diff --git a/lib/IDS/DeReKoVecs/Read.pm b/lib/IDS/DeReKoVecs/Read.pm
index f63b8c8..4887210 100644
--- a/lib/IDS/DeReKoVecs/Read.pm
+++ b/lib/IDS/DeReKoVecs/Read.pm
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use utf8;
 package IDS::DeReKoVecs::Read;
+use LWP::Simple;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Config;
@@ -25,8 +26,16 @@
 use Mojo::JSON qw(decode_json encode_json to_json);
 use Exporter qw(import);
 
-our @EXPORT = qw(init_net load_sprofiles getCollocationAssociation getClassicCollocatorsCached getSimilarProfiles getSimilarProfilesCached getBiggestMergedDifferences filter_garbage get_neighbours getWordNumber dump_vecs dump_for_numpy cos_similarity_as_json);
+our @EXPORT = qw(init_net load_sprofiles getDowntimeCalendar getCollocationAssociation getClassicCollocatorsCached getSimilarProfiles getSimilarProfilesCached getBiggestMergedDifferences filter_garbage get_neighbours getWordNumber dump_vecs dump_for_numpy cos_similarity_as_json);
 
+sub getDowntimeCalendar {
+  my ($url) = @_;
+  if ($url =~ m/^\s*$/) {
+    return "";
+  }
+  my $calendar = LWP::Simple::get($url);
+  return $calendar;
+}
 
 sub getCollocationAssociation {
   my ($c, $word, $collocate) = @_;