diff --git a/R/usage.R b/R/usage.R
index d66f926..7c1b77e 100644
--- a/R/usage.R
+++ b/R/usage.R
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ pt_usage <- function(api_key = packettotal_api_key()) {
 
   httr::stop_for_status(res)
 
-  out <- httr::content(res, as = "text")
+  out <- httr::content(res, as = "text", encoding = "UTF-8")
 
-  out <- jsonlite::fromJSON(out, encoding = "UTF-8")
+  out <- jsonlite::fromJSON(out)
 
   out
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-packettotal.R b/tests/testthat/test-packettotal.R
index 0c22968..3328b4b 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-packettotal.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-packettotal.R
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 context("minimal package functionality")
-test_that("we can do something", {
 
-  #expect_that(some_function(), is_a("data.frame"))
+skip_on_cran()
+
+expect_true("user" %in% names(pt_usage()))
+
+x <- pt_info("d210f4dbea97949f694e849507951881")
+expect_true("md5" %in% names(x$pcap_metadata))
 
-})