diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 27f687d339b89e5dde4c29125f3082494e9f9dd7..e3182569c4213e91fc4edb7affd6338d7603d44c 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -238,14 +238,10 @@ before_install:
         #sudo apt-get install -qq -y clang-3.7 libclang-common-3.7-dev libclang-3.7-dev libclang1-3.7 libllvm3.7 lldb-3.7 llvm-3.7 llvm-3.7-dev llvm-3.7-runtime clang-modernize-3.7 clang-format-3.7 lldb-3.7-dev
       # OSX
       elif [[ ${TRAVIS_OS_NAME} == "osx" ]]; then
-        # xpath install is based on http://lewandowski.io/2015/01/sed-xpath/
-        brew tap concept-not-found/tap
         brew update
         brew outdated boost || brew upgrade boost
         brew outdated cmake || brew upgrade cmake
-        brew install lcov xpath homebrew/science/opencv
-        mv /usr/local/bin/xpath /usr/local/bin/osx.xpath
-        sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/xpath/1.13-7/bin/xpath /usr/local/bin/xpath
+        brew install lcov homebrew/science/opencv
       fi
     - gem install coveralls-lcov
     - if [ "$CXX" = "g++" ]; then export CXX="g++-4.8" CC="gcc-4.8"; fi
diff --git a/.travis/codacy-install.sh b/.travis/codacy-install.sh
index 32345de384a2a35760e488dd43b903fc88d6a31e..5d0afd90f1cf7dc9a127e8b63f63fdc0252520ee 100755
--- a/.travis/codacy-install.sh
+++ b/.travis/codacy-install.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# get latest version of codacy reporter from sonatype
-latest=$(curl "https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content/com/codacy/codacy-coverage-reporter/maven-metadata.xml" | xpath -e "/metadata/versioning/release/text()")
+if [[ ${TRAVIS_OS_NAME} == "osx" ]]; then
+  # Xpath doesn't work on OSX, so use a hard-coded version number
+  latest="4.0.1"
+else
+  # get latest version of codacy reporter from sonatype
+  latest=$(curl "https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/releases/content/com/codacy/codacy-coverage-reporter/maven-metadata.xml" | xpath -e "/metadata/versioning/release/text()")
+fi
 
 echo Downloading latest version $latest of codacy reporter from sonatype
 # download laterst assembly jar