diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 83d490f..cb1f113 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Description: Binding to Funz <https://funz.github.io/> parametric computing envi
     Also provide function to deal with Funz setup (eg. install plugin/binding to simulation software, algorithms, ...).
 License: Apache License (>= 2)
 Encoding: UTF-8
-Imports: rJava (>= 1.0-0), Rserve (>= 1.8), xml2, utils, foreach, parallel, processx, gh
+Imports: rJava (>= 1.0-0), Rserve (>= 1.8), xml2, utils, foreach, parallel, processx, curl, jsonlite
 SystemRequirements: Java (>= 8)
 URL: https://github.com/Funz/Funz.R
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
diff --git a/R/install.R b/R/install.R
index 39e31c3..a8d7de7 100644
--- a/R/install.R
+++ b/R/install.R
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ installed.Models <- function() {
 #' }
 available.Models <- function(refresh_repo = F) {
   if (refresh_repo | any(is.na(.github_repos)))
-      .github_repos <- gh::gh("/orgs/Funz/repos",.token=NA, per_page=100)
+      .github_repos <- jsonlite::fromJSON(readLines(curl::curl("https://api.github.com/orgs/Funz/repos?per_page=100")))
+                       # not working behind some proxy: gh::gh("/orgs/Funz/repos",.token=NA, per_page=100)
 
   gsub("plugin-","",
        unlist(lapply(.github_repos,
@@ -270,7 +271,8 @@ installed.Designs <- function() {
 #' }
 available.Designs <- function(refresh_repo = F) {
   if (refresh_repo | any(is.na(.github_repos)))
-    .github_repos <- gh::gh("/orgs/Funz/repos",.token=NA, per_page=100)
+    .github_repos <- jsonlite::fromJSON(readLines(curl::curl("https://api.github.com/orgs/Funz/repos?per_page=100")))
+                      # not working behind some proxy: gh::gh("/orgs/Funz/repos",.token=NA, per_page=100)
 
   gsub("algorithm-","",
        unlist(lapply(.github_repos,