diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f5bf2aa..f7e7825 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ beautifulsoup4==4.3.2
 colorama==0.2.7
 networkx==1.8.1
 nose==1.3.1
-requests==2.6.0
+requests==2.20.0
 mwparserfromhell==0.3.3
 click==1.0.0
 sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.7