diff --git a/projects/macports.py b/projects/macports.py
index 4bd3184..de00bd7 100644
--- a/projects/macports.py
+++ b/projects/macports.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from project import Project
 from shared import CSC_MIRROR
 
 import datefinder  # another date finding library
+from datetime import timedelta
 
 class macports(Project):
     """macports class"""
@@ -13,18 +14,20 @@ class macports(Project):
     def checker(directory_URL, file_name):
         page = requests.get(directory_URL).text
         file_index = page.find(file_name)
-        # print(page)
+        end_index = page[file_index:].find("</tr>") + file_index
+
+        # The CSC mirror does not use tr tags, so end_index will be set to the end of the file
+        if end_index == (file_index - 1):
+            end_index = len(page) - 1
 
         # remove stray numbers (file size numbers in particular) that might interfere with date finding
-        segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\s', ' ', page[file_index:])  # removes numbers for size
-        segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\w*\s', ' ', page[file_index:])  # removes numbers + size unit. e.x. 50kb
-        # print(segment_clean)
+        segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\s', ' ', page[file_index:end_index])  # removes numbers for size
+        segment_clean = re.sub(r'\s\d+\w*\s', ' ', page[file_index:end_index])  # removes numbers + size unit. e.x. 50kb
 
         # finds the dates in the segment after the file name
         # notes: a generator will be returned by the datefinder module. I'm typecasting it to a list. Please read the note of caution provided at the bottom.
         matches = list(datefinder.find_dates(segment_clean))
 
-        # print(matches[0])
         return matches[0]
     
     @classmethod
@@ -33,5 +36,6 @@ class macports(Project):
         csc_url = CSC_MIRROR + data[project]["csc"]
         upstream_url = data[project]["upstream"]
         file_name = data[project]["file"]
-        
-        return cls.checker(csc_url, file_name) == cls.checker(upstream_url, file_name)
+
+        # Subtract 2 hours from upstream to account for timezones
+        return cls.checker(csc_url, file_name) == cls.checker(upstream_url, file_name) - timedelta(hours=2)
diff --git a/projects/ubuntu_ports.py b/projects/ubuntu_ports.py
index fcbaef5..2eade49 100644
--- a/projects/ubuntu_ports.py
+++ b/projects/ubuntu_ports.py
@@ -1,39 +1,16 @@
-from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-import requests
+"""
+Contains ubuntu class
+"""
+
+import os
 from project import Project
 from shared import CSC_MIRROR
+from shared import NUM_UBUNTU_RELEASES
+import requests
 
 class ubuntu_ports(Project):
     """ubuntu_ports class"""
-
     @staticmethod
-    def scrape(site1, site2):
-        # getting the request from url
-        r1 = requests.get(site1)
-        r2 = requests.get(site2)
-        
-        # converting the text
-        s1 = BeautifulSoup(r1.text,"html.parser")
-        s2 = BeautifulSoup(r2.text,"html.parser")
-
-        hrefs1 = [i.attrs['href'] for i in s1.find_all("a")]
-        hrefs2 = [i.attrs['href'] for i in s2.find_all("a")]
-
-        for href in hrefs1: # for a href directories
-            if href.endswith("/") and href != "../" and href != "/" and not href.startswith("/"):
-                # print(href)
-                if href not in hrefs2:
-                    return False
-                elif requests.get(site1+href+"Release").text != requests.get(site2+href+"Release").text:
-                    return False
-        return True
-
-    @classmethod
-    def check(cls, data, project, current_time):
-        """Check if project packages are up-to-date"""
-        
-        csc_url = CSC_MIRROR + data[project]["csc"] + data[project]["file"]
-        upstream_url = data[project]["upstream"] + data[project]["file"]
-        
-        # calling function
-        return cls.scrape(upstream_url, csc_url)
+    def check(data, project, current_time):
+        page = requests.get(data[project]["upstream"]).text
+        return page.count("Up to date") == NUM_UBUNTU_RELEASES