diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c09e8c029294..062b94e24e53 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ out/
 vendor/
 *.xcodeproj
 *.swp
+*.pyc
diff --git a/script/lib/__init__.py b/script/lib/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e69de29bb2d1
diff --git a/script/lib/util.py b/script/lib/util.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b71e5838be8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/lib/util.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import atexit
+import shutil
+import tarfile
+import tempfile
+import urllib2
+
+
+def download(text, url, filename):
+  directory = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='atom-shell-')
+  atexit.register(shutil.rmtree, directory)
+
+  web_file = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+  file_size = int(web_file.info().getheaders("Content-Length")[0])
+  downloaded_size = 0
+  block_size = 128
+
+  with open(os.path.join(directory, filename), 'w+') as local_file:
+    while True:
+      buf = web_file.read(block_size)
+      if not buf:
+        break
+
+      downloaded_size += len(buf)
+      local_file.write(buf)
+
+      percent = downloaded_size * 100. / file_size
+      status = "\r%s  %10d  [%3.1f%%]" % (text, downloaded_size, percent)
+      print status,
+
+    print
+
+  return directory
+
+
+def extract_tarball(tarball_path, member, path):
+  with tarfile.open(tarball_path) as tarball:
+    tarball.extract(member, path)
+
+
+def safe_unlink(path):
+  try:
+    os.unlink(path)
+  except OSError as e:
+    if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:
+      raise
+
+
+def safe_mkdir(path):
+  try:
+    os.makedirs(path)
+  except OSError as e:
+    if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
+      raise
diff --git a/script/update-node b/script/update-node
index c406cfaff2ed..bfa2aa07492d 100755
--- a/script/update-node
+++ b/script/update-node
@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 import argparse
-import atexit
 import errno
-import shutil
 import subprocess
 import sys
-import tarfile
-import tempfile
 import os
-import urllib2
+
+from lib.util import *
 
 
 SOURCE_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
@@ -78,53 +75,5 @@ def copy_node(node_path):
   os.rename(node_path, node)
 
 
-def download(text, url, filename):
-  directory = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='atom-shell-')
-  atexit.register(shutil.rmtree, directory)
-
-  web_file = urllib2.urlopen(url)
-  file_size = int(web_file.info().getheaders("Content-Length")[0])
-  downloaded_size = 0
-  block_size = 128
-
-  with open(os.path.join(directory, filename), 'w+') as local_file:
-    while True:
-      buf = web_file.read(block_size)
-      if not buf:
-        break
-
-      downloaded_size += len(buf)
-      local_file.write(buf)
-
-      percent = downloaded_size * 100. / file_size
-      status = "\r%s  %10d  [%3.1f%%]" % (text, downloaded_size, percent)
-      print status,
-
-    print
-
-  return directory
-
-
-def extract_tarball(tarball_path, member, path):
-  with tarfile.open(tarball_path) as tarball:
-    tarball.extract(member, path)
-
-
-def safe_unlink(path):
-  try:
-    os.unlink(path)
-  except OSError as e:
-    if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:
-      raise
-
-
-def safe_mkdir(path):
-  try:
-    os.makedirs(path)
-  except OSError as e:
-    if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
-      raise
-
-
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   sys.exit(main())