diff --git a/tutorials/nnvm/nlp/from_darknet_rnn.py b/tutorials/nnvm/nlp/from_darknet_rnn.py
index 1d9ecb73ea265..118295f23186a 100644
--- a/tutorials/nnvm/nlp/from_darknet_rnn.py
+++ b/tutorials/nnvm/nlp/from_darknet_rnn.py
@@ -19,13 +19,8 @@
 by the script.
 """
 import random
-import os
-import sys
-import time
-import urllib
-import requests
 import numpy as np
-import urllib.request as urllib2
+from mxnet.gluon.utils import download
 import tvm
 from tvm.contrib import graph_runtime
 from nnvm.testing.darknet import __darknetffi__
@@ -43,51 +38,13 @@
 CFG_URL = REPO_URL + 'cfg/' + CFG_NAME + '?raw=true'
 WEIGHTS_URL = REPO_URL + 'weights/' + WEIGHTS_NAME + '?raw=true'
 
-def _dl_progress(count, block_size, total_size):
-    """Show the download progress."""
-    global start_time
-    if count == 0:
-        start_time = time.time()
-        return
-    duration = time.time() - start_time
-    progress_size = int(count * block_size)
-    speed = int(progress_size / (1024 * duration))
-    percent = int(count * block_size * 100 / total_size)
-    sys.stdout.write("\r...%d%%, %d MB, %d KB/s, %d seconds passed" %
-                     (percent, progress_size / (1024 * 1024), speed, duration))
-    sys.stdout.flush()
-
-def _download(url, path, overwrite=False, sizecompare=False):
-    """Downloads the file from the internet.
-    """
-    if os.path.isfile(path) and not overwrite:
-        if sizecompare:
-            file_size = os.path.getsize(path)
-            res_head = requests.head(url)
-            res_get = requests.get(url, stream=True)
-            if 'Content-Length' not in res_head.headers:
-                res_get = urllib2.urlopen(url)
-            url_file_size = int(res_get.headers['Content-Length'])
-            if url_file_size != file_size:
-                print("exist file got corrupted, downloading", path, " file freshly")
-                _download(url, path, True, False)
-                return
-        print('File {} exists, skip.'.format(path))
-        return
-    print('Downloading from url {} to {}'.format(url, path))
-    try:
-        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, path, reporthook=_dl_progress)
-        print('')
-    except:
-        urllib.urlretrieve(url, path, reporthook=_dl_progress)
-
-_download(CFG_URL, CFG_NAME)
-_download(WEIGHTS_URL, WEIGHTS_NAME)
+download(CFG_URL, CFG_NAME)
+download(WEIGHTS_URL, WEIGHTS_NAME)
 
 # Download and Load darknet library
 DARKNET_LIB = 'libdarknet.so'
 DARKNET_URL = REPO_URL + 'lib/' + DARKNET_LIB + '?raw=true'
-_download(DARKNET_URL, DARKNET_LIB)
+download(DARKNET_URL, DARKNET_LIB)
 DARKNET_LIB = __darknetffi__.dlopen('./' + DARKNET_LIB)
 cfg = "./" + str(CFG_NAME)
 weights = "./" + str(WEIGHTS_NAME)
@@ -110,19 +67,6 @@ def _download(url, path, overwrite=False, sizecompare=False):
 with nnvm.compiler.build_config(opt_level=2):
     graph, lib, params = nnvm.compiler.build(sym, target, shape_dict, dtype_dict, params)
 
-# Save the json
-def _save_lib():
-    '''Save the graph, params and .so to the current directory'''
-    print("Saving the compiled output...")
-    path_name = 'nnvm_darknet_' + MODEL_NAME
-    path_lib = path_name + '_deploy_lib.so'
-    lib.export_library(path_lib)
-    with open(path_name + "deploy_graph.json", "w") as fo:
-        fo.write(graph.json())
-    with open(path_name + "deploy_param.params", "wb") as fo:
-        fo.write(nnvm.compiler.save_param_dict(params))
-#_save_lib()
-
 # Execute on TVM
 ctx = tvm.cpu(0)