diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4f7c4ed..715f29c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -63,8 +63,9 @@ numpy >= 1.18.5
 easydict >= 1.7
 appdirs >= 1.4.4
 tqdm >= 4.64.1
-wget >= 3.2
 networkx >= 2.8.8
+aiohttp
+async-timeout
 ```
   
 ## Available Graph Matching Solvers
diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index cdf54f1..d9affdf 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ sphinx-gallery==0.11.1
 matplotlib
 networkx
 scikit-learn
-wget
+requests
 networkx==2.8.8
+async-timeout
+aiohttp
 pygmtools
diff --git a/pygmtools/utils.py b/pygmtools/utils.py
index 277989f..b1595aa 100644
--- a/pygmtools/utils.py
+++ b/pygmtools/utils.py
@@ -23,11 +23,13 @@
 import shutil
 from tqdm.auto import tqdm
 import inspect
-import wget
 import numpy as np
 import pygmtools
 import networkx as nx
 import urllib.request
+import asyncio
+import aiohttp
+import async_timeout
 
 NOT_IMPLEMENTED_MSG = \
     'The backend function for {} is not implemented. ' \
@@ -1225,6 +1227,13 @@ def download(filename, url, md5=None, retries=5, to_cache=True):
     else:
         raise ValueError("The url should be string or list of string.")
         
+async def _asyncdownload(filename, url):
+    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
+        async with async_timeout.timeout(120):
+            async with session.get(url) as response:
+                with open(filename, 'wb') as file:
+                    async for data in response.content.iter_chunked(512):
+                        file.write(data)
         
 def _download(filename, url, md5, retries, to_cache=True):
     if retries <= 0:
@@ -1249,7 +1258,7 @@ def _download(filename, url, md5, retries, to_cache=True):
                 return download(filename, url, md5, retries - 1)
         elif retries % 3 == 2:
             try:
-                wget.download(url,out=filename)
+                asyncio.run(_asyncdownload(filename, url))
             except:
                 return _download(filename, url, md5, retries - 1)
         else:
@@ -1529,4 +1538,4 @@ def to_graphml(adj_matrix, filename, backend=None):
                    [0.15422904, 0.64656912, 0.93219422, 0.784769  ]])            
     """
     nx.write_graphml(to_networkx(adj_matrix, backend), filename)
-    
\ No newline at end of file
+    
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3aa9879..8a47a53 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def get_property(prop, project):
 VERSION = get_property('__version__', NAME)
 REQUIRED = [
      'requests>=2.25.1', 'scipy>=1.4.1', 'Pillow>=7.2.0', 'numpy>=1.18.5', 'easydict>=1.7', 'appdirs>=1.4.4', 'tqdm>=4.64.1', 
-     'wget>=3.2', 'networkx>=2.8.8'
+     'async-timeout','aiohttp','networkx>=2.8.8'
 ]
 EXTRAS = {}
 
diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
index a1b9cfe..8b06bf0 100644
--- a/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ appdirs>=1.4.4
 tensorflow==2.9.3
 distro
 cython
-wget
+aiohttp
+async-timeout
 networkx==2.8.8
 
diff --git a/tests/requirements_win_mac.txt b/tests/requirements_win_mac.txt
index 5b0fcd8..e1f906e 100644
--- a/tests/requirements_win_mac.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements_win_mac.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,6 @@ tensorflow==2.9.3
 mindspore==1.10.0
 distro
 cython
-wget
-networkx==2.8.8
\ No newline at end of file
+aiohttp
+async-timeout
+networkx==2.8.8