diff --git a/apiserver/feed.py b/apiserver/feed.py
index 5f42476..1014147 100644
--- a/apiserver/feed.py
+++ b/apiserver/feed.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ logging.basicConfig(
 
 import requests
 
-from feeds import hackernews, reddit
+from feeds import hackernews, reddit, tildes
 
 READ_API = 'http://127.0.0.1:33843'
 
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ def list():
     feed = []
     feed += [(x, 'hackernews') for x in hackernews.feed()]
     feed += [(x, 'reddit') for x in reddit.feed()]
+    feed += [(x, 'tildes') for x in tildes.feed()]
     return feed
 
 def get_article(url):
@@ -32,6 +33,8 @@ def update_story(story):
         res = hackernews.story(story['ref'])
     elif story['source'] == 'reddit':
         res = reddit.story(story['ref'])
+    elif story['source'] == 'tildes':
+        res = tildes.story(story['ref'])
     else:
         return
 
diff --git a/apiserver/feeds/tildes.py b/apiserver/feeds/tildes.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20c3ac9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apiserver/feeds/tildes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+import logging
+logging.basicConfig(
+        format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
+        level=logging.INFO)
+
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from datetime import datetime
+
+USER_AGENT = 'qotnews scraper (github:tannercollin)'
+
+API_TOPSTORIES = lambda x: 'https://tildes.net'
+API_ITEM = lambda x : 'https://tildes.net/~qotnews/{}/'.format(x)
+
+SITE_LINK = lambda x : 'https://tildes.net/~qotnews/{}/'.format(x)
+SITE_AUTHOR_LINK = lambda x : 'https://tildes.net/user/{}'.format(x)
+
+def api(route, ref=None):
+    try:
+        headers = {'User-Agent': USER_AGENT}
+        r = requests.get(route(ref), headers=headers, timeout=5)
+        if r.status_code != 200:
+            raise
+        return r.text
+    except BaseException as e:
+        logging.error('Problem hitting tildes website: {}'.format(str(e)))
+        return False
+
+def feed():
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(api(API_TOPSTORIES), features='html.parser')
+    articles = soup.find('ol', class_='topic-listing').findAll('article')
+    return [x['id'].split('-')[1] for x in articles][:30] or []
+
+def unix(date_str):
+    return int(datetime.strptime(date_str, '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ').timestamp())
+
+def comment(i):
+    i = i.article
+    c = {}
+    c['author'] = str(i.find('a', class_='link-user').string)
+    c['score'] = 1
+    c['date'] = unix(i.find('time')['datetime'])
+    c['text'] = i.find('div', class_='comment-text').encode_contents().decode()
+    c['comments'] = [comment(j) for j in i.find('ol', class_='comment-tree').findAll('li', recursive=False)] if i.ol else []
+    return c
+
+def story(ref):
+    html = api(API_ITEM, ref)
+    if not html: return False
+
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, features='html.parser')
+    a = soup.find('article', class_='topic-full')
+    h = a.find('header')
+
+    s = {}
+    s['author'] = str(h.find('a', class_='link-user').string)
+    s['author_link'] = SITE_AUTHOR_LINK(s['author'])
+    s['score'] = int(h.find('span', class_='topic-voting-votes').string)
+    s['date'] = unix(h.find('time')['datetime'])
+    s['title'] = str(h.h1.string)
+    s['link'] = SITE_LINK(ref)
+    ud = a.find('div', class_='topic-full-link')
+    s['url'] = ud.a['href'] if ud else s['link']
+    s['comments'] = [comment(i) for i in a.find('ol', id='comments').findAll('li', recursive=False)]
+    ch = a.find('header', class_='topic-comments-header')
+    s['num_comments'] = int(ch.h2.string.split(' ')[0]) if ch else 0
+
+    td = a.find('div', class_='topic-full-text')
+    if td:
+        s['text'] = td.encode_contents().decode()
+
+    return s
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print(feed())
+    normal = story('gxt')
+    print(normal)
+    no_comments = story('gxr')
+    print(no_comments)
+    self_post = story('gsb')
+    print(self_post)
+
+    # make sure there's no self-reference
+    import copy
+    for x in [normal, no_comments, self_post]:
+        _ = copy.deepcopy(x)
diff --git a/apiserver/server.py b/apiserver/server.py
index 2af6b74..7fc9141 100644
--- a/apiserver/server.py
+++ b/apiserver/server.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ cors = CORS(flask_app)
 @flask_app.route('/')
 def index():
     front_page = [news_cache[news_ref_to_id[ref]] for ref in news_list]
-    front_page = [copy.deepcopy(x) for x in front_page if 'title' in x]
+    front_page = [copy.copy(x) for x in front_page if 'title' in x]
     for story in front_page:
         if 'comments' in story: story.pop('comments')
         if 'text' in story: story.pop('text')