diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b8d5955..e06c903 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ queuelib==1.4.2
 requests==2.13.0
 scikit-learn==0.18.1
 scipy==0.19.0
-Scrapy==1.3.3
+Scrapy==2.6.1
 service-identity==16.0.0
 simplegeneric==0.8.1
 six==1.10.0