diff --git a/bookmarkstokml.py b/bookmarkstokml.py
index b4b656d..fee9bfe 100644
--- a/bookmarkstokml.py
+++ b/bookmarkstokml.py
@@ -7,20 +7,21 @@ See readme.md
 from lxml.html import document_fromstring
 import simplekml
 
-from urllib import FancyURLopener
+from urllib.request import FancyURLopener
 
+import os
 import re
 import sys
 import time
 
-coords_in_content = re.compile('\/@(\d+\.\d+),(\d+\.\d+),')
+coords_in_content = re.compile('\/@(-?\d+\.\d+),(-?\d+\.\d+),')
 mobile_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.73 Safari/537.36'
 
 filename = r'GoogleBookmarks.html'
 if(len(sys.argv) > 1):
     filename = sys.argv[1]
 
-print 'opening ' + filename
+print('opening ' + filename)
 with open(filename) as bookmarks_file:
     data = bookmarks_file.read()
 
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ for label in doc.body.iterfind('dl/dt/h3'):
         if 'maps.google' in url:
             print
             description = element.text or ''
-            print  'GET {0} {1}'.format(url, description.encode('UTF8'))
+            print('GET {0} {1}'.format(url, description.encode('UTF8')))
             browser = Browser()
 
             # Load map and find coordinates in source of page
@@ -47,30 +48,34 @@ for label in doc.body.iterfind('dl/dt/h3'):
             while not sock:
                 try:
                     sock = browser.open(url.replace(' ','+'))
-                except Exception, e:
-                    print 'Connection problem:' + repr(e)
-                    print 'Retrying randomly between 15 and 60 seconds.'
+                except Exception as e:
+                    print('Connection problem:' + repr(e))
+                    print('Retrying randomly between 15 and 60 seconds.')
                     time.sleep(random.randint(15, 60))
 
-            content = sock.read()
+            content = sock.read().decode("utf-8")
             sock.close()
 
             try:
-                coords = coords_in_content.search(content)
-                latitude = coords.groups()[0]
-                longitude = coords.groups()[1]
+                coords = coords_in_content.search(content).groups()
+                latitude = coords[0]
+                longitude = coords[1]
 
             except (AttributeError, IndexError):
-                print '[Coordinates not found] ' + str(coords) + ' Try to update "mobile_agent"'
+                print('[Coordinates not found] ' + str(coords) + ' Try to update "mobile_agent"')
                 continue
 
-            print latitude, longitude
+            print(latitude, longitude)
             try:
                 kml.newpoint(name=description,
                              coords=[(float(longitude), float(latitude))])
             except ValueError:
-                print '[Invalid coordinates]'
+                print('[Invalid coordinates]')
 
     output = './maps/' + labelName + '.kml'
-    print 'saving results to ' + output
-    kml.save(output)
\ No newline at end of file
+    print('saving results to ' + output)
+
+    if not os.path.exists('./maps/'):
+        os.makedirs('./maps/')
+
+    kml.save(output)