diff --git a/update_checker.py b/update_checker.py
index 07667ccf40d15530d5d503dc0ae79f77b643c099..b7acde40677fdff23c43013d42ee8ac76bdbbd5c 100755
--- a/update_checker.py
+++ b/update_checker.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import pprint
 import requests
 import argparse
 import datetime
-MAC_URL = 'http://macvendors.co/api/%s'
 
 ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 ap.add_argument("--raw", type=argparse.FileType("r", encoding="utf-8"), required=True)
@@ -121,8 +120,6 @@ for download in allFirmwareDownloads:
         if currentRelease < r.release:
             print("%s (%s) %s -> %s Segment %i %s status %s @ %s" % (mac, filterNonAscii(hostname), currentRelease, r.release, r.segment, hardware_model, status, r.date))
     else:
-        #request = requests.get(MAC_URL % mac)
-        #pprint.pprint(request.json())
         # raw.json only contains data from 14 days - do not print message if we encounter older log entries
         download_ts = datetime.datetime.strptime(r.date, "%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z]")
         if (datetime.datetime.now(tz=datetime.timezone.utc) - download_ts) < datetime.timedelta(days=14):