diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 08058b6..ff1c840 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pandas==0.19.1
 pyparsing==2.1.10
 python-dateutil==2.6.0
 pytz==2016.7
-requests==2.12.3
+requests==2.20.0
 scipy==0.18.1
 six==1.10.0
 xlrd==1.0.0