text()
+print("::group::ros")
+response = endoflife.fetch_url(URL)
+soup = BeautifulSoup(response, features="html5lib")
+for tr in soup.findAll("tr"):
+    td_list = tr.findAll("td")
+    if len(td_list) > 0:
+        version = td_list[0].get_text()
 
-            m = re.match(regex, version.strip())
-            if m:
-                version = td_list[0].findAll("a")[0]["href"][1:]
-                try:
-                    date = datetime.datetime.strptime(
-                        td_list[1].get_text().strip(), "%B %d, %Y"
-                    )
-                # The date is a suffix (May 23rd, 2020)
-                except Exception as e:
-                    x = td_list[1].get_text().split(",")
-                    date = datetime.datetime.strptime(x[0][:-2] + x[1], "%B %d %Y")
-                abs_date = date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-                versions[version] = abs_date
-                print("%s: %s" % (version, abs_date))
+        m = re.match(regex, version.strip())
+        if m:
+            version = td_list[0].findAll("a")[0]["href"][1:]
+            try:
+                date = datetime.datetime.strptime(
+                    td_list[1].get_text().strip(), "%B %d, %Y"
+                )
+            # The date is a suffix (May 23rd, 2020)
+            except Exception as e:
+                x = td_list[1].get_text().split(",")
+                date = datetime.datetime.strptime(x[0][:-2] + x[1], "%B %d %Y")
+            abs_date = date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+            versions[version] = abs_date
+            print("%s: %s" % (version, abs_date))
+print("::endgroup::")
 
 with open("releases/ros.json", "w") as f:
     f.write(json.dumps(versions, indent=2))
diff --git a/src/unrealircd.py b/src/unrealircd.py
index f23e5272..0a3d6da3 100644
--- a/src/unrealircd.py
+++ b/src/unrealircd.py
@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
-import mwparserfromhell
 import json
+import mwparserfromhell
 import re
-import urllib.request
+from common import endoflife
 
 URL = "https://www.unrealircd.org/docwiki/index.php?title=History_of_UnrealIRCd_releases&action=raw"
 REGEX = r"^(?:(\d+\.(?:\d+\.)*\d+))$"
 
-versions = {}
-with urllib.request.urlopen(URL) as response:
-    text = response.read()
-    wikicode = mwparserfromhell.parse(text)
-    for tr in wikicode.ifilter_tags(matches=lambda node: node.tag == "tr"):
-        items = tr.contents.filter_tags(matches=lambda node: node.tag == "td")
-        if len(items) >= 2:
-            maybe_version = items[0].__strip__()
-            if re.match(REGEX, maybe_version):
-                maybe_date = items[1].__strip__()
-                if re.match(r"\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}", maybe_date):
-                    versions[maybe_version] = maybe_date
+print("::group::unrealircd")
+response = endoflife.fetch_url(URL)
+wikicode = mwparserfromhell.parse(response)
 
+versions = {}
+for tr in wikicode.ifilter_tags(matches=lambda node: node.tag == "tr"):
+    items = tr.contents.filter_tags(matches=lambda node: node.tag == "td")
+    if len(items) >= 2:
+        maybe_version = items[0].__strip__()
+        if re.match(REGEX, maybe_version):
+            maybe_date = items[1].__strip__()
+            if re.match(r"\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}", maybe_date):
+                versions[maybe_version] = maybe_date
+                print("%s: %s" % (maybe_version, maybe_date))
+print("::endgroup::")
 
 with open("releases/unrealircd.json", "w") as f:
     f.write(json.dumps(versions, indent=2))