diff --git a/Artifacts.toml b/Artifacts.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index a14162cd..00000000
--- a/Artifacts.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-[plotly]
-git-tree-sha1 = "f03dd0451a05a5fdbbcb3e548998a9d7a1ab6368"
-lazy = true
-
-    [[plotly.download]]
-    url = "https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-1.54.2.min.js"
-    sha256 = "487f1da6b7a1f127de59af8a65bb3fe2c63d709f011afea82896bdce28ecc0f8"
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index e6dca89b..86c01659 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ RecipesBase = "3cdcf5f2-1ef4-517c-9805-6587b60abb01"
 RecipesPipeline = "01d81517-befc-4cb6-b9ec-a95719d0359c"
 Reexport = "189a3867-3050-52da-a836-e630ba90ab69"
 Requires = "ae029012-a4dd-5104-9daa-d747884805df"
+Scratch = "6c6a2e73-6563-6170-7368-637461726353"
 Showoff = "992d4aef-0814-514b-bc4d-f2e9a6c4116f"
 SparseArrays = "2f01184e-e22b-5df5-ae63-d93ebab69eaf"
 Statistics = "10745b16-79ce-11e8-11f9-7d13ad32a3b2"
@@ -44,7 +45,6 @@ JSON = "0.21, 1"
 Latexify = "0.14"
 Measures = "0.3"
 NaNMath = "0.3"
-PGFPlotsX = "1.2.0"
 PlotThemes = "2"
 PlotUtils = "1"
 RecipesBase = "1"
@@ -52,9 +52,8 @@ RecipesPipeline = "0.1.13"
 Reexport = "0.2"
 Requires = "1"
 Showoff = "0.3.1"
-StableRNGs = "0.1.1"
 StatsBase = "0.32, 0.33"
-julia = "1.3"
+julia = "1.5"
 
 [extras]
 Distributions = "31c24e10-a181-5473-b8eb-7969acd0382f"
diff --git a/src/init.jl b/src/init.jl
index f10e507d..b4c62dbf 100644
--- a/src/init.jl
+++ b/src/init.jl
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 using REPL
-using Pkg.Artifacts
+using Scratch
+
+const plotly_local_file_path = Ref{String}()
 
-const plotly_local_file_path = Ref("")
 
 function _plots_defaults()
     if isdefined(Main, :PLOTS_DEFAULTS)
@@ -78,16 +79,11 @@ function __init__()
     end
 
     if get(ENV, "PLOTS_HOST_DEPENDENCY_LOCAL", "false") == "true"
-        artifact_toml = joinpath(@__DIR__, "Artifacts.toml")
-
-        plotly_sha = artifact_hash("plotly", artifact_toml)
-        if plotly_sha === nothing || !artifact_exists(plotly_sha)
-            plotly_sha = create_artifact() do artifact_dir
-                download("https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-1.54.2.min.js", joinpath(artifact_dir, "plotly-1.54.2.min.js"))
-            end
+        global plotly_local_file_path[] = joinpath(@get_scratch!("plotly"), "plotly-1.54.2.min.js")
+        if !isfile(plotly_local_file_path[])
+            download("https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-1.54.2.min.js", plotly_local_file_path[])
         end
 
-        plotly_local_file_path[] = joinpath(artifact_path(plotly_sha), "plotly-1.54.2.min.js")
         use_local_plotlyjs[] = true
     end