diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1b6f70d..336a58d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ nltk==3.0.0
 numpy==1.9.1
 pygeocoder==1.2.5
 python-memcached==1.53
-requests==2.3.0
+requests==2.20.0
 simplejson==3.6.5
 wsgiref==0.1.2