diff --git a/hardware/Rakefile b/hardware/Rakefile
index 1179c6b..8f59770 100644
--- a/hardware/Rakefile
+++ b/hardware/Rakefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Rakefile to manage gEDA hardware projects
 require 'rake/clean'
 require 'csv' # to export BOM and costs
 require 'open-uri' # to parse URLs
+require 'open_uri_redirections' # allow redirections
 require 'nokogiri' # to scrape sites
 require 'net/http' # to ask octopart
 require 'json' # to parse octopart reponses
@@ -242,7 +243,7 @@ def scrape_farnell(sku)
   # get stock
   stock_doc = doc.xpath('//td[@class="prodDetailAvailability"]')[0]
   if stock_doc then
-    to_return[:stock] = stock_doc.text.lines[-1].to_i
+    to_return[:stock] = stock_doc.text.lines.to_a[-1].to_i
   else # when several stocks are available
     stock_doc = doc.xpath('//div[@class="stockDetail"]')[0]
     to_return[:stock] = stock_doc.text.gsub(".","").scan(/\d+/)[-1].to_i # the last match should be for EU
@@ -262,8 +263,8 @@ end
 def scrape_mouser(sku)
   to_return = {stock: nil, currency: "EUR", prices: []}
   # get page
-  url = "http://de.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?R=0virtualkey0virtualkey#{sku}"
-  doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(URI.escape(url)))
+  url = "http://www.mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?R=0virtualkey0virtualkey#{sku}"
+  doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(URI.escape(url),:allow_redirections => :all))
   # get stock
   stock_doc = doc.xpath('//table[contains(@id,"availability")]/tr/td')[0]
   to_return[:stock] = stock_doc.text.gsub(".","").to_i