diff --git a/wikipedia b/wikipedia
index 5866e59..f9b695b 100755
--- a/wikipedia
+++ b/wikipedia
@@ -2,24 +2,28 @@
 import requests
 import sys
 import textwrap
+try:
+    from simplejson.errors import JSONDecodeError
+except ImportError:
+    from json.decoder import JSONDecodeError
 
 # Fetch JSON from url and run it through transform, pretty printing errors
 # and the data worked on as exhaustively as possible.
 def json_query(url, transform, params={}):
     try:
         result = requests.get(url, params)
-    except ConnectionError:
+    except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
         print("Network connection error.")
         sys.exit(1)
     try:
         data = result.json()
     except JSONDecodeError as err:
-        print('Error when decoding JSON:\nFrom endpoint ' + url + ':\n' + err + '\n' + result + '\n')
+        print('Error when decoding JSON:\nFrom endpoint ' + url + ':\n' + str(err) + '\n' + str(result) + '\n')
         sys.exit(1)
     try:
         return transform(data)
     except (IndexError, KeyError) as err:
-        print('Error when traversing JSON:\nFrom endpoint ' + url + ':\n' + err)
+        print('Error when traversing JSON:\nFrom endpoint ' + url + ':\n' + str(err))
         pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=2).pprint(data)
         sys.exit(1)