diff --git a/myanimelist/media.py b/myanimelist/media.py
index 01aa57f..9428443 100644
--- a/myanimelist/media.py
+++ b/myanimelist/media.py
@@ -270,8 +270,14 @@ def parse_sidebar(self, media_page):
             if len(rank_tag_results) == 0:
                 raise Exception("Couldn't find rank tag.")
             # rank_tag is a lxml.etree._ElementUnicodeResult here:
-            rank_tag = rank_tag_results[0].getparent().xpath(".//text()[contains(.,'#')]")[0]
-            media_info['rank'] = int(rank_tag.strip()[1:].replace(',', ''))
+
+            contains = rank_tag_results[0].getparent().xpath(".//text()[contains(.,'#')]")
+            if contains:
+                rank_tag = contains[0]
+                media_info['rank'] = int(rank_tag.strip()[1:].replace(',', ''))
+            else:
+                media_info['rank'] = "N/A"
+
         except:
             if not self.session.suppress_parse_exceptions:
                 raise
diff --git a/myanimelist/utilities.py b/myanimelist/utilities.py
index bdf6018..fbdec47 100644
--- a/myanimelist/utilities.py
+++ b/myanimelist/utilities.py
@@ -156,7 +156,10 @@ def parse_profile_date(text, suppress=False):
         try:
             parsed_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(text, '%b %d, %I:%M %p')
         except ValueError:
-            parsed_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(text, '%b %d, %Y %I:%M %p')
+            try:
+                parsed_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(text, '%b %d, %Y %I:%M %p')
+            except ValueError: # if the user don't display his birthday year, it never work.
+                parsed_date = None
         # see if it's a month/year pairing.
         return parsed_date if parsed_date is not None else None
     except:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6b61b6d..ce08a2b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   'download_url': 'https://github.com/pushrbx/python3-mal/archive/master.zip',
   'author_email': 'contact@pushrbx.net',
   'version': '0.2.10',
-  'install_requires': ['urllib3==1.21.1', 'requests', 'pytz', 'lxml', 'cssselect'],
+  'install_requires': ['urllib3', 'requests', 'pytz', 'lxml', 'cssselect'],
   'tests_require': ['nose'],
   'packages': ['myanimelist']
 }