diff --git a/circle.yml b/circle.yml
index 64638e0..f321653 100644
--- a/circle.yml
+++ b/circle.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ machine:
 
 
 dependencies:
+  pre:
+    - sudo apt install pandoc pandoc-citeproc
+    - bash scripts/before_script.sh
+
   post:
     - pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
 
diff --git a/scripts/before_script.sh b/scripts/before_script.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d1adaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/before_script.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# 'stolen' from https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/blob/master/travis/before-script.sh
+
+set -e
+
+sudo apt-get install -y openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev
+wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.3/wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
+tar -xJf wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
+cd wkhtmltox
+sudo chown root:root bin/wkhtmltopdf
+sudo cp -r * /usr/