diff --git a/dvc/repo/get_url.py b/dvc/repo/get_url.py
index 7aad361e8e..5430637c65 100644
--- a/dvc/repo/get_url.py
+++ b/dvc/repo/get_url.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ def get_url(url, out=None):
 
     (dep,) = dependency.loads_from(None, [url])
     (out,) = output.loads_from(None, [out], use_cache=False)
-    dep.save()
+    if not dep.exists:
+        raise dep.DoesNotExistError(dep)
     dep.download(out)
     out.save()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fe8595989d..a21ef78f52 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ def run(self):
     name="dvc",
     version=version,
     description="Git for data scientists - manage your code and data together",
-    long_description=open("README.rst", "r").read(),
+    long_description=open("README.rst", "r", encoding="UTF-8").read(),
     author="Dmitry Petrov",
     author_email="dmitry@dvc.org",
     download_url="https://github.com/iterative/dvc",