diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8798169..749e9be 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ PyYAML==3.10
 beautifulsoup4==4.3.2
 ipython==1.1.0
 nltk==2.0.4
-requests==2.0.1
+requests==2.20.0
 simplejson==3.3.1
 wsgiref==0.1.2