diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d620e3c41..0a8f27b1a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ os:
   - linux
 
 env:
+  - PIP_DATE=2014-07-01
+  - PIP_DATE=2014-10-01
   - PIP_DATE=2015-01-01
+  - PIP_DATE=2015-04-01
+  - PIP_DATE=2015-07-01
+  - PIP_DATE=2015-10-01
 
 install:
   - python pip-date.py $PIP_DATE pip setuptools wheel six
diff --git a/pip-date.py b/pip-date.py
index adfe6b252..62e34cb70 100644
--- a/pip-date.py
+++ b/pip-date.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 from __future__ import print_function
-import urllib
 import json
 import re
 import sys
@@ -8,12 +7,17 @@ from bisect import bisect
 from datetime import datetime
 from datetime import timedelta
 
+try:
+    from urllib.request import urlopen
+except ImportError:
+    from urllib import urlopen
+
 from pip.commands.install import InstallCommand
 
 
 def get_releases(package_name):
     url = 'https://pypi.python.org/pypi/%s/json' % package_name
-    return json.load(urllib.urlopen(url))['releases']
+    return json.loads(urlopen(url).read().decode('utf8'))['releases']
 
 
 def parse_iso8601(s):