diff --git a/scrapy/fetcher.py b/scrapy/fetcher.py
index ee1498a34..a24192503 100644
--- a/scrapy/fetcher.py
+++ b/scrapy/fetcher.py
@@ -1,49 +1,28 @@
-import urlparse
+from urlparse import urlparse
 
 from scrapy.spider import spiders
 from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy.core.manager import scrapymanager
 from scrapy.spider import BaseSpider
 
-def fetch(urls, perdomain=False):
-    """Download a set of urls. This is starts a reactor and is suitable
-    for calling from a main method - not for calling from within the 
-    framework.
+def fetch(urls):
+    """Download the given urls and return a list of the successfully downloaded
+    responses.
 
-    It will return a list of Response objects for all pages successfully
-    downloaded.
+    Suitable for for calling from a script, shouldn't be called from spiders.
     """
-    bigbucket = {} # big bucket to store response objects (per domain)
-
-    def _add(response, domain):
-        if not domain in bigbucket:
-            bigbucket[domain] = []
-        bigbucket[domain] += [response]
-
-    # url clasification by domain
-    requestdata = set()
-    for url in urls:
-        domain = get_or_create_spider(url).domain_name
-        request = Request(url=url, callback=lambda r: _add(r, domain), dont_filter=True)
-        requestdata.add(request)
-
-    scrapymanager.runonce(*requestdata)
-
-    # returns bigbucket as dict or flatted
-    if perdomain:
-        return bigbucket
-
-    flatbucket = []
-    for domain, responses in bigbucket.iteritems():
-        flatbucket.extend(responses)
-    return flatbucket
-
+    map(get_or_create_spider, urls)
+    responses = []
+    requests = [Request(url, callback=responses.append, dont_filter=True) \
+        for url in urls]
+    scrapymanager.runonce(*requests)
+    return responses
 
 def get_or_create_spider(url):
     # XXX: hack to allow downloading pages from unknown domains
     spider = spiders.fromurl(url)
     if not spider:
-        domain = urlparse.urlparse(url).hostname
+        domain = urlparse(url).hostname
         spider = BaseSpider()
         spider.domain_name = domain
         spiders.add_spider(spider)