diff --git a/api_files/requirements.txt b/api_files/requirements.txt
index 977ce9a..20df2a9 100644
--- a/api_files/requirements.txt
+++ b/api_files/requirements.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ pymongo==3.10.1
 python-dotenv==0.10.5
 dnspython
 pandas==0.25.3
-requests==2.22.0
+requests==2.31.0
 nltk==3.4.5
 sklearn==0.0