diff --git a/frappe/website/router.py b/frappe/website/router.py
index bce40c7713..4a9db0868f 100644
--- a/frappe/website/router.py
+++ b/frappe/website/router.py
@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@
 # MIT License. See license.txt
 
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
-import frappe, os
 
-from frappe.website.utils import (can_cache, delete_page_cache, extract_title,
-	extract_comment_tag)
-from frappe.model.document import get_controller
-from six import text_type
 import io
+import os
+import re
+
+import yaml
+
+import frappe
+from frappe.model.document import get_controller
+from frappe.website.utils import can_cache, delete_page_cache, extract_comment_tag, extract_title
+
 
 def resolve_route(path):
 	"""Returns the page route object based on searching in pages and generators.
@@ -229,10 +233,26 @@ def get_page_info(path, app, start, basepath=None, app_path=None, fname=None):
 
 	return page_info
 
+def get_frontmatter(string):
+	"""
+	Reference: https://github.com/jonbeebe/frontmatter
+	"""
+
+	fmatter = ""
+	body = ""
+	result = re.compile(r'^\s*(?:---|\+\+\+)(.*?)(?:---|\+\+\+)\s*(.+)$', re.S | re.M).search(string)
+
+	if result:
+		fmatter = result.group(1)
+		body = result.group(2)
+
+	return {
+		"attributes": yaml.safe_load(fmatter),
+		"body": body,
+	}
+
 def setup_source(page_info):
 	'''Get the HTML source of the template'''
-	from frontmatter import Frontmatter
-
 	jenv = frappe.get_jenv()
 	source = jenv.loader.get_source(jenv, page_info.template)[0]
 	html = ''
@@ -241,11 +261,11 @@ def setup_source(page_info):
 		# extract frontmatter block if exists
 		try:
 			# values will be used to update page_info
-			res = Frontmatter.read(source)
+			res = get_frontmatter(source)
 			if res['attributes']:
 				page_info.update(res['attributes'])
 				source = res['body']
-		except Exception as e:
+		except Exception:
 			pass
 
 		if page_info.template.endswith('.md'):
@@ -367,4 +387,4 @@ def get_doctypes_with_web_view():
 	return frappe.cache().get_value('doctypes_with_web_view', _get)
 
 def get_start_folders():
-	return frappe.local.flags.web_pages_folders or ('www', 'templates/pages')
\ No newline at end of file
+	return frappe.local.flags.web_pages_folders or ('www', 'templates/pages')
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bcf3760cd8..58f923d880 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ cryptography==2.8
 dropbox==9.1.0
 email-reply-parser==0.5.9
 Faker==2.0.4
-frontmatter==3.0.6
 future==0.18.2
 GitPython==2.1.15
 gitdb2==2.0.6;python_version<'3.4'
@@ -49,7 +48,7 @@ pypng==0.0.20
 PyQRCode==1.2.1
 python-dateutil==2.8.1
 pytz==2019.3
-PyYAML==5.1
+PyYAML==5.3.1
 rauth==0.7.3
 redis>=3.0
 requests-oauthlib==1.3.0