diff --git a/crawler.py b/crawler.py
index 624b36f..3004bf7 100644
--- a/crawler.py
+++ b/crawler.py
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ def group_by_party(bios):
 
 def get_links_and_names():
     response = requests.get(BUNDESTAG_URL)
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, features="html.parser")
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, features="html.parser")
     links = [a.get("href") for a in soup.find_all("a")]
     names = [a.text.strip().split("\n\n\n") for a in soup.find_all("a")]
 
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ def get_bio(url, name, sleep_for):
     party = party.replace("\n\xa0*", " (ausgeschieden)")
     print(f"Getting {url} for {name[1]} {name[0]}")
     response = request_handle_rate_limit(url)
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, features="html.parser")
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, features="html.parser")
     intro_info = soup.find(class_="m-biography__introInfo")
     job_elem = intro_info.find("span") if intro_info else None
     job = job_elem.text if job_elem else None
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ def get_functions(elem):
 def parse_speech(page):
     if not page:
         return None
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, features="html.parser")
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, features="html.parser")
     infos = [s.text.strip() for s in soup.find_all(class_="m-biography__speechTitle")]
     titles = [
         title.text.strip()
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ def parse_speech(page):
 def parse_vote(page):
     if not page:
         return None
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, features="html.parser")
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, features="html.parser")
     rows = soup.find_all("tr")[1:]
     parsed = []
     for row in rows: