diff --git a/EpiCurl.php b/EpiCurl.php
index 37d2aa5..0fbbd9c 100644
--- a/EpiCurl.php
+++ b/EpiCurl.php
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ function __construct()
       'url'   => CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL
       );
   }
-
+  
   public function addEasyCurl($ch)
   {
     $key = $this->getKey($ch);
@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ public function addEasyCurl($ch)
     $this->startTimer($key);
     return new EpiCurlManager($key);
   }
+  
+  // simplifies example and allows for additional curl options to be passed in via array
+  public function addURL($url,$options=array()) {
+    $ch = curl_init($url);
+    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+    foreach($options as $option=>$value) {
+      curl_setopt($ch, $option, $value);
+    }
+    return $this->addCurl($ch);
+  }
 
   public function addCurl($ch)
   {
@@ -71,7 +81,7 @@ public function getResult($key = null)
   {
     if($key != null)
     {
-      if(isset($this->responses[$key]))
+      if(isset($this->responses[$key]['data']))
       {
         return $this->responses[$key];
       }
@@ -82,7 +92,7 @@ public function getResult($key = null)
         usleep(intval($outerSleepInt));
         $outerSleepInt = intval(max(1, ($outerSleepInt*$this->sleepIncrement)));
         $ms=curl_multi_select($this->mc, 0);
-        if($ms > 0)
+        if($ms >= CURLM_CALL_MULTI_PERFORM)
         {
           do{
             $this->execStatus = curl_multi_exec($this->mc, $this->running);
@@ -102,7 +112,12 @@ public function getResult($key = null)
     }
     return false;
   }
-
+  
+  public function cleanupResponses()
+  {
+    $this->responses = array();
+  }
+  
   public static function getSequence()
   {
     return new EpiSequence(self::$timers);
@@ -138,7 +153,7 @@ private function storeResponses()
       $this->storeResponse($done);
     }
   }
-
+  
   private function storeResponse($done, $isAsynchronous = true)
   {
     $key = $this->getKey($done['handle']);
@@ -156,7 +171,7 @@ private function storeResponse($done, $isAsynchronous = true)
       curl_multi_remove_handle($this->mc, $done['handle']);
     curl_close($done['handle']);
   }
-
+  
   private function startTimer($key)
   {
     self::$timers[$key]['start'] = microtime(true);
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index da4d8d5..5b47828 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -1,7 +1,22 @@
 {
-	"name": "jmathai/twitter-async", 
-	"description": "Twitter-async is a high performance wrapper for Twitter's OAuth API which provides parallel/asynchronous calls.", 
-	"homepage": "http://www.jaisenmathai.com/articles/twitter-async-documentation.html",
-	"author": "Jaisen Mathai",
-	"license": "BSD"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+    "name": "jmathai/twitter-async",
+    "description": "Twitter-async is a high performance wrapper for Twitter's OAuth API which provides parallel/asynchronous calls.",
+    "homepage": "http://www.jaisenmathai.com/articles/twitter-async-documentation.html",
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "name": "Jaisen Mathai",
+            "homepage": "http://www.jaisenmathai.com/",
+            "email": "jaisen@jmathai.com",
+            "role": "Developer"
+        }
+    ],
+    "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
+    "require": {
+        "ext-curl": "*"
+    },
+    "autoload": {
+        "classmap": [""],
+        "exclude-from-classmap": ["**/tests/**"]
+    },
+    "minimum-stability": "dev"
+}