diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 81bcd37..88b2b99 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Flask==1.0.0
 editdistance==0.3.1
 nltk==3.4.5
 joblib==0.11
-requests==2.20.0
+requests==2.31.0
 gensim==2.1.0
 numpy==1.13.3
 scikit_learn==0.19.1