diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a79be36..5d05311 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pytz==2016.6.1
 queuelib==1.4.2
 requests==2.11.1
 scons==2.3.4
-Scrapy==1.1.1
+Scrapy==1.8.1
 service-identity==16.0.0
 six==1.10.0
 Twisted==16.3.0