diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0b41c1e..6a9638d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ Contribution data for akerl:
 #
 ```
 
+### Polling for streaks longer than 1 year
+
 ## Installation
 
     gem install githubstats
diff --git a/lib/githubstats.rb b/lib/githubstats.rb
index a6e353f..8e5ad63 100644
--- a/lib/githubstats.rb
+++ b/lib/githubstats.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 require 'curb'
 require 'json'
+require 'githubstats/longstreakpoller'
 
 ##
 # Rugged is used if available to look up the user's Github username
@@ -29,6 +30,8 @@ def self.new(*args)
   ##
   # User object
   class User
+    include GithubStats::LongStreakPoller
+
     attr_reader :name, :url, :data, :last_updated
 
     ##
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ class User
     def initialize(params = {})
       params = { name: params } unless params.is_a? Hash
       @name = params[:name] || guess_user
+      @poll_for_long_streaks = params[:poll_for_long_streaks] || false
       @url = (params[:url] || DEFAULT_URL) % @name
       @last_updated = nil
     end
@@ -81,6 +85,7 @@ def guess_user(names = [])
 
     def load_data
       @data = GithubStats::Data.new download
+      poll_longer_streak if @data.streak.size == 366 && poll_for_long_streaks
       @last_updated = DateTime.now
     end
 
diff --git a/lib/githubstats/longstreakpoller.rb b/lib/githubstats/longstreakpoller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2885594
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/githubstats/longstreakpoller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+require 'open-uri'
+begin
+  require 'nokogiri'
+  NOKOGIRI_AVAIL = true
+rescue LoadError
+  NOKOGIRI_AVAIL = false
+end
+
+##
+# Performs polling to GitHub's user page to check for long streaks
+
+module GithubStats
+  module LongStreakPoller
+    def poll_longer_streak
+      return unless NOKOGIRI_AVAIL
+      page = open("https://github.com/#{@name}")
+      element = Nokogiri::HTML(page.read).css('.contrib-streak-current').first
+      streak = element.text.split[2].to_i
+      patch_streak(streak) if streak > @data.streak.size
+    end
+
+    def patch_streak(new)
+      new_streak = StreakInjector.new
+      new_streak.override_streak new
+      @data.instance_variable_set(:@github_streak, new_streak)
+      @data.instance_eval "def streak\n@github_streak\nend"
+      @data.instance_eval "def longest_streak\n@github_streak\nend"
+    end
+  end
+
+  class StreakInjector < Array
+    def override_streak(new)
+      @streak_length = new
+    end
+
+    def size
+      @streak_length
+    end
+
+    alias_method :length, :size
+  end
+end