diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 516894e..d821730 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ You do need:
 - [wheezy.template](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wheezy.template) to generate HTML pages
 - [chardet](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet)
 - [six](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/six), a dependency of chardet
+- pymysql
 
 Simplest way to get these:
 
diff --git a/morss/crawler.py b/morss/crawler.py
index 1b37ef9..4d00fca 100644
--- a/morss/crawler.py
+++ b/morss/crawler.py
@@ -517,3 +517,36 @@ class SQLiteCache(BaseCache):
                 self.con.execute('INSERT INTO data VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?)', (url,) + value)
 
 
+import pymysql.cursors
+
+
+class MySQLCacheHandler(BaseCache):
+    " NB. Requires mono-threading, as pymysql doesn't isn't thread-safe "
+    def __init__(self, user, password, database, host='localhost'):
+        self.con = pymysql.connect(host=host, user=user, password=password, database=database, charset='utf8', autocommit=True)
+
+        with self.con.cursor() as cursor:
+            cursor.execute('CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS data (url VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, code INT, msg TEXT, headers TEXT, data BLOB, timestamp INT)')
+
+    def __del__(self):
+        self.con.close()
+
+    def __getitem__(self, url):
+        cursor = self.con.cursor()
+        cursor.execute('SELECT * FROM data WHERE url=%s', (url,))
+        row = cursor.fetchone()
+
+        if not row:
+            raise KeyError
+
+        return row[1:]
+
+    def __setitem__(self, url, value): # (code, msg, headers, data, timestamp)
+        if url in self:
+            with self.con.cursor() as cursor:
+                cursor.execute('UPDATE data SET code=%s, msg=%s, headers=%s, data=%s, timestamp=%s WHERE url=%s',
+                    value + (url,))
+
+        else:
+            with self.con.cursor() as cursor:
+                cursor.execute('INSERT INTO data VALUES (%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s)', (url,) + value)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ac6a777..a4bc57e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ html2text
 ordereddict
 wheezy.template
 chardet
+pymysql