diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3ab8cba..342642c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ lxml==4.1.1
 numpy==1.13.3
 opencv-python==3.3.0.10
 pkg-resources==0.0.0
-requests==2.18.4
+requests==2.20.0
 urllib3==1.22
 wikipedia==1.4.0