diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 38d05a9..616f46a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ tweepy==4.12.1
 urllib3==1.26.13
 jsonschema==3.2.0
 six==1.16.0
-crc16=0.1.1
-python-redis=0.3.0
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+async-timeout=4.0.2
+redis=4.4.2
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diff --git a/src/main.py b/src/main.py
index 02c7402..806bdb7 100644
--- a/src/main.py
+++ b/src/main.py
@@ -24,21 +24,21 @@ class Connector():
         syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "Loading Twitter API connector...")
 
         return tweepy.Client(
-            bearer_token=str(dbconn.hget("api", "bearer")),
-            consumer_key=str(dbconn.hget("api", "consumer_key")),
-            consumer_secret=str(dbconn.hget("api", "consumer_secret"))
-            access_token=str(dbconn.hget("api", "access_token")),
-            access_token_secret=str(dbconn.hget("api","access_token_secret"))
+            bearer_token=dbconn.hget("api", "bearer").decode("utf-8"),
+            consumer_key=dbconn.hget("api", "consumer_key").decode("utf-8"),
+            consumer_secret=dbconn.hget("api", "consumer_secret").decode("utf-8"),
+            access_token=dbconn.hget("api", "access_token").decode("utf-8"),
+            access_token_secret=dbconn.hget("api","access_token_secret").decode("utf-8")
         )
     
     def get_reply_bank(self):
-        return json.loads(self.dbconn.get('reply_bank'))
+        return json.loads(self.dbconn.get('reply_bank').decode("utf-8"))
     
     def get_victims(self):
-        return json.loads(self.dbconn.get('reply_bank')).victims
+        return json.loads(self.dbconn.get('reply_bank').decode("utf-8")).victims
     
     def get_bearer(self):
-        return str(self.dbconn.hget("api", "bearer"))
+        return self.dbconn.hget("api", "bearer").decode("utf-8")
 
 def main():
     syslog.syslog(syslog.LOG_INFO, "BOT-YAM - VERSION 2.1.2 >>>>")