diff --git a/data_acquisition/Pipfile b/data_acquisition/Pipfile
index d99a923..b82fb5d 100644
--- a/data_acquisition/Pipfile
+++ b/data_acquisition/Pipfile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ verify_ssl = true
 [packages]
 requests = "*"
 psycopg2-binary = "*"
+aiohttp = "*"
 
 [requires]
 python_version = "3.6"
diff --git a/data_acquisition/clear_expired_jobs.py b/data_acquisition/clear_expired_jobs.py
index 9f5c1bb..0c45bd3 100644
--- a/data_acquisition/clear_expired_jobs.py
+++ b/data_acquisition/clear_expired_jobs.py
@@ -4,25 +4,39 @@
 import psycopg2
 import getpass
 import logging
+import asyncio
+from aiohttp import ClientSession
 
 url_index = 2
 id_index = 0
 
 # Currently just makes a GET request to the URLs in the DB and returns true if the status code isn't 200
 # TODO: read HTML for websites to see if they're expired even if the status code is 200
-def check_expired(job):
-  url = job[url_index]
-  if(url):
-    response = requests.get(url)
-    if(response.status_code != 200):
-      return True
-    else:
-      return False
-
+def job_is_expired(response):
+  if response['response'].status != 200:
+    return True
   else:
-    print("No URL")
     return False
 
+async def get_url_response(job, session):
+  async with session.get(job[url_index]) as response:
+    return {'job_id': job[id_index], 'response': response}
+
+async def delete_expired_jobs(cur, con):
+  tasks = []
+  async with ClientSession() as session:
+    for job in cur:
+      task = asyncio.ensure_future(get_url_response(job, session))
+      tasks.append(task)
+
+    responses = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+
+    for response in responses:
+      if job_is_expired(response):
+        cur.execute("DELETE FROM job WHERE id = %s", (response['job_id'],))
+
+    con.commit()
+
 # Gets all the jobs from the db and deletes the ones that are expired
 def check_for_expired_jobs():
   # dbname, user, host, and password should match your database info in ormconfig.json
@@ -32,18 +46,9 @@ def check_for_expired_jobs():
   # Get all jobs from db
   cur.execute("SELECT * FROM job")
 
-  # Go through all of the jobs from the db and check if they're expired
-  expired_job_ids = []
-  for job in cur:
-    expired = check_expired(job)
-    if(expired):
-      expired_job_ids.append(job[id_index])
-
-  # Go through all of the expired jobs and delete them from the db
-  for job_id in expired_job_ids:
-    cur.execute("DELETE FROM job WHERE id = %s", (job_id,))
-  
-  con.commit()
+  loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+  future = asyncio.ensure_future(delete_expired_jobs(cur, con))
+  loop.run_until_complete(future)
 
 try:
   check_for_expired_jobs()