diff --git a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
index 8d26c258f3..238a976c0e 100644
--- a/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
+++ b/tools/generate-tempest-plugins-list.py
@@ -26,7 +26,12 @@
 import json
 import re
 
-import requests
+try:
+    # For Python 3.0 and later
+    import urllib
+except ImportError:
+    # Fall back to Python 2's urllib2
+    import urllib2 as urllib
 
 url = 'https://review.openstack.org/projects/'
 
@@ -49,21 +54,23 @@ def is_in_openstack_namespace(proj):
 
 
 def has_tempest_plugin(proj):
-    if proj.startswith('openstack/deb-'):
-        return False
-    r = requests.get(
-        "https://git.openstack.org/cgit/%s/plain/setup.cfg" % proj)
+    try:
+        r = urllib.urlopen("https://git.openstack.org/cgit/%s/plain/setup.cfg"
+                           % proj)
+    except urllib.HTTPError as err:
+        if err.code == 404:
+            return False
     p = re.compile('^tempest\.test_plugins', re.M)
-    if p.findall(r.text):
+    if p.findall(r.read()):
         return True
     else:
         False
 
-r = requests.get(url)
+r = urllib.urlopen(url)
 # Gerrit prepends 4 garbage octets to the JSON, in order to counter
 # cross-site scripting attacks.  Therefore we must discard it so the
 # json library won't choke.
-projects = sorted(filter(is_in_openstack_namespace, json.loads(r.text[4:])))
+projects = sorted(filter(is_in_openstack_namespace, json.loads(r.read()[4:])))
 
 found_plugins = list(filter(has_tempest_plugin, projects))