diff --git a/lib/pygithub/github.py b/lib/pygithub/github.py
index bd9f40776dad1db40696c16fff73849d9452f784..c0bfad7780f8bf8a0a5b6cb75397c2dcc9efb59b 100644
--- a/lib/pygithub/github.py
+++ b/lib/pygithub/github.py
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ for __t in (t for t in globals().values() if hasattr(t, 'parses')):
 
 class BaseEndpoint(object):
 
-    BASE_URL = 'http://github.com/api/v2/xml/'
+    BASE_URL = 'https://github.com/api/v2/xml/'
 
     def __init__(self, user, token, fetcher):
         self.user = user
diff --git a/sickbeard/versionChecker.py b/sickbeard/versionChecker.py
index 76355298812d3ad51ce39914a4fe58b1caffa393..f4f040f8041382ec7a517095bc9196ce71a4dbdd 100644
--- a/sickbeard/versionChecker.py
+++ b/sickbeard/versionChecker.py
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ class SourceUpdateManager(GitUpdateManager):
         Downloads the latest source tarball from github and installs it over the existing version.
         """
 
-        tar_download_url = 'http://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard/tarball/'+version.SICKBEARD_VERSION
+        tar_download_url = 'https://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard/tarball/'+version.SICKBEARD_VERSION
         sb_update_dir = os.path.join(sickbeard.PROG_DIR, 'sb-update')
         version_path = os.path.join(sickbeard.PROG_DIR, 'version.txt')