diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 1943c7d..f0a436e 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 flake8
 pytest
-requests==2.22.0
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+requests==2.31.0
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 41f2431..332b178 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
     download_url='https://github.com/MatteusT/pyDBpedia/archive/v0.0.1.tar.gz',
     keywords=['DBpedia', 'knowledge base'],
     install_requires=(
-        'requests==2.22.0',
+        'requests==2.31.0',
     ),
     include_package_data=True,
     classifiers=[