diff --git a/media_and_the_mayor/requirements.txt b/media_and_the_mayor/requirements.txt
index 392db1b..ff45a30 100644
--- a/media_and_the_mayor/requirements.txt
+++ b/media_and_the_mayor/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 nltk==3.4.5
-Scrapy==1.8.0
+Scrapy==2.6.1
 scrapy_splash==0.7.2
 mxnet==1.6.0b20191207
 Keras==2.3.1