diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a3b75c8..9382704 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 Source: swh-lister-github
 Maintainer: Software Heritage developers <swh-devel@inria.fr>
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                dh-python,
                python3-all,
                python3-dateutil,
                python3-nose,
                python3-setuptools,
                python3-swh.core,
                python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.10~),
-               python3-swh.storage (>= 0.0.69~),
+               python3-swh.storage (>= 0.0.76~),
                python3-vcversioner
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Homepage: https://forge.softwareheritage.org/diffusion/DLSGH/
 
 Package: python3-swh.lister.github
 Architecture: all
 Depends: python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.10~),
-         python3-swh.storage (>= 0.0.69~),
+         python3-swh.storage (>= 0.0.76~),
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${python3:Depends}
 Description: Software Heritage GitHub lister
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5648255..eeaf25b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 requests
 SQLAlchemy
 
 swh.core
-swh.storage >= 0.0.69
+swh.storage >= 0.0.76
 swh.scheduler >= 0.0.10
diff --git a/swh/lister/github/base.py b/swh/lister/github/base.py
index fdf99a0..15c2755 100644
--- a/swh/lister/github/base.py
+++ b/swh/lister/github/base.py
@@ -1,63 +1,65 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2016 The Software Heritage developers
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 from swh.core import config
 from swh.storage import get_storage
 from swh.scheduler.backend import SchedulerBackend
 
 
 # TODO: split this into a lister-agnostic module
 
 class SWHLister(config.SWHConfig):
     CONFIG_BASE_FILENAME = None
 
     DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
-        'storage_class': ('str', 'remote_storage'),
-        'storage_args': ('list[str]', ['http://localhost:5000/']),
-
+        'storage': ('dict', {
+            'cls': 'remote',
+            'args': {
+                'url': 'http://localhost:5000/'
+            },
+        }),
         'scheduling_db': ('str', 'dbname=softwareheritage-scheduler'),
     }
 
     ADDITIONAL_CONFIG = {}
 
     def __init__(self):
         self.config = self.parse_config_file(
             additional_configs=[self.ADDITIONAL_CONFIG])
 
-        self.storage = get_storage(self.config['storage_class'],
-                                   self.config['storage_args'])
+        self.storage = get_storage(**self.config['storage'])
 
         self.scheduler = SchedulerBackend(
             scheduling_db=self.config['scheduling_db'],
         )
 
     def create_origins(self, origins):
         """Create the origins listed, and return their ids.
 
         Args:
             origins: a list of origins
         Returns:
             a list of origin ids
         """
         return self.storage.origin_add(origins)
 
     def create_tasks(self, tasks):
         """Create the tasks specified, and return their ids.
 
         Args:
             tasks (list of dict): a list of task specifications:
                 type (str): the task type
                 arguments (dict): the arguments for the task runner
                     args (list of str): arguments
                     kwargs (dict str -> str): keyword arguments
                 next_run (datetime.datetime): when to schedule the next run
         Returns:
             a list of task ids
         """
         returned_tasks = self.scheduler.create_tasks(tasks)
         return [returned_task['id'] for returned_task in returned_tasks]
 
     def disable_tasks(self, task_ids):
         """Disable the tasks identified by the given ids"""
         self.scheduler.disable_tasks(task_ids)